nimble pulls HEAD instead of latest tag

[fryorcraken]

I have noticed that nimble pulls the HEAD commit for a dependency instead of the latest tag.

I expect the latest tag to be pulled when no requirements are set on a version.

The faulty behaviour has been consistent in a GitHub CI. But inconsistent locally.

Yes, I was just able to reproduce locally so I can provide more info (after deleting ~/.nimble/pkgs2/* a few times).

The nimble file is as follow (truncated to what matters):

# Package

version       = "0.1.0"
author        = "fryorcraken"
description   = "Test Waku with nimble"
license       = "MIT"
srcDir        = "src"
bin           = @["example"]


# Dependencies

requires "chronos"
requires "results"
requires "waku"

I then install a specific waku commit:

nimble install waku@#375dc3deca2f3063d4bb74ad0d3f180bd9047b1b

CI

The symptom in the CI is as follows:

/home/runner/.nimble/pkgs2/websock-0.2.0-614476e24cad4fe27ee05d29c2b7ea3e4674e3c2/websock/frame.nim(12, 11) Error: cannot open file: pkg/stew/results

This is unexpected because while indeed stew/results was removed with a recent commit from nim-stew.

It is still present in the latest tag, here.

When running nimble --verbose install "waku@#375dc3deca2f3063d4bb74ad0d3f180bd9047b1b"
I can only see it saying it is pulling the latest tag for stew:

2025-09-16T07:23:32.4458222Z Downloading https://github.com/status-im/nim-stew using git
2025-09-16T07:23:32.6044154Z     Cloning latest tagged version: v0.4.1

Yet, later it pulls from head:

2025-09-16T07:26:37.0673252Z  Installing stew@0.4.1
2025-09-16T07:26:37.0675474Z     Copying file /home/runner/.nimble/pkgcache/githubcom_statusimnimstew_#head/stew/closures.nim to /home/runner/.nimble/pkgs2/stew-0.4.1-503d2862a0e211bf0d4c99f5ac66932bf2712adc/stew/closures.nim

full raw logs here

And every Checking for stew line, show that there are no reason to pull HEAD:

▶ grep "Checking for stew" ci_nimble.txt|sed 's/^[^ ]\+ \+//'|sort|uniq
Checking for stew@>= 0.1.0
Checking for stew@>= 0.2.0
Checking for stew@>= 0.3.0
Checking for stew@>= 0.4.0
Checking for stew@any version

ci_nimble.txt

In the CI, I run nimble list --installed --ver and we can see both HEAD and 0.4.1 being installed. this is suspicious:

stew
└── @0.4.1 (503d2862a0e211bf0d4c99f5ac66932bf2712adc) [#head, 0.4.1] (/home/runner/.nimble/pkgs2/stew-0.4.1-503d2862a0e211bf0d4c99f5ac66932bf2712adc)

Feel free to ask for any command to be added to the CI, or even open a PR (code can be found at logos-messaging/logos-delivery#3564).

Locally

Locally the problem does not always appear. But I was able to reproduce this morning.
I ran the same command as the CI, just started with rm -rf ~/.nimble/pkgs2/*.

I can see that indeed, the HEAD commit of nim-stew master was pulled locally:

▶ head  ~/.nimble/pkgs2/stew-0.4.1-503d2862a0e211bf0d4c99f5ac66932bf2712adc/nimblemeta.json
{
  "version": 1,
  "metaData": {
    "url": "https://github.com/status-im/nim-stew",
    "downloadMethod": "git",
    "vcsRevision": "a57a03fe4323a5e9bf8a8dbf3fca32cfcaa818a8",
    "files": [
      "/stew/shims/strformat.nim",
      "/stew/sorted_set/rbtree_walk.nim",
      "/stew/base58.nim",

status-im/nim-stew@a57a03f is HEAD master.

▶ tail  ~/.nimble/pkgs2/stew-0.4.1-503d2862a0e211bf0d4c99f5ac66932bf2712adc/nimblemeta.json    
      "/stew/sorted_set/rbtree_reset.nim",
      "/stew/keyed_queue/kq_debug.nim"
    ],
    "binaries": [],
    "specialVersions": [
      "#head",
      "0.4.1"
    ]
  }
}%   

and I can see that indeed, both #head and 0.4.1 are listed.

On another occurrence, with the same nimble file, etc. vcsRevision was showing the correct commit for the latest tag (0.4.1).

When running nimble deps --tree I can confirm again, that no dependency is asking for stew@#head or a commit:

▶ nimble deps --tree | grep stew | sed 's/^[├─└│ ]\+//'|sort|uniq
stew >= 0.1.0 (@0.4.1)
stew >= 0.2.0 (@0.4.1)
stew >= 0.3.0 (@0.4.1)
stew >= 0.4.0 (@0.4.1)
stew @any (@0.4.1)

deps_tree.txt

Let me know if there are any other command you want me to run locally.

[fryorcraken]

I updated my GH action to use nimble nightly. A different error has appeared earlier in the flow.

action run

nimble version

nimble v0.99.0 compiled at 2025-09-17 14:02:02
git hash: d57fd4b53fdb26905e4629074756a4e27c677105

error when running nimble install:

 nimble --verbose install "waku@#3ff4577a764a5ed3bb9021212a6d79c0acfa32b3"
  shell: /usr/bin/bash -e {0}
      Info: Package cache path /home/runner/.nimble/pkgcache
  Warning:  Nimble data file "/home/runner/work/nwaku/nwaku/examples/nimble/nimbledeps/nimbledata2.json" is not found.
options.nim(474)         findNimbleFile

    Error:  Could not find a file with a .nimble extension inside the specified directory: /home/runner/.nimble
     Info:  Nimble data file "/home/runner/work/nwaku/nwaku/examples/nimble/nimbledeps/nimbledata2.json" has been saved.

The steps of my CI are

1. git checkout using actions/checkout
2. nim install using iffy/install-nim
3. nimble install using nim-lang/setup-nimble-action
4. display nim and nimble versions
5. run `nimble --verbose install "waku@#"

failure at step (5).

Should I be running a different nim command first?

[jmgomez]

No, you dont even need to install nim. nimble will handle it for you. I cant reproduce it in local. Can you?

See:

jmgomez@jmgomez-virtual-machine:~/nimble/nimble_test$ rm -rf ~/.nimble/
jmgomez@jmgomez-virtual-machine:~/nimble/nimble_test$ nimble --verbose install "waku@#3ff4577a764a5ed3bb9021212a6d79c0acfa32b3"
      Info: Package cache path /home/jmgomez/.nimble/pkgcache
  Warning:  Nimble data file "/home/jmgomez/.nimble/nimbledata2.json" is not found.
    Reading official package list
Downloading Official package list
     Trying https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nim-lang/packages/master/packages.json
    Success Package list downloaded.
Downloading https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku using git

[fryorcraken]

No, you dont even need to install nim. nimble will handle it for you.

Are you sure about that? #1475 (comment): /home/runner/work/_temp/ac32b194-7b8d-4dfd-89b1-8c52d3b740af.sh: line 1: nim: command not found

Run nim-lang/setup-nimble-action@v1
Run "/home/runner/work/_actions/nim-lang/setup-nimble-action/v1/install_nimble.sh" \
2025-09-19 02:32:48 [INFO] Finding latest version...
2025-09-19 02:32:48 [INFO] Using nightly build from 'latest' tag
2025-09-19 02:32:48 [INFO] Installing nimble latest
2025-09-19 02:32:48 [INFO] Current directory: /home/runner/work/nwaku/nwaku
2025-09-19 02:32:48 [INFO] Installing to: .nimble_runtime/bin
2025-09-19 02:32:48 [INFO] Downloading from: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/releases/download/latest/nimble-linux_x64.tar.gz
nimble
2025-09-19 02:32:49 [INFO] Contents of .nimble_runtime/bin:
total 3432
drwxr-xr-x 2 runner runner    4096 Sep 19 02:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 runner runner    4096 Sep 19 02:32 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 runner runner 3505184 Sep 18 11:35 nimble
2025-09-19 02:32:49 [INFO] Nimble installation complete
Run parent=""
  parent=""
  if [[ "${parent}" = "" ]]; then
    parent="$PWD"
  fi
  echo "$parent/.nimble_runtime/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
  shell: /usr/bin/bash --noprofile --norc -e -o pipefail {0}
Run echo "installed nimble fullpath: $(which nimble)"
  echo "installed nimble fullpath: $(which nimble)"
  shell: /usr/bin/bash --noprofile --norc -e -o pipefail {0}
installed nimble fullpath: /home/runner/work/nwaku/nwaku/.nimble_runtime/bin/nimble
Run nimble -v
  nimble -v
  shell: /usr/bin/bash --noprofile --norc -e -o pipefail {0}
nimble v0.99.0 compiled at 2025-09-18 11:35:45
1s
Run nim-lang/setup-nimble-action@v1
Run "/home/runner/work/_actions/nim-lang/setup-nimble-action/v1/install_nimble.sh" \
2025-09-19 02:32:48 [INFO] Finding latest version...
2025-09-19 02:32:48 [INFO] Using nightly build from 'latest' tag
2025-09-19 02:32:48 [INFO] Installing nimble latest
2025-09-19 02:32:48 [INFO] Current directory: /home/runner/work/nwaku/nwaku
2025-09-19 02:32:48 [INFO] Installing to: .nimble_runtime/bin
2025-09-19 02:32:48 [INFO] Downloading from: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/releases/download/latest/nimble-linux_x64.tar.gz
nimble
2025-09-19 02:32:49 [INFO] Contents of .nimble_runtime/bin:
total 3432
drwxr-xr-x 2 runner runner    4096 Sep 19 02:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 runner runner    4096 Sep 19 02:32 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 runner runner 3505184 Sep 18 11:35 nimble
2025-09-19 02:32:49 [INFO] Nimble installation complete
Run parent=""
  parent=""
  if [[ "${parent}" = "" ]]; then
    parent="$PWD"
  fi
  echo "$parent/.nimble_runtime/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
  shell: /usr/bin/bash --noprofile --norc -e -o pipefail {0}
Run echo "installed nimble fullpath: $(which nimble)"
  echo "installed nimble fullpath: $(which nimble)"
  shell: /usr/bin/bash --noprofile --norc -e -o pipefail {0}
installed nimble fullpath: /home/runner/work/nwaku/nwaku/.nimble_runtime/bin/nimble
Run nimble -v
  nimble -v
  shell: /usr/bin/bash --noprofile --norc -e -o pipefail {0}
nimble v0.99.0 compiled at 2025-09-18 11:35:45
git hash: 1b4deb9be9fca7b8a21576a6c0de85f1ae7c30de
0s
Run nim --version
  nim --version
  nimble --version
  shell: /usr/bin/bash -e {0}
/home/runner/work/_temp/ac32b194-7b8d-4dfd-89b1-8c52d3b740af.sh: line 1: nim: command not found
Error: Process completed with exit code 127.
0s
Run nim --version
  nim --version
  nimble --version
  shell: /usr/bin/bash -e {0}
/home/runner/work/_temp/ac32b194-7b8d-4dfd-89b1-8c52d3b740af.sh: line 1: nim: command not found
Error: Process completed with exit code 127.
Run nim --version
  nim --version
  nimble --version
  shell: /usr/bin/bash -e {0}
/home/runner/work/_temp/ac32b194-7b8d-4dfd-89b1-8c52d3b740af.sh: line 1: nim: command not found

I cant reproduce it in local. Can you?

Will comeback to you, doing some tests.

[fryorcraken]

Yes I can reproduce locally, I did:

rm -rf ~/.nimble
curl https://nim-lang.org/choosenim/init.sh -sSf | sh
choosenim update stable
nimble install nimble@#head

nimble --version

nimble v0.99.0 compiled at 2025-09-19 02:39:06
git hash: 1b4deb9be9fca7b8a21576a6c0de85f1ae7c30de

in an empty folder:

▶ nimble --verbose install "waku@#3ff4577a764a5ed3bb9021212a6d79c0acfa32b3"
      Info: Package cache path /home/fryorcraken/.nimble/pkgcache
     Info:  Nimble data file "/home/fryorcraken/.nimble/nimbledata2.json" has been loaded.
    Reading official package list
options.nim(474)         findNimbleFile

    Error:  Could not find a file with a .nimble extension inside the specified directory: /home/fryorcraken/.nimble
     Info:  Nimble data file "/home/fryorcraken/.nimble/nimbledata2.json" has been saved.

in a folder with the following example.nimble file:

src/fryorcraken/waku-nimble                                                                                                                                 ⍉
▶ cat example.nimble 
# Package

version       = "0.1.0"
author        = "fryorcraken"
description   = "Test Waku with nimble"
license       = "MIT"
srcDir        = "src"
bin           = @["example"]


# Dependencies

requires "waku"

same:

▶ nimble --verbose install "waku@#3ff4577a764a5ed3bb9021212a6d79c0acfa32b3"
      Info: Package cache path /home/fryorcraken/.nimble/pkgcache
  Warning:  Nimble data file "/home/fryorcraken/src/fryorcraken/waku-nimble/nimbledeps/nimbledata2.json" is not found.
options.nim(474)         findNimbleFile

    Error:  Could not find a file with a .nimble extension inside the specified directory: /home/fryorcraken/.nimble
     Info:  Nimble data file "/home/fryorcraken/src/fryorcraken/waku-nimble/nimbledeps/nimbledata2.json" has been saved.

Actually, even for other install it happens:

▶ nimble install nimble@#cfb7443d60c8d6c9076f67e92b1d008728c828fa
       Tip: 3 messages have been suppressed, use --verbose to show them.
options.nim(474)         findNimbleFile

    Error:  Could not find a file with a .nimble extension inside the specified directory: /home/fryorcraken/.nimble

▶ ls -al ~/.nimble 
total 1712
drwxr-xr-x. 1 fryorcraken fryorcraken    196 Sep 19 12:37 .
drwx------. 1 fryorcraken fryorcraken   1624 Sep 19 12:50 ..
drwxr-xr-x. 1 fryorcraken fryorcraken    120 Sep 19 12:39 bin
-rw-r--r--. 1 fryorcraken fryorcraken     39 Sep 19 12:50 nimbledata2.json
-rw-r--r--. 1 fryorcraken fryorcraken    974 Sep 19 12:37 official-nim-releases.json
-rw-r--r--. 1 fryorcraken fryorcraken 872299 Sep 19 12:37 packages_official.json
-rw-r--r--. 1 fryorcraken fryorcraken 872299 Sep 19 12:37 packages_temp.json
drwxr-xr-x. 1 fryorcraken fryorcraken    362 Sep 19 12:50 pkgcache
drwxr-xr-x. 1 fryorcraken fryorcraken    216 Sep 19 12:39 pkgs2

Indeed, there is no *.nimble file in there.

Do note I was able to do nimble install nimble@#... after installing nim via choosenim. So I am guessing some nimble version broke it.

[fryorcraken]

The issue seems to have been introduced before 670cda5

▶ choosenim update 2.2.2
   Updating 2.2.2
      Info: Already up to date at version 2.2.2
    Removed symlink pointing to ../pkgs2/nimble-0.99.0-e1fb45673adc4745f90d6261591a4e776c89ae20/nimble
  Installed component 'nimble'
   Switched to Nim 2.2.2

~                                                                                                                                                            
▶ nimble --version
nimble v0.16.4 compiled at 2025-02-06 02:02:41
git hash: couldn't determine git hash

~                                                                                                                                                            
▶ nimble install nimble@#670cda583cc900804e272132d331067c4f6b4e00
Downloading https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble using git
 Installing nimble@0.99.0
   Building nimble/nimble using c backend
      Info: compiling nim package using /home/fryorcraken/.nimble/bin/nim
   Warning: Symlink already exists in /home/fryorcraken/.nimble/bin/nimble. Replacing.
  Success:  nimble installed successfully.

~                                                                                                                                                            
▶ nimble install nimble@#cfb7443d60c8d6c9076f67e92b1d008728c828fa
       Tip: 3 messages have been suppressed, use --verbose to show them.
options.nim(471)         findNimbleFile

    Error:  Could not find a file with a .nimble extension inside the specified directory: /home/fryorcraken/.nimble

[fryorcraken]

▶ nimble install nimble@#9207e8b2bbdf66b5a4d1020214cff44d2d30df92
Downloading https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble using git
 Installing nimble@0.20.1
  Warning:  A package "nimble@0.20.1" with checksum "8e8eab0373eddcc8f21f503b02b75b5a97948447" already exists in the cache.
   Building nimble/nimble using c backend
      Info: compiling nim package using /home/fryorcraken/.nimble/bin/nim
   Warning: Symlink already exists in /home/fryorcraken/.nimble/bin/nimble. Replacing.
  Success:  nimble installed successfully.

~                                                                                                                                                            
▶ nimble install nimble@#1aa36e0211b9deedaf0631e96b539dbb1f95f361
Downloading https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble using git
   Building nimble/nimble using c backend
      Info: compiling nim package using /home/fryorcraken/.nimble/bin/nim
   Warning: Symlink already exists in /home/fryorcraken/.nimble/bin/nimble. Replacing.

~                                                                                                                                                            
▶ nimble install nimble@#09176add698397d5294978cb72a1773dccc85a6b
  Warning:  No .nimble file found for /home/fryorcraken
Downloading https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble using git
       Tip: 3 messages have been suppressed, use --verbose to show them.
packageinfo.nim(280)     findNimbleFile

    Error:  Could not find a file with a .nimble extension inside the specified directory: /home/fryorcraken/.nimble

Looks like the issue started with 1aa36e0

[jmgomez]

Are you sure about that?
Yes, as long as you dont use it. Building nimble from sources requires it oc

nimble 0.99.0 is not even RC yet, we know it was introduced there. But its a good thing to stress it.

Will retry to repro it on my end. Thanks

[jmgomez]

Does it happens to you when you install a regular package as well? i..e nimble install results

[fryorcraken]

results installs correctly

 nimble --verbose install results
  shell: /usr/bin/bash -e {0}
      Info: Package cache path /home/runner/.nimble/pkgcache
  Warning:  Nimble data file "/home/runner/work/nwaku/nwaku/examples/nimble/nimbledeps/nimbledata2.json" is not found.
    Reading official package list
Downloading Official package list
     Trying https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nim-lang/packages/master/packages.json
    Success Package list downloaded.
Downloading https://github.com/arnetheduck/nim-results using git
    Cloning latest tagged version: v0.5.1
    Reading official package list
    Reading official package list
    Reading official package list
    Reading official package list
    Reading official package list
    Reading official package list
    Reading official package list
Downloading Nim 2.2.4 from nim-lang.org
[                                                  ] 0.02476% 4kb/s[##################################################] 100.0% 0kb/s
    Warning Nim /home/runner/.nimble/nimbinaries/nim-2.2.4 is not properly extracted
 Extracting nim-2.2.4-linux_x64.tar.xz
 Extracting nim-2.2.4-linux_x64.tar
      Info: using /home/runner/.nimble/nimbinaries/nim-2.2.4/bin/nim for compilation
    Reading official package list
 Installing results@0.5.1
    Copying file /home/runner/.nimble/pkgcache/githubcom_arnetheducknimresults_0.5.1/README.md to /home/runner/work/nwaku/nwaku/examples/nimble/nimbledeps/pkgs2/results-0.5.1-a9c011f74bc9ed5c91103917b9f382b12e82a9e7/README.md
    Copying file /home/runner/.nimble/pkgcache/githubcom_arnetheducknimresults_0.5.1/nimblemeta.json to /home/runner/work/nwaku/nwaku/examples/nimble/nimbledeps/pkgs2/results-0.5.1-a9c011f74bc9ed5c91103917b9f382b12e82a9e7/nimblemeta.json
    Copying file /home/runner/.nimble/pkgcache/githubcom_arnetheducknimresults_0.5.1/LICENSE-APACHEv2 to /home/runner/work/nwaku/nwaku/examples/nimble/nimbledeps/pkgs2/results-0.5.1-a9c011f74bc9ed5c91103917b9f382b12e82a9e7/LICENSE-APACHEv2
    Copying file /home/runner/.nimble/pkgcache/githubcom_arnetheducknimresults_0.5.1/results.nimble to /home/runner/work/nwaku/nwaku/examples/nimble/nimbledeps/pkgs2/results-0.5.1-a9c011f74bc9ed5c91103917b9f382b12e82a9e7/results.nimble
    Copying file /home/runner/.nimble/pkgcache/githubcom_arnetheducknimresults_0.5.1/results.nim to /home/runner/work/nwaku/nwaku/examples/nimble/nimbledeps/pkgs2/results-0.5.1-a9c011f74bc9ed5c91103917b9f382b12e82a9e7/results.nim
    Copying file /home/runner/.nimble/pkgcache/githubcom_arnetheducknimresults_0.5.1/LICENSE-MIT to /home/runner/work/nwaku/nwaku/examples/nimble/nimbledeps/pkgs2/results-0.5.1-a9c011f74bc9ed5c91103917b9f382b12e82a9e7/LICENSE-MIT
    Copying file /home/runner/.nimble/pkgcache/githubcom_arnetheducknimresults_0.5.1/results.nimble to /home/runner/work/nwaku/nwaku/examples/nimble/nimbledeps/pkgs2/results-0.5.1-a9c011f74bc9ed5c91103917b9f382b12e82a9e7/results.nimble
  Success:  results installed successfully.

With the following example.nimble file do note the file is located in nwaku/examples/nimble/example.nimble. and in nwaku there is a the waku.nimble file. I don't know if nimble is impacted by other files in parent directories.

# Package

version       = "0.1.0"
author        = "fryorcraken"
description   = "Test Waku with nimble"
license       = "MIT"
srcDir        = "src"
bin           = @["example"]


# Dependencies

with

requires "chronos"
requires "results"

In example.nimble it also works and installs both chronos and results successfully.

So indeed, it seems to be related to the presence of the waku dependency.

[fryorcraken]

Also happens locally

▶ nimble --verbose install waku@#a7cf86d576ec6916bd5c9c276cfa58439cea7eb6
      Info: Package cache path /home/fryorcraken/.nimble/pkgcache
     Info:  Nimble data file "/home/fryorcraken/.nimble/nimbledata2.json" has been loaded.
packageinfo.nim(280)     findNimbleFile

    Error:  Could not find a file with a .nimble extension inside the specified directory: /home/fryorcraken/.nimble
     Info:  Nimble data file "/home/fryorcraken/.nimble/nimbledata2.json" has been saved.

nwaku/examples/nimble  waku-api-create-node ✗                                                                                                         2m ◒  ⍉
▶ nimble --version
nimble v0.20.1 compiled at 2025-09-19 05:05:29
git hash: 1aa36e0211b9deedaf0631e96b539dbb1f95f361

nwaku/examples/nimble  waku-api-create-node ✗                                                                                                        4m ⚑ ◒  
▶ nimble install nimble
       Tip: 2 messages have been suppressed, use --verbose to show them.
packageinfo.nim(280)     findNimbleFile

    Error:  Could not find a file with a .nimble extension inside the specified directory: /home/fryorcraken/.nimble

nwaku/examples/nimble  waku-api-create-node ✗                                                                                                       4m ⚑ ◒  ⍉
▶ cd

~                                                                                                                                                            
▶ nimble install nimble
  Warning:  No .nimble file found for /home/fryorcraken
       Tip: 3 messages have been suppressed, use --verbose to show them.
packageinfo.nim(280)     findNimbleFile

    Error:  Could not find a file with a .nimble extension inside the specified directory: /home/fryorcraken/.nimble

▶ cat example.nimble 
# Package

version       = "0.1.0"
author        = "fryorcraken"
description   = "Test Waku with nimble"
license       = "MIT"
srcDir        = "src"
bin           = @["example"]


# Dependencies

requires "chronos"
requires "results"
requires "waku"

Anything I can do to help the investigation?

[jmgomez]

nimble v0.20.1 compiled at 2025-09-19 05:05:29

Thats not 0.99.0 I thought it only happened in 0.99.0? It starts to sound like an issue in the package. Will try to repro with your example.nimble on my end

[fryorcraken]

nimble v0.20.1 compiled at 2025-09-19 05:05:29

Thats not 0.99.0 I thought it only happened in 0.99.0? It starts to sound like an issue in the package. Will try to repro with your example.nimble on my end

Yes you are correct, the issue started with 0.99.0. But then, in recent trials, I noticed hit happening with 0.20 too.

Note that in the CI, I use

nim-lang/setup-nimble-action@v1
  with:
    nimble-version: nightly

Locally, I change across versions as things breaks....

---

The whole goal here is to make waku consumable as a nimble library, and indeed, I am guessing there are still issue with waku.

---

In the CI, I reached a stage with:

example.nimble

requires waku

then CI does

nimble install waku@#<head of PR branch>

and I had a dependency conflict error coming from Waku.

I think we mess a lot with the dependencies as part of the work.

I will open a new issue for that, because it seems the dependencies conflict came from requires waku in nimble file vs running nimble install waku@#... Which is unexpected IMO, as if I install a specific dep/version, then I'd expect what is in the nimble file to be disregarded.

---

Because of that, I changed the nimble install waku@#.. to

run: nimble --verbose add "waku@#..."

CI run

and I get

 Error: unhandled exception: nimble.nim(221, 7) `options.satResult.nimResolved.pkg.isSome` Nim is not resolved yet [AssertionDefect]

this is with

Run nimble --version
nimble v0.99.0 compiled at 2025-09-19 14:56:47
git hash: 8aa596cd1e96e4be0491ec170062e7e4ac0daac5

do you want a new issue for that too?

[fryorcraken]

I mean my local install is totally messed up:

▶ nimble --version
nimble v0.99.0 compiled at 2025-09-23 04:34:46
git hash: 1b4deb9be9fca7b8a21576a6c0de85f1ae7c30de

nwaku/examples/nimble  waku-api-create-node ✗                                                                                                       22m ⚑ ◒  
▶ cat example.nimble 
# Package

version       = "0.1.0"
author        = "fryorcraken"
description   = "Test Waku with nimble"
license       = "MIT"
srcDir        = "src"
bin           = @["example"]


# Dependencies

requires "chronos"
requires "results"
requires "waku"%                                                                                                                                              
nwaku/examples/nimble  waku-api-create-node ✗                                                                                                       22m ⚑ ◒  
▶ git rev-parse HEAD
73f37b5db546b69727d59eec4b85cf69b769aa0d

nwaku/examples/nimble  waku-api-create-node ✗                                                                                                       22m ⚑ ◒  
▶ nimble --verbose add waku@#73f37b5db546b69727d59eec4b85cf69b769aa0d
      Info: Package cache path /home/fryorcraken/.nimble/pkgcache
      Info: Package cache path /home/fryorcraken/.nimble/pkgcache
     Info:  Nimble data file "/home/fryorcraken/src/waku-org/nwaku/examples/nimble/nimbledeps/nimbledata2.json" has been loaded.
Downloading Official package list
     Trying https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nim-lang/packages/master/packages.json
    Success Package list downloaded.
  Warning:  waku is already a dependency to example; ignoring.
     Info:  Nimble data file "/home/fryorcraken/src/waku-org/nwaku/examples/nimble/nimbledeps/nimbledata2.json" has been saved.

nwaku/examples/nimble  waku-api-create-node ✗                                                                                                       22m ⚑ ◒  
▶ nimble --verbose install waku@#73f37b5db546b69727d59eec4b85cf69b769aa0d
      Info: Package cache path /home/fryorcraken/.nimble/pkgcache
      Info: Package cache path /home/fryorcraken/.nimble/pkgcache
     Info:  Nimble data file "/home/fryorcraken/src/waku-org/nwaku/examples/nimble/nimbledeps/nimbledata2.json" has been loaded.
options.nim(474)         findNimbleFile

    Error:  Could not find a file with a .nimble extension inside the specified directory: /home/fryorcraken/.nimble
     Info:  Nimble data file "/home/fryorcraken/src/waku-org/nwaku/examples/nimble/nimbledeps/nimbledata2.json" has been saved.

nwaku/examples/nimble  waku-api-create-node ✗                                                                                                      22m ⚑ ◒  ⍉
▶ choose

nwaku/examples/nimble  waku-api-create-node ✗                                                                                                      23m ⚑ ◒  ⍉
▶ nimble install nimble                                                  
       Tip: 3 messages have been suppressed, use --verbose to show them.
options.nim(474)         findNimbleFile

    Error:  Could not find a file with a .nimble extension inside the specified directory: /home/fryorcraken/.nimble

nwaku/examples/nimble  waku-api-create-node ✗                                                                                                      24m ⚑ ◒  ⍉
▶ git rev-parse HEAD                                                     

nwaku/examples/nimble  waku-api-create-node ✗                                                                                                      24m ⚑ ◒  ⍉
▶ nimble install results
       Tip: 3 messages have been suppressed, use --verbose to show them.
options.nim(474)         findNimbleFile

    Error:  Could not find a file with a .nimble extension inside the specified directory: /home/fryorcraken/.nimble

[fryorcraken]

I just noticed

Warning: Using project local deps mode

Could it be related?

[fryorcraken]

I am really confused

▶ nimble install nimble@#8aa596cd1e96e4be0491ec170062e7e4ac0daac5
   Warning: Using project local deps mode
Downloading https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble using git
   Building nimble/nimble using c backend
      Info: compiling nim package using /home/fryorcraken/src/fryorcraken/nimblewaku/nimbledeps/bin/nim
   Warning: Symlink already exists in /home/fryorcraken/src/fryorcraken/nimblewaku/nimbledeps/bin/nimble. Replacing.

src/fryorcraken/nimblewaku  infinite-official-package-list ✗                                                                                           6m ◒  
▶ nimble --version                                                         
nimble v0.18.2 compiled at 2025-04-22 02:13:48
git hash: couldn't determine git hash

src/fryorcraken/nimblewaku  infinite-official-package-list ✗                                                                                           6m ◒  
▶ ls
example.nimble  nimbledeps  README.md  src

src/fryorcraken/nimblewaku  infinite-official-package-list ✗                                                                                           6m ◒  
▶ rm -rf nimbledeps 

src/fryorcraken/nimblewaku  infinite-official-package-list ✔                                                                                             7m  
▶ nimble install nimble@#8aa596cd1e96e4be0491ec170062e7e4ac0daac5
Downloading Official package list
    Success Package list downloaded.
   Building nimble/nimble using c backend
      Info: compiling nim package using /home/fryorcraken/.nimble/bin/nim
   Warning: Symlink already exists in /home/fryorcraken/.nimble/bin/nimble. Replacing.

src/fryorcraken/nimblewaku  infinite-official-package-list ✔                                                                                             7m  
▶ nimble --version                                               
nimble v0.99.0 compiled at 2025-09-23 05:45:39
git hash: 8aa596cd1e96e4be0491ec170062e7e4ac0daac5

src/fryorcraken/nimblewaku  infinite-official-package-list ✗                                                                                           7m ◒  
▶ nimble --verbose install "waku@#8637c5439f4d985fa49562f930d8e28640f7bbdc"
      Info: Package cache path /home/fryorcraken/.nimble/pkgcache
      Info: Package cache path /home/fryorcraken/.nimble/pkgcache
     Info:  Nimble data file "/home/fryorcraken/src/fryorcraken/nimblewaku/nimbledeps/nimbledata2.json" has been loaded.
options.nim(474)         findNimbleFile

    Error:  Could not find a file with a .nimble extension inside the specified directory: /home/fryorcraken/.nimble
     Info:  Nimble data file "/home/fryorcraken/src/fryorcraken/nimblewaku/nimbledeps/nimbledata2.json" has been saved.

src/fryorcraken/nimblewaku  infinite-official-package-list ✗                                                                                          7m ◒  ⍉
▶ rm -rf nimbledeps                                                        

src/fryorcraken/nimblewaku  infinite-official-package-list ✔                                                                                             7m  
▶ nimble --verbose install "waku@#8637c5439f4d985fa49562f930d8e28640f7bbdc"
      Info: Package cache path /home/fryorcraken/.nimble/pkgcache
  Warning:  Nimble data file "/home/fryorcraken/src/fryorcraken/nimblewaku/nimbledeps/nimbledata2.json" is not found.
options.nim(474)         findNimbleFile

    Error:  Could not find a file with a .nimble extension inside the specified directory: /home/fryorcraken/.nimble
     Info:  Nimble data file "/home/fryorcraken/src/fryorcraken/nimblewaku/nimbledeps/nimbledata2.json" has been saved.