follow_symlinks.patch

From 99a2d34571a039bef903eeb1354000b459b6f85c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brad Ediger <brad.ediger@madriska.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:39:54 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Follow symlinks, if any, in gems/gems path

---
 lib/rubygems/installer.rb |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/rubygems/installer.rb b/lib/rubygems/installer.rb
index b587c7a..13a6f18 100644
--- a/lib/rubygems/installer.rb
+++ b/lib/rubygems/installer.rb
@@ -155,7 +155,10 @@ class Gem::Installer
 
     @spec = @format.spec
 
-    @gem_dir = File.join(@gem_home, "gems", @spec.full_name).untaint
+    gems = File.join(@gem_home, "gems")
+    gems = File.readlink(gems) while File.symlink?(gems)
+
+    @gem_dir = File.join(gems, @spec.full_name).untaint
   end
 
   ##
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1.6.2