node-build: definition not found: 16.15.0 when installing lts

[lestephane]

If someone can tell me where to add the definition, I'll gladly file a PR.

But, should there not have a fallback mechanism to the immediately preceding version
when someone tries to install an lts alias so new that there is no definition for it yet?

$ asdf direnv local nodejs lts
▶ asdf plugin-add nodejs # ...  Plugin named nodejs already added
✔️
▶ asdf install nodejs lts # ...  Installing alias lts as 16.15.0
Trying to update node-build... ok
node-build: definition not found: 16.15.0
Could not install version 16.15.0
❗️ Failed with status 1

[fschoenfeldt]

I told my colleague "asdf is way easier than node installer" and stumbled upon this error on setting it up on her pc.

thanks for reporting, now using a pinned version.

[AlJohri]

Just got the same error:

❯ asdf version
v0.10.0-77fd510

❯ git -C ~/.asdf/plugins/nodejs show
commit f9957f3f256ebbb3fdeebcaed5082ad305222be6 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Merge: 364c078 1365f37
Author: Augusto Moura <me@augustomoura.com>
Date:   Mon Mar 14 15:03:28 2022 -0300

    Merge pull request #292 from burnettk/filter-list-all-to-ensure-we-can-install-them

    if a version is not installable via node-build, make sure it is not in list-all

❯ asdf install nodejs lts-gallium
Installing alias lts-gallium as 16.15.0
Trying to update node-build... ok
node-build: definition not found: 16.15.0
Could not install version 16.15.0

[AlJohri]

Here's the PR waiting to be merged: nodenv/node-build#750

[AlJohri]

Looks like this issue occurred before as well when version 16.14.1 was released: #294

[augustobmoura]

It's the same problem that I talked on #294 (comment). I will try to push a better solution today

[AlJohri]

(for the record, looks like this same issue occurred here #283 on release of 16.14.0. it was released on 2/8 and the user opened the issue on 2/9)

Thank you for looking into it @augustobmoura!!

[augustobmoura]

It should be fixed on master now. We can't install 16.15 until nodenv/node-build#750 is merged. What the PR does is install the previous lts when resolving aliases. In this case, it's the version 16.14.2

[sagarpadiya6]

@augustobmoura its still not fixed. I am still. facing the same issue

[augustobmoura]

@augustobmoura its still not fixed. I am still. facing the same issue

Did you update both asdf and the asdf-node plugin?
Try running:

asdf update && asdf plugin-update --all

[codethief]

I just ran into this issue today: Using a freshly installed asdf 0.11.3, I run asdf plugin add nodejs and afterwards attempt to asdf install the lts-gallium that's specified in my .tool-versions. This yields:

$ asdf install
Trying to update node-build...
 ok
node-build: definition not found: 16

For lts-hydrogen (Node v18) I get the same result. For now I have hard-coded the version number in my .toolbox-versions and this seems to work.

[jdx]

they got rid of the ability to use aliases like lts-hydrogen in .tool-versions files in #348 as this wasn't functionality they intended to support