[Bug] Dependency from specific bucket from a specific version is not honored

[bharatvaj]

Bug Report

Current Behavior

When using bucket/package@version for depends, scoop always installs the most recent version, ignoring the @version part

Expected Behavior

Install the specified version

[HUMORCE]

It's expected behavior for Scoop.

Package manager like homebrew created specified version for manifest and named as <manuifest>@<version> are always available, but Scoop is NOT.

[bharatvaj]

Package manager like homebrew created specified version for manifest and named as <manuifest>@<version> are always available, but Scoop is NOT.

From my understanding, scoop changes the $version part of the manifest file and attempts an installation when invoked from the command line with scoop install [email protected]

WARN  Given version (2.5.1) does not match manifest (4.0.23)
WARN  Attempting to generate manifest for 'groovy' (2.5.1)
Autoupdating groovy
Searching hash for apache-groovy-binary-2.5.1.zip in https://groovy.jfrog.io/artifactory/dist-release-local/groovy-zips/apache-groovy-binary-2.5.1.zip.sha256
Found: 7a7c1215620047f36ae66c8ca396864aa602cc90f7238851cd8714acb41418ff using Extract Mode
Writing updated groovy manifest
Installing 'groovy' (2.5.1) [64bit] from 'C:\Users\bhara\scoop\workspace\groovy.json'
...

I was expecting the same when specifying [email protected] in depends in the manifest file. Hence, posted it as a bug.

Alternative Suggestion
Since changing $version may not work reliably every time, can we start tagging merges and autoupdates in individual buckets?

git tag $pkgname-$version

And obtain during install with,

git --no-pager show $pkgname-$version:bucket/$pkgname.json

[HUMORCE]

From my understanding, scoop changes the $version part of the manifest file and attempts an installation when invoked from the command line with scoop install [email protected]

Yes, but the source of the installation will mark as <auto-generated>, Scoop cannot detect the dependency main/groovy are installed or not.

❯ scoop list groovy
Installed apps matching 'groovy':

Name   Version Source           Updated             Info
----   ------- ------           -------             ----
groovy 2.5.1   <auto-generated> 2024-09-24 01:03:29

Since changing $version may not work reliably every time, can we start tagging merges and autoupdates in individual buckets?

For stability reasons, you should copy the manifest then fix its version/urls and remove autoupdate instead of depending on a manifest that auto-generated may not work.

Related:

• https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Versions
• [FeatureRequest] Previous Version Alternative using git history #3894