Wrong error message when pod install failed due to spec not found in local repo clone.

[ainopara]

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What did you do?

I added .travis.yml to my open source project, travis CI failed when it was running pod install.
it say:

[!] Due to the previous naïve CocoaPods resolver, you were using a pre-release version of `ReactiveCocoa`, without explicitly asking for a pre-release version, which now leads to a conflict. Please decide to either use that pre-release version by adding the version requirement to your Podfile (e.g. `pod 'ReactiveCocoa', '= 5.0.0-rc.1'`) or revert to a stable version by running `pod update ReactiveCocoa`.

when my Podfile writes

pod 'ReactiveCocoa', '~> 5.0.0-rc.1'

What did you expect to happen?

The actually reason for the failure is pod repo needs update (i.e. there is no podspec for the 5.0.0-rc.1 version in travis CI's image), so CocoaPods should tell me there is no corresponding podspec in local clone of CocoaPods/Spec repo rather than asking for me to change Podfile.

What happened instead?

As said above, it say:

[!] Due to the previous naïve CocoaPods resolver, you were using a pre-release version of `ReactiveCocoa`, without explicitly asking for a pre-release version, which now leads to a conflict. Please decide to either use that pre-release version by adding the version requirement to your Podfile (e.g. `pod 'ReactiveCocoa', '= 5.0.0-rc.1'`) or revert to a stable version by running `pod update ReactiveCocoa`.

CocoaPods Environment

I have tried CocoaPods 1.1.1 and CocoaOods 1.2.0.beta.3, and they have same issue.

Project that demonstrates the issue

travis CI Log: failure
travis CI Log: pod install succeed when pod repo update executed

[benasher44]

@ainopara thanks for bringing this up and attaching logs! This definitely sounds like bug. I've labeled this issue appropriately, and hopefully someone can look at fixing this.

[stale]

There hasn't been any activity on this issue recently. Due to the high number of incoming GitHub notifications, we have to clean some of the old issues, as many of them have already been resolved with the latest updates.

[stale]

This issue will be auto-closed because there hasn't been any activity for a few months. Feel free to open a new one if you still experience this problem 👍

[DenTelezhkin]

This definitely still happens on CocoaPods 1.3.1. What's even more confusing, is error message suggests to specifically set beta release in Podfile, even if it IS specified explicitly in Podfile.

Only after googling and seeing this issue i understood that local specs repo simply does not have this prerelease podspec and i need to run pod repo update