# Dependency Struggle in Local Registry

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dependency-struggle-in-local-registry/40570>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** package-manager\
**Created:** [June 1, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dependency-struggle-in-local-registry/40570 "2020-06-01T17:42:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![cortner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cortner/32/204_2.png) [@cortner](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cortner)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dependency-struggle-in-local-registry/40570/1 "2020-06-01T17:42:07Z")

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I’m part of a small group maintaining our own registry for packages that are too specialised or not mature enough for General. Occasionally there are hiccups in managing dependencies, and here is another one - I hope somebody can point me in the right direction:

This concerns the package [ASE.jl](https://github.com/JuliaMolSim/ASE.jl).

```nohighlight
# A/ASE/Dep.toml
["0.5.2-0"]
Requires = "ae029012-a4dd-5104-9daa-d747884805df"

```

I then start a new project in `scratch` and add _only_ `ASE` to it:

```nohighlight
# scratch/Project.toml
[deps]
ASE = "51974c44-a7ed-5088-b8be-3e78c8ba416c"

# scratch/Manifest.toml
[[ASE]]
deps = ["JuLIP", "LinearAlgebra", "NeighbourLists", "Parameters", "PyCall", "Reexport"]
git-tree-sha1 = "b405cc94aa9f3a325e8d5b5e20717be899cec05a"
uuid = "51974c44-a7ed-5088-b8be-3e78c8ba416c"
version = "0.5.3"

# .... and many others .....

```

Why does `Requires` not get listed in the dependencies? This is currently causing all my tests to fail. I tried to `resolve`, `rm Manifest.toml`, nothing I do seems to fix this?

Thanks in advance for any advise!

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**Author:** ![cortner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cortner/32/204_2.png) [@cortner](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cortner)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dependency-struggle-in-local-registry/40570/2 "2020-06-06T18:38:40Z")

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Bump - does anybody have any thoughts what might cause this to help me debug?

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**Author:** ![kristoffer.carlsson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kristoffer.carlsson/32/22_2.png) [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dependency-struggle-in-local-registry/40570/3 "2020-06-06T19:16:12Z")

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Try with the 1.5 beta. It contains some fixes for the case of working with multiple registries.

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**Author:** ![cortner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cortner/32/204_2.png) [@cortner](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cortner)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 7:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dependency-struggle-in-local-registry/40570/4 "2020-06-06T19:21:12Z")

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Great, will do. I just installed it.

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**Author:** ![cortner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cortner/32/204_2.png) [@cortner](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cortner)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dependency-struggle-in-local-registry/40570/5 "2020-06-06T21:11:30Z")

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Behaviour has improved, it now fails more gracefully, but still fails on Julia v1.5; see below. I tried to register another artificial version but the behaviour remains the same.

```julia
(@v1.5) pkg> activate .
 Activating new environment at `~/.julia/dev/scratch/Project.toml`

(scratch) pkg> add ASE

# ... lots of stuff happening ... 

(scratch) pkg> status
Status `~/.julia/dev/scratch/Project.toml`
  [51974c44] ASE v0.5.3

(scratch) pkg> test ASE
    Testing ASE
Status `/private/var/folders/6_/0g4_trws39v6l0lyfpygjpzr0000gn/T/jl_zH1qZN/Project.toml`
  [51974c44] ASE v0.5.3
  [945c410c] JuLIP v0.9.3
  [2fcf5ba9] NeighbourLists v0.5.1
  [d96e819e] Parameters v0.12.1
  [438e738f] PyCall v1.91.4
  [189a3867] Reexport v0.2.0
  [ae029012] Requires v1.0.1
  [37e2e46d] LinearAlgebra
  [8dfed614] Test
Status `/private/var/folders/6_/0g4_trws39v6l0lyfpygjpzr0000gn/T/jl_zH1qZN/Manifest.toml`
  [51974c44] ASE v0.5.3
  [2169fc97] AlgebraicMultigrid v0.3.0
  [4fba245c] ArrayInterface v2.8.7

# .... many lines removed .... 

  [8dfed614] Test
  [cf7118a7] UUIDs
  [4ec0a83e] Unicode
┌ Warning: Package ASE does not have Requires in its dependencies:
│ - If you have ASE checked out for development and have
│ added Requires as a dependency but haven't updated your primary
│ environment's manifest file, try `Pkg.resolve()`.
│ - Otherwise you may need to report an issue with ASE
└ Loading Requires into ASE from project dependency, future warnings for ASE are suppressed.
≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡
  Testing ASE.jl
≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡

# ..... the tests all pass - no problem. 

```