Error doing post analysis query: Evaluation failed: Unable to load package

cameron-martin commented 1 year ago

Description of the bug:

Under certain conditions, when I run bazel cquery or bazel aquery, it errors with the following message:

ERROR: Error doing post analysis query: Evaluation failed: Unable to load package '[/home/cameronm/.cache/bazel/_bazel_cameronm/0465fca5c3fb7ad56482d91d46c984ea/external/bazel_skylib]/[]' because package is not in scope. Check that all target patterns in query expression are within the --universe_scope of this query.

I'm not 100% sure what those conditions are, but there is a reproducer below. I know that the presence and modification of the .bazelignore file affects this, as does some third-party pip WORKSPACE macro.

What's the simplest, easiest way to reproduce this bug? Please provide a minimal example if possible.

https://github.com/cameron-martin/bazel_cquery_bug

See the README for more info

Which operating system are you running Bazel on?

Ubuntu 18.04

What is the output of `bazel info release`?

release 6.0.0

If `bazel info release` returns `development version` or `(@non-git)`, tell us how you built Bazel.

No response

What's the output of `git remote get-url origin; git rev-parse master; git rev-parse HEAD` ?

git@github.com:cameron-martin/bazel_cquery_bug.git
a2a8e9ed0dd0f795cb2079e358d174b8198a4ee1
a2a8e9ed0dd0f795cb2079e358d174b8198a4ee1

Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?

No response

Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?

There is a slack thread about it here: https://bazelbuild.slack.com/archives/CA31HN1T3/p1676643124133759

matt-sm commented 6 months ago

+1 I ran into this same issue when trying to run an aquery on an external.

This is a somewhat of a blocker for the project I'm working on, as we rely on aquery output to produce a unqiue identifier for bazel-built packages.

And much the same as the minimal example, when I delete .bazelignore aquery works.

moroten commented 1 month ago

Does Bazel 7.4.0 and #22142 solve this for you?

bazelbuild / bazel