[cpackget] Installing a new pack skipping version check

[jeromecoutant]

Hi

During some development phase, we could need to force to install a pack even if the version is not the latest.

I would like to avoid this kind of error:

$ cpackget add STMicroelectronics.xxx
...
D: Reading pdsc from file "csfBBsSQAr\STMicroelectronics.xxx.pdsc"
D: Making sure xxx is the latest release in STMicroelectronics.xxx.pdsc
E: The pack's pdsc (STMicroelectronics.xxx.pdsc) has no release tag matching version "xxx"
E: pack version not found in the pdsc file

Proposition is to add a new option: --no-version-check ?

$ cpackget add -h
...
Flags:
  -a, --agree-embedded-license       agrees with the embedded license of the pack
  -x, --extract-embedded-license     extracts the embedded license of the pack and aborts the installation
  -F, --force-reinstall              forces installation of an already installed pack
  -h, --help                         help for add
  -n, --no-dependencies              do not install package dependencies
  --no-version-check                 do not check release tag
  -f, --packs-list-filename string   specifies a file listing packs urls, one per line

Then check in https://github.com/Open-CMSIS-Pack/cpackget/blob/main/cmd/installer/pack.go#L186
is skipped.

Thx

@LMESTM @PierreLeCorre

[jkrech]

@jeromecoutant,
FYI: the new maintainer of the cpackget repo is @thorstendb-ARM

Sorry, I do not understand your problem yet. Note that this is usually not an arbitrary version check that can be skipped, at least not, if the task is to install a public pack.

Could you maybe refine your command line, what does xxx include? Is it just the name of the pack or also a version?

cpackget add STMicroelectronics.xxx

cpackget add Keil.ARM_Compiler

checks whether any version of this pack is already installed. If not it installs the latest available version.

cpackget add Keil.ARM_Compiler.1.0.0

checks whether version 1.0.0 is listed in the <releases> section of the pdsc file in the .Web folder of CMSIS_PACK_ROOT. If it exists it will attempt to download and install this pack version.

cpackget add Keil.ARM_Compiler.0.0.1

Version 0.0.1 does not exist in the Keil.ARM_Compiler.pdsc file in the .Web folder, therefore the tool will raise an error:

E: pack version not found in the pdsc file

But you seem to have another use case for getting this error message.

Does the version information in the pack file (Keil.ARM_Compiler..pack) not match the version attribute of the top entry tag of the contained pdsc file (Keil.ARM_Compiler.pdsc)?

[jeromecoutant]

FYI: the new maintainer of the cpackget repo is @thorstendb-ARM

Note the assignment is automatic, I didn't choose any one :-)

About my issue, we are releasing a pack version with several steps.
At each step, pack version is a little bit different, but internal pdsc content is the same (the final version).