Gem::Package::Old

The format class knows the guts of the ancient .gem file format and provides the capability to read such ancient gems.

Please pretend this doesn’t exist.

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new(gem, security_policy) click to toggle source

Creates a new old-format package reader for gem. Old-format packages cannot be written.

 
               # File rubygems/package/old.rb, line 22
def initialize(gem, security_policy)
  require 'fileutils'
  require 'zlib'
  Gem.load_yaml

  @contents        = nil
  @gem             = gem
  @security_policy = security_policy
  @spec            = nil
end

Public Instance Methods

contents() click to toggle source

A list of file names contained in this gem

 
               # File rubygems/package/old.rb, line 36
def contents
  verify

  return @contents if @contents

  @gem.with_read_io do |io|
    read_until_dashes io # spec
    header = file_list io

    @contents = header.map { |file| file['path'] }
  end
end

extract_files(destination_dir) click to toggle source

Extracts the files in this package into destination_dir

 
               # File rubygems/package/old.rb, line 52
def extract_files(destination_dir)
  verify

  errstr = "Error reading files from gem"

  @gem.with_read_io do |io|
    read_until_dashes io # spec
    header = file_list io
    raise Gem::Exception, errstr unless header

    header.each do |entry|
      full_name = entry['path']

      destination = install_location full_name, destination_dir

      file_data = String.new

      read_until_dashes io do |line|
        file_data << line
      end

      file_data = file_data.strip.unpack("m")[0]
      file_data = Zlib::Inflate.inflate file_data

      raise Gem::Package::FormatError, "#{full_name} in #{@gem} is corrupt" if
        file_data.length != entry['size'].to_i

      FileUtils.rm_rf destination

      FileUtils.mkdir_p File.dirname(destination), :mode => dir_mode && 0755

      File.open destination, 'wb', file_mode(entry['mode']) do |out|
        out.write file_data
      end

      verbose destination
    end
  end
rescue Zlib::DataError
  raise Gem::Exception, errstr
end

spec() click to toggle source

The specification for this gem

 
               # File rubygems/package/old.rb, line 133
def spec
  verify

  return @spec if @spec

  yaml = String.new

  @gem.with_read_io do |io|
    skip_ruby io
    read_until_dashes io do |line|
      yaml << line
    end
  end

  begin
    @spec = Gem::Specification.from_yaml yaml
  rescue YAML::SyntaxError
    raise Gem::Exception, "Failed to parse gem specification out of gem file"
  end
rescue ArgumentError
  raise Gem::Exception, "Failed to parse gem specification out of gem file"
end

verify() click to toggle source

Raises an exception if a security policy that verifies data is active. Old format gems cannot be verified as signed.

 
               # File rubygems/package/old.rb, line 160
def verify
  return true unless @security_policy

  raise Gem::Security::Exception,
        'old format gems do not contain signatures and cannot be verified' if
    @security_policy.verify_data

  true
end

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