On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 at 16:03, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 10:27 AM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 at 14:53, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 9:29 AM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > There are a lot of older versions of Gems around - maybe time to do a > > > > cleanup? > > > > > > It would take a bit of refactoring, but there is code in the Rakefile > > > that might be useful. On my ubuntu machine, I need to prefix gem > > > install commands with `sudo` and having `rake udpate` iterate through > > > the gemfiles and prompting me many times grew old fast so I added a > > > check to see if Bundler.bundle_path.writable? and if not I would build > > > a single gemfile that collected up all the dependencies. Having a > > > 'rake gem:clean' or equivalent task that would do this followed > > > immediately by an update might be useful. The update is required as > > > there are rare cases where different apps use different gems (until > > > recently, active_support required an old version of tzinfo, for > > > example). > > > > I don't think that is the case at present. > > True, but it won't always be the case. > > > I just did a cleanup on the Docker build, and a subsequent update did > > not install anything. > > > > Is a separate task needed? > > Why not just always do a cleanup just before an update? > > Routinely uninstalling a gem that is still needed (like was the case > with the tzinfo gem) will likely cause user visible failures.
If it is done just before an update then the time window during which the required gem version is missing should be quite short. But if that is unacceptable I guess it would be possible to parse the versions installed by the update process and work out which others are not needed. > > The update might then introduce new versions, but next time around > > they should be cleaned up. > > > > > Of course, all this will be cleaned up when infra supports Ubuntu > > > 22.04 and we move to whimsy-vm7. > > > > That will result in an initial cleanup, but versions will continue to > > build up over time, so cleanup will still be needed. > > > > > - Sam Ruby > > - Sam Ruby
