Error installing 2.5.8 with Arduino CLI - can't find dependencies

[stonehippo]

HI @SpenceKonde, I use the Arduino CLI in addition to the IDE. I realize arduino-cli may not be a common target, but I wanted to let you know about an issue that I've seen trying to update to 2.5.

Normally, to update a core in Arduino CLI, you'd do something like this:

arduino-cli update
arduino-cli upgrade

These commands pull the latest board manager updates, then applies them. Pretty simple. With 2.5.8, the following error is coming up:

Downloading megaTinyCore:[email protected]...
Error upgrading: Can't find dependencies for platform megaTinyCore:[email protected]: getting tool dependencies for platform megaTinyCore:[email protected]: tool version 6.3.0-arduino17or18 not found

I've run into this on both MacOS and Raspberry Pi OS (Linux/ARM). I worked around it on MacOS by installing the update via Arduino IDE.

Addendum: As I was writing this, I noticed that after install 2.5.8 via the Arduino IDE, it's showing what looks like a related error:

Index error: could not find referenced tool name=avrdude version=6.3.0-arduino17or18 packager=arduino

[SpenceKonde]

OH god fucking damnit
I will do a second emergency release, I screwed up the bloody json file.

[stonehippo]

Thanks! And thanks for all of the work you put into this core…it's an awesome resource.

[SpenceKonde]

Let's see if 2.5.9 is viable... that's 9 emergency releases since 2.5.0

[SpenceKonde]

Fix is in board manager.

[stonehippo]

2.5.9 seems to work on Raspberry Pi OS and MacOS. On the latter, I found that it wouldn't update with arduino-cli (in fact, I could even uninstall it with the command line). I worked around it by running the update in the IDE, so 🤷🏾.

Thanks for jumping on this one, and for all the hard work you do.

[stonehippo]

Hi @SpenceKonde, seems like the Arduino IDE is still throwing this error:

Index error: could not find referenced tool name=avrdude version=6.3.0-arduino17or18 packager=arduino

I think this is because it's still trying to parse the bad 2.5.8 entry. When you have a chance, no rush, since this isn't a functional issue, but could you update the index file with the correct packager for that entry? I don't think this needs a new release at all, just an edit to index file.

[SpenceKonde]

See my releasescripts repo issue#37, we are trying to come up with a solution that minimizes breakage.

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