users function not working on Julia v1.7.1

[simonschoelly]

There seems to be something broken with the users function with PkgDeps v0.6.2 and Julia v1.7.1. I can reproduce the issues with my local Julia installation,, as well as with the official julia:1.7.1 docker image. In contrast they do not occur with the julia:1.6.0 docker image.

julia> using PkgDeps

julia> users("Flux")
ERROR: ArgumentError: Collection is empty, must contain exactly 1 element
Stacktrace:
 [1] only
   @ ./iterators.jl:1354 [inlined]
 [2] _get_pkg_uuid(pkg_name::String, registry_name::String; depots::Vector{String})
   @ PkgDeps ~/.julia/packages/PkgDeps/afXc8/src/utilities.jl:101
 [3] _get_pkg_uuid
   @ ~/.julia/packages/PkgDeps/afXc8/src/utilities.jl:101 [inlined]
 [4] #users#18
   @ ~/.julia/packages/PkgDeps/afXc8/src/PkgDeps.jl:112 [inlined]
 [5] users (repeats 2 times)
   @ ~/.julia/packages/PkgDeps/afXc8/src/PkgDeps.jl:112 [inlined]
 [6] top-level scope
   @ REPL[7]:1

julia> users(Base.UUID("587475ba-b771-5e3f-ad9e-33799f191a9c"))  # UUID of Flux.jl
String[]

Tests fail as well:

(@v1.7) pkg> test PkgDeps
     Testing PkgDeps
      Status `/tmp/jl_Wwxymf/Project.toml`
  [34da2185] Compat v3.41.0
  [839e9fc8] PkgDeps v0.6.2
  [44cfe95a] Pkg `@stdlib/Pkg`
  [3fa0cd96] REPL `@stdlib/REPL`
  [fa267f1f] TOML `@stdlib/TOML`
  [8dfed614] Test `@stdlib/Test`
  [cf7118a7] UUIDs `@stdlib/UUIDs`
      Status `/tmp/jl_Wwxymf/Manifest.toml`
  [34da2185] Compat v3.41.0
  [839e9fc8] PkgDeps v0.6.2
  [0dad84c5] ArgTools `@stdlib/ArgTools`
  [56f22d72] Artifacts `@stdlib/Artifacts`
  [2a0f44e3] Base64 `@stdlib/Base64`
  [ade2ca70] Dates `@stdlib/Dates`
  [8bb1440f] DelimitedFiles `@stdlib/DelimitedFiles`
  [8ba89e20] Distributed `@stdlib/Distributed`
  [f43a241f] Downloads `@stdlib/Downloads`
  [b77e0a4c] InteractiveUtils `@stdlib/InteractiveUtils`
  [b27032c2] LibCURL `@stdlib/LibCURL`
  [76f85450] LibGit2 `@stdlib/LibGit2`
  [8f399da3] Libdl `@stdlib/Libdl`
  [37e2e46d] LinearAlgebra `@stdlib/LinearAlgebra`
  [56ddb016] Logging `@stdlib/Logging`
  [d6f4376e] Markdown `@stdlib/Markdown`
  [a63ad114] Mmap `@stdlib/Mmap`
  [ca575930] NetworkOptions `@stdlib/NetworkOptions`
  [44cfe95a] Pkg `@stdlib/Pkg`
  [de0858da] Printf `@stdlib/Printf`
  [3fa0cd96] REPL `@stdlib/REPL`
  [9a3f8284] Random `@stdlib/Random`
  [ea8e919c] SHA `@stdlib/SHA`
  [9e88b42a] Serialization `@stdlib/Serialization`
  [1a1011a3] SharedArrays `@stdlib/SharedArrays`
  [6462fe0b] Sockets `@stdlib/Sockets`
  [2f01184e] SparseArrays `@stdlib/SparseArrays`
  [10745b16] Statistics `@stdlib/Statistics`
  [fa267f1f] TOML `@stdlib/TOML`
  [a4e569a6] Tar `@stdlib/Tar`
  [8dfed614] Test `@stdlib/Test`
  [cf7118a7] UUIDs `@stdlib/UUIDs`
  [4ec0a83e] Unicode `@stdlib/Unicode`
  [e66e0078] CompilerSupportLibraries_jll `@stdlib/CompilerSupportLibraries_jll`
  [deac9b47] LibCURL_jll `@stdlib/LibCURL_jll`
  [29816b5a] LibSSH2_jll `@stdlib/LibSSH2_jll`
  [c8ffd9c3] MbedTLS_jll `@stdlib/MbedTLS_jll`
  [14a3606d] MozillaCACerts_jll `@stdlib/MozillaCACerts_jll`
  [4536629a] OpenBLAS_jll `@stdlib/OpenBLAS_jll`
  [83775a58] Zlib_jll `@stdlib/Zlib_jll`
  [8e850b90] libblastrampoline_jll `@stdlib/libblastrampoline_jll`
  [8e850ede] nghttp2_jll `@stdlib/nghttp2_jll`
  [3f19e933] p7zip_jll `@stdlib/p7zip_jll`
     Testing Running tests...
exception: Test Failed at /root/.julia/packages/PkgDeps/afXc8/test/runtests.jl:44
  Expression: PkgDeps._get_pkg_uuid("PkgDepsFakePackage", "General")
    Expected: PackageNotInRegistry
      Thrown: ArgumentError
Stacktrace:
 [1] macro expansion
   @ ~/.julia/packages/PkgDeps/afXc8/test/runtests.jl:44 [inlined]
 [2] macro expansion
   @ /usr/local/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.7/Test/src/Test.jl:1283 [inlined]
 [3] macro expansion
   @ ~/.julia/packages/PkgDeps/afXc8/test/runtests.jl:44 [inlined]
 [4] macro expansion
   @ /usr/local/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.7/Test/src/Test.jl:1283 [inlined]
 [5] macro expansion
   @ ~/.julia/packages/PkgDeps/afXc8/test/runtests.jl:28 [inlined]
 [6] macro expansion
   @ /usr/local/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.7/Test/src/Test.jl:1283 [inlined]
 [7] top-level scope
   @ ~/.julia/packages/PkgDeps/afXc8/test/runtests.jl:14
Test Summary:                   | Pass  Fail  Total
internal functions              |   16     1     17
  _get_pkg_name                 |    2            2
  _get_pkg_uuid                 |    5     1      6
    name to uuid                |    2            2
    Same name in two registries |    2            2
    exception                   |    1     1      2
  _get_latest_version           |    1            1
  _find_alternative_packages    |    1            1
  `_find_latest_pkg_entry`      |    7            7
ERROR: LoadError: Some tests did not pass: 16 passed, 1 failed, 0 errored, 0 broken.
in expression starting at /root/.julia/packages/PkgDeps/afXc8/test/runtests.jl:13
ERROR: Package PkgDeps errored during testing

[simonschoelly]

From Julia v1.7.0 NEWS.md:

Registries downloaded from the Pkg Server (not git) are no longer uncompressed into files but instead read directly from the compressed tarball into memory. This improves performance on filesystems which do not handle a large number of files well. To turn this feature off, set the environment variable JULIA_PKG_UNPACK_REGISTRY=true.

It seems as if the registries directory for the General repository does not contain a General subdirectory anymore, but rather a compressed General.tar.gz file. Therefore the reachable_registries function does not find the General registry for Julia >= v1.7.0, while it does on older Julia versions.

[ericphanson]

as a workaround, one could clone General themselves, or mess with the env variables to get Pkg to do it. I think the long term solution is to help get https://github.com/GunnarFarneback/RegistryInstances.jl going as a stable interface in front of Pkg internals and then rely on that.

(FYI, PackageAnalyzer.jl and similar packages also face this same issue)