How to only keep the latest version of a package

Question

How to only keep the latest version of a package

Closed this issue 9 years ago · 7 comments

Is there a way to specify the items in define_source so that only the latest version of a package is kept?

For example, if I write

gem 'bigdecimal'

then gemirro will fetch multiple versions of the same gem. However, I'm only interested in the latest version synchronized from upstream source.

Answer 1 · 2015-11-24T01:03:58.000Z

By the way, I saw it's possible to add a requirement such >= 1.0.0 for a gem. But I guess this type of version specification is not quite general since one has to look up the latest version number one gem after another. It'd be great if the requirement can have a form like latest or newest.

Answer 2 · 2015-12-03T13:03:14.000Z

Hi, I'm sorry, I was really busy lately.
In fact, version parameter are use for ::Gem::Indexer and many other RubyGems classes, the only way to retrieve only the latest version is to write exactly what you did in your first message.
I will try to investigate on this issue as soon as possible.

Regards

Answer 3 · 2015-12-03T13:24:00.000Z

Thank you for ack. Do you mean

gem 'bigdecimal'

should fetch only the latest version but currently doesn't?

Answer 4 · 2015-12-03T13:33:04.000Z

No,

gem 'bigdecimal'

must fetch all versions, but I imagine more something like this:

gem 'bigdecimal', :latest
# or
gem 'bigdecimal', :newest

Answer 5 · 2015-12-04T14:41:30.000Z

I tried with many gems and seems to work now with the latest commit ;)

Answer 6 · 2015-12-04T14:41:49.000Z

I will release a new version in few hours

Answer 7 · 2015-12-04T16:50:14.000Z

I close this issue, don't hesitate to create a bug if something wrong occured.
Regards