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Description
When I install a 3rd party core (adafruit:avr
) that depends on an official Arduino core (arduino:avr
) and then I try to get the board details of one of the boards (adafruit:avr:adafruit32u4
) from the 3rd party core, I get an error:
Error getting board details: loading board data: missing platform release arduino:avr referenced by board adafruit:avr:adafruit32u4
I do not have the official board installed, I have expected it’s being installed automatically when the 3rd party is installed.
Steps to reproduce:
% rm -rf ~/Library/Arduino15 && rm -rf ~/Documents/Arduino/libraries
% ./arduino-cli version
arduino-cli Version: 0.13.0 Commit: 693a045
% ./arduino-cli core update-index --additional-urls https://adafruit.github.io/arduino-board-index/package_adafruit_index.json
Downloading missing tool builtin:ctags@5.8-arduino11...
builtin:ctags@5.8-arduino11 downloaded
Installing builtin:ctags@5.8-arduino11...
builtin:ctags@5.8-arduino11 installed
Downloading missing tool builtin:serial-discovery@1.0.0...
builtin:serial-discovery@1.0.0 downloaded
Installing builtin:serial-discovery@1.0.0...
builtin:serial-discovery@1.0.0 installed
Updating index: library_index.json downloaded
Updating index: package_index.json downloaded
Updating index: package_index.json.sig downloaded
Updating index: package_adafruit_index.json downloaded
Updating index: package_index.json downloaded
Updating index: package_index.json.sig downloaded
Updating index: package_adafruit_index.json downloaded
% ./arduino-cli core search "adafruit" --additional-urls https://adafruit.github.io/arduino-board-index/package_adafruit_index.json
ID Version Name
TeeOnArdu:avr 1.0.3 Adafruit TeeOnArdu
adafruit:avr 1.4.13 Adafruit AVR Boards
adafruit:nrf52 0.21.0 Adafruit nRF52
adafruit:samd 1.6.2 Adafruit SAMD Boards
adafruit:wiced 0.6.6 Adafruit WICED
arduino:avr 1.8.3 Arduino AVR Boards
arduino:samd 1.8.8 Arduino SAMD Boards (32-bits ARM Cortex-M0+)
% ./arduino-cli core install adafruit:avr --additional-urls https://adafruit.github.io/arduino-board-index/package_adafruit_index.json
Downloading packages...
adafruit:avr@1.4.13 downloaded
Installing adafruit:avr@1.4.13...
Configuring platform...
adafruit:avr@1.4.13 installed
% ./arduino-cli board listall --additional-urls https://adafruit.github.io/arduino-board-index/package_adafruit_index.json
Board Name FQBN
Adafruit 32u4 Breakout adafruit:avr:adafruit32u4
Adafruit Bluefruit Micro adafruit:avr:bluefruitmicro
Adafruit Circuit Playground Classic adafruit:avr:circuitplay32u4cat
Adafruit Feather 328P adafruit:avr:feather328p
Adafruit Feather 32u4 adafruit:avr:feather32u4
Adafruit Flora adafruit:avr:flora8
Adafruit Gemma (ATtiny85 @ 8MHz) adafruit:avr:gemma
Adafruit ItsyBitsy 32u4 3V 8MHz adafruit:avr:itsybitsy32u4_3V
Adafruit ItsyBitsy 32u4 5V 16MHz adafruit:avr:itsybitsy32u4_5V
Adafruit Metro adafruit:avr:metro
Adafruit Trinket (ATtiny85 @ 16MHz) adafruit:avr:trinket5
Adafruit Trinket (ATtiny85 @ 8MHz) adafruit:avr:trinket3
Pro Trinket 3V/12MHz (FTDI) adafruit:avr:protrinket3ftdi
Pro Trinket 3V/12MHz (USB) adafruit:avr:protrinket3
Pro Trinket 5V/16MHz (FTDI) adafruit:avr:protrinket5ftdi
Pro Trinket 5V/16MHz (USB) adafruit:avr:protrinket5
% ./arduino-cli board details -b adafruit:avr:adafruit32u4 --additional-urls https://adafruit.github.io/arduino-board-index/package_adafruit_index.json
Error getting board details: loading board data: missing platform release arduino:avr referenced by board adafruit:avr:adafruit32u4
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Remarks from @cmaglie:
there are two problems:
- the dependency is not "visible" until the package is installed (because is written inside the
boards.txt
). To solve this we should add a field in the package_index.json to specify the dependency- the dependency may require a package available from another 3rd party URL, so if we want to install the dependency we may need to be ready to automatically add another 3rd party index to the config
Expected behavior
I do not have to install arduino:avr
manually.
Environment
- CLI version (output of
arduino-cli version
):arduino-cli Version: 0.13.0 Commit: 693a045
- OS and platform: macOS Catalina
10.15.6 (19G2021)