librarian stopped working with latest minitar v1 release

[der-eismann]

It turns out that the puppet_forge gem has a dependency on minitar without a version requirement on it (https://github.com/puppetlabs/forge-ruby/blob/main/puppet_forge.gemspec#L26) and is still using the old archive/tar/minitar namespace. However a few days ago minitar had it's v1 major release, abandoning the old namespace, causing issues with librarian:

$ librarian-puppet install --clean
<internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require': cannot load such file -- archive/tar/minitar (LoadError)
	from <internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require'
	from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/puppet_forge-4.1.0/lib/puppet_forge/tar/mini.rb:2:in `<top (required)>'
	from <internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require'
	from <internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require'
	from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/puppet_forge-4.1.0/lib/puppet_forge/tar.rb:4:in `<class:Tar>'
	from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/puppet_forge-4.1.0/lib/puppet_forge/tar.rb:3:in `<module:PuppetForge>'
	from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/puppet_forge-4.1.0/lib/puppet_forge/tar.rb:2:in `<top (required)>'
	from <internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require'
	from <internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require'
	from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/puppet_forge-4.1.0/lib/puppet_forge.rb:21:in `<module:PuppetForge>'
	from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/puppet_forge-4.1.0/lib/puppet_forge.rb:3:in `<top (required)>'
	from <internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require'
	from <internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require'
	from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/librarian-puppet-5.0.0/lib/librarian/puppet/source/forge/repo_v3.rb:2:in `<top (required)>'
	from <internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require'
	from <internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require'
	from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/librarian-puppet-5.0.0/lib/librarian/puppet/source/forge.rb:4:in `<top (required)>'
	from <internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require'
	from <internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require'
	from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/librarian-puppet-5.0.0/lib/librarian/puppet/source.rb:3:in `<top (required)>'
	from <internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require'
	from <internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require'
	from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/librarian-puppet-5.0.0/lib/librarian/puppet/dsl.rb:3:in `<top (required)>'
	from <internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require'
	from <internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require'
	from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/librarian-puppet-5.0.0/lib/librarian/puppet/environment.rb:2:in `<top (required)>'
	from <internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require'
	from <internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require'
	from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/librarian-puppet-5.0.0/lib/librarian/puppet/extension.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
	from <internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require'
	from <internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require'
	from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/librarian-puppet-5.0.0/lib/librarian/puppet.rb:4:in `<top (required)>'
	from <internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require'
	from <internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require'
	from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/librarian-puppet-5.0.0/lib/librarian/puppet/cli.rb:4:in `<top (required)>'
	from <internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require'
	from <internal:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:86:in `require'
	from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/librarian-puppet-5.0.0/bin/librarian-puppet:6:in `<top (required)>'
	from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/librarian-puppet:25:in `load'
	from /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/librarian-puppet:25:in `<main>'

I opened puppetlabs/forge-ruby#119 to fix this temporarily, however librarian isn't even using forge-ruby v5 and I'm not sure if/when this change will land. Maybe this helps someone else or somebody at puppet can speed things up a bit, it feels like the whole ecosystem is pretty outdated unfortunately.

My workaround so far:

gem install --no-document librarian-puppet -v '~> 5'
gem uninstall minitar -I
gem install --no-document minitar -v '0.12'

[ekohl]

I opened puppetlabs/forge-ruby#119 to fix this temporarily

This was merged and released

however librarian isn't even using forge-ruby v5 and I'm not sure if/when this change will land

There was 4bf2503 (which has a wrong summary). Let's create a new release that includes it.

[teluq-pbrideau]

Any chance for this new release of librarian-puppet on rubygems.org soon?

[parkr]

+1, I am having this issue as well. To work around it, I downgraded to minitar 0.12.1.

[der-eismann]

@bastelfreak can you tag a new release that includes 4bf2503? It's been over 3 months now where librarian is straight up broken without a workaround.

[bastelfreak]

Hi,
as you can see in #123, we currently don't have a working CI. And I don't have the time right now to fix this. If you can take a look, we can make a new release afterwards.

[parkr]

@der-eismann FWIW I downgraded minitar to pre-1.0 and this worked for me to get librarian working great again.