Does an old version on mime-types have to depend on mime-types-data gem?

[kirillzhiganov]

Hi,

We have to stick to an old ruby version (1.8.xx) due to some chef dependencies in the project.

While trying to install rest-client gem (1.6.7) we have to install mime-types (we use 1.17.2) and recently it begun demanding mime-types-data gem, which cannot be installed on our ruby version.

As far as I understand it, when using mime-types gem version 1.17.2 there shouldn't be any dependency on the new gem mime-types-data.

For us installation fails because an unnecessary gem (mime-types-data) is included as dependency for mime-types.

Can it be fixed or avoided somehow?

Thank you in advance

[kirillzhiganov]

• install version 1.17.2 of package mime-types
  * gem_package[rest-client] action install[2016-01-14T15:03:41+01:00] INFO: Processing gem_package[rest-client] action install (line 14)

     ================================================================================
     Error executing action `install` on resource 'gem_package[rest-client]'
     ================================================================================
  
     Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed
     ------------------------------------
     Expected process to exit with [0], but received '1'
     ---- Begin output of /usr/bin/gem install rest-client -q --no-rdoc --no-ri -v "1.6.7" ----
     STDOUT: 
     STDERR: ERROR:  Error installing rest-client:
      mime-types-data requires Ruby version >= 2.0.
     ---- End output of /usr/bin/gem install rest-client -q --no-rdoc --no-ri -v "1.6.7" ----
     Ran /usr/bin/gem install rest-client -q --no-rdoc --no-ri -v "1.6.7" returned 1
  
     Resource Declaration:
     ---------------------
     # In /tmp/kitchen/cookbooks/project/recipes/_ruby.rb
  
      14: gem_package "rest-client" do
      15:   version "1.6.7"
      16: end
      17: 
  
     Compiled Resource:
     ------------------
     # Declared in /tmp/kitchen/cookbooks/project/recipes/_ruby.rb:14:in `from_file'
  
     gem_package("rest-client") do
       provider Chef::Provider::Package::Rubygems
       action :install
       retries 0
       retry_delay 2
       guard_interpreter :default
       package_name "rest-client"
       version "1.6.7"
       timeout 900
       cookbook_name :"prefill-system-test"
       recipe_name "_ruby"
       gem_binary "/usr/bin/gem"
     end
  

[halostatue]

mime-types 1.x has not been updated in several years and is no longer supported. There is absolutely no dependency on mime-types-data introduced. The dependency issue you are experiencing is because your install of rest-client is not finding an installed version of mime-types that matches its requirements.

My primary recommendation is to figure out how to upgrade to a supported version of Ruby (Ruby 1.8.7 was EOLed several years ago, and even Ruby 2.0 is hitting EOL next month).

I don’t use Chef, so I don’t know how to resolve this problem, but I would suggest that you consider having a gem_package clause the first installs a mime-types version that your system supports.

[kirillzhiganov]

mime-types version 1.17.2 was installed just before rest-client installation called. You could see it in my second comment where I put the log. And according to rest-client gem description version 1.6.7 demands mime-type version >=1.15

But still it goes for mime-types-data.

[halostatue]

Unfortunately, I cannot help you as the problem is not in mime-types. This is, as far as I can tell, a problem with Chef and/or an older version of RubyGems on an unsupported version of Ruby. mime-types 1.17.2 was released in October 2011; the last ever version of mime-types 1 was released in November 2013. The dependencies for mime-types 1.x has not changed in that time period.

[kirillzhiganov]

Ok, thank you for trying. We will look for a solution