how to disable update check in when using docusaurus cli?

[quinn-dougherty]

I'm working on a nix deployment with hercules, and I'm blocked by the update check

       > ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
       > │             @docusaurus/core update check failed              │
       > │              Try running with sudo or get access              │
       > │             to the local update config store via              │
       > │ sudo chown -R $USER:$(id -gn $USER) /homeless-shelter/.config │
       > └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
 error Command failed with exit code 1.

(nix sandboxes don't have internet access)

(EDIT: this is not the thing that's blocking me, but I'm still curious how to disable)

[slorber]

We don't have a way to disable this atm and it has never been a blocker.

If this is annoying, we could add a secret docusaurus env variable to disable it, but I'd rather advise you to double check your /homeless-shelter/.config folder permission in the first place, this error is not here for nothing and I'm not sure we want to add an env variable just for one user complaining about a non-blocking edge-case.

Can't you just ensure current user has access to /homeless-shelter/.config?

(nix sandboxes don't have internet access)

The update checker shouldn't print anything in case network is not accessible: it is more related to FS permissions.

See also related packages code:

• https://github.com/yeoman/update-notifier/blob/311557ec77dbb35ea130530639b0da7bbb254897/update-notifier.js#L73
• https://github.com/yeoman/configstore

[quinn-dougherty]

indeed, the user of the nix sandbox can't access /homeless-shelter/.config, (which I think is related to all the SSR stuff failing to build?).

[slorber]

indeed, the user of the nix sandbox can't access /homeless-shelter/.config, (which I think is related to all the SSR stuff failing to build?).

Sorry but I have no idea what you are talking about 😅 can you explain why you came up with that conclusion?

[quinn-dougherty]

wild guess--- the peculiar thing about nix sandboxes is file permissions, and that's the difference between building in this sandbox and building in my regular OS.

Here's the information. I'd be thrilled if you recognized any of these messages!

 yarn run v1.22.18
 warning Skipping preferred cache folder "/homeless-shelter/.cache/yarn" because it is not writable.
 warning Selected the next writable cache folder in the list, will be "/build/.yarn-cache-1000".
 $ docusaurus build
 warning Cannot find a suitable global folder. Tried these: "/usr/local, /homeless-shelter/.yarn"
[INFO] [en] Creating an optimized production build...

✔ Client
  

✖ Server
  Compiled with some errors in 40.35s

[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /404.html.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /blog.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /blog/archive.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /blog/overview.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /blog/squiggle-talk.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /blog/technical-overview.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /playground.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Api/Date.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Api/Dictionary.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Api/Dist.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Api/DistPointSet.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Api/DistSampleSet.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Api/Duration.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Api/Function.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Api/List.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Api/Math.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Api/Number.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Discussions/Bugs.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Discussions/Future-Features.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Discussions/Gallery.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Discussions/Three-Formats-Of-Distributions.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Guides/DistributionCreation.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Guides/Functions.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Guides/Gotchas.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Guides/Language.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Integrations.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Internal/Grammar.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Internal/ImportIntoMdx.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Internal/Invariants.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Internal/Processing-Confidence-Intervals.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /docs/Overview.
[ERROR] Docusaurus server-side rendering could not render static page with path /.


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[ERROR] Unable to build website for locale en.
[ERROR] Error: Failed to compile with errors.
    at /nix/store/zrdcfirzgl01c3grh2fmsvaz73q8f9l9-squiggle-website-modules-0.3.0/node_modules/@docusaurus/core/lib/webpack/utils.js:180:24
    at /nix/store/zrdcfirzgl01c3grh2fmsvaz73q8f9l9-squiggle-website-modules-0.3.0/node_modules/webpack/lib/MultiCompiler.js:554:14
    at processQueueWorker (/nix/store/zrdcfirzgl01c3grh2fmsvaz73q8f9l9-squiggle-website-modules-0.3.0/node_modules/webpack/lib/MultiCompiler.js:491:6)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:77:11)
[INFO] Docusaurus version: 2.0.1

[slorber]

I don't think the 2 issues (update notifier + SSR errors) are related, but at the end of the day, Docusaurus can only work well if you give it the ability to write to the file-system 😅