OTA works with manual build but not with managed flow

[RomeHein]

Hello there 👋

I have an issue running an OTA with the expo manage flow.

• When I follow the steps of the current README, I can successfully download and make an update of my app.
• But when I build my app and publish it via eas build and eas submit, any bundle that are created via the npx expo export command are not seen as an update by the app, and I get this from the iOS stack trace:

  {"code":"NoUpdatesAvailable","message":"EXUpdatesAppController appLoaderTask
  didFinishBackgroundUpdateWithStatus=NoUpdateAvailable","timestamp":1671728611000,"level":"error","stacktrace":
  ["HelloTest 0x0000000100e87414 $s9EXUpdates13UpdatesLoggerC5error7message4code8updateId05assetH0ySS_AA0B9ErrorCodeOSSSgAKtFTo + 180","HelloTest
  0x0000000100e5dfbc -
  [EXUpdatesAppController appLoaderTask:didFinishBackgroundUpdateWithStatus:update:error:] + 588","HelloTest
  0x0000000100e64840 __78-
  [EXUpdatesAppLoaderTask _didFinishBackgroundUpdateWithStatus:manifest:error:]_block_invoke +
  44","libdispatch.dylib                   0x0000000180133fa4 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 24","libdispatch.dylib
  0x0000000180135768 _dispatch_client_callout + 16","libdispatch.dylib

From the stack trace it seems that there is an issue with the updateId. But I have no idea how this variable interact with the update flow.

So to sum up:

• Running locally: expo run:ios --configuration Release --no-build-cache, then updating the app version, then running npx expo export, then copy/pasting the content of the dist folder into the right runtimeVersion folder of the eas-server, run eas server locally, open local server via an SSH tunnel + proxy => works ✅
• Running eas build --profile beta and eas submit --profile beta, then updating the app version, then running npx expo export, then copy/pasting the content of the dist folder into the right runtimeVersion folder of the eas-server , _run eas server on netlify, with the exact same code as the local one=> does not work ❌

Here is my app.json:

{
    "expo": {
        "name": "HelloTest",
        "slug": "HelloTest-chat-mobile",
        "privacy": "public",
        "platforms": [
            "ios",
            "android"
        ],
        "runtimeVersion": "1",
        "version": "2.2.3",
        "orientation": "portrait",
        "icon": "./assets/icon.png",
        "splash": {
            "image": "./assets/splash-v2.png",
            "resizeMode": "contain",
            "backgroundColor": "#fff"
        },
        "updates": {
            "url": "https://eas-update.helloTest.eu/api/manifest",
            "enabled": true,
            "fallbackToCacheTimeout": 30000,
            "codeSigningCertificate": "./code-signing/certificate.pem",
            "codeSigningMetadata": {
                "keyid": "main",
                "alg": "rsa-v1_5-sha256"
            }
        },
        "assetBundlePatterns": [
            "**/*"
        ],
        "ios": {
            "buildNumber": "1",
            "supportsTablet": false,
            "usesIcloudStorage": true,
            "usesAppleSignIn": true,
            "bundleIdentifier": "com.helloTest.mobilechat",
            }
        },
        "android": {
            "package": "com.helloTest.mobilechat",
            "googleServicesFile": "./google-services.json",
            "icon": "./assets/icon.png",
            "adaptiveIcon": {
                "foregroundImage": "./assets/android-foreground-icon.png",
                "backgroundColor": "#69BEA7"
            },
            "versionCode": 223,
            "permissions": [
                "CAMERA",
            ]
        },
        "scheme": "helloTest",
        "plugins": [
            "sentry-expo"
        ]
    }
}

And here is the request header I receive and then print from the eas-server (the one on netlify), once all if conditions are passed (all IPs, IDs and cookies are fake) :

{
  host: 'eas-update.helloTest.eu',
  accept: 'multipart/mixed,application/expo+json,application/json',
  'accept-encoding': 'br',
  'accept-language': 'en-US,en;q=0.9',
  cookie: '_session_id=1k1kwZZkEFXOI5Ipe3pjDjVCuqPg4NtJBgoUe5szPvkorlp5ZCuOVW6ZFr9D7l2i4njHZIR%2Fa3AS2XAS8WGWLIcg7%2FCRW1B2qTsKaI5Vi%2BkDs4IDZsKG%2Fz1LzBHds8SyzgSEPbxN22cdI%2FQZvzvD6s211rAofVd2EFXchbfo4CO41IX0%2B9oY%2BoHjwshR2AUNoDa8sDYOXRP2zIgwn%2B7iBLjcSUJeznEFIpVPfwsRb3qkPn7X1blHjx85wY3eq6MZLw4o9%2BeN1P9iTzlECcIm6lAsjg%3D%3D--83cB38amDA8vygui--GrteO%2Bp695Ddw30jnvCiNw%3D%3D',
  'eas-client-id': '5438EE07-922D-43BE-922D-1B594311B934',
  'expo-accept-signature': 'false',
  'expo-api-version': '1',
  'expo-current-update-id': '46144ffd-e85b-4621-b206-e5ef45ffcab2',
  'expo-embedded-update-id': '46144ffd-e85b-4621-b206-e5ef45ffcab2',
  'expo-expect-signature': 'sig, keyid="main", alg="rsa-v1_5-sha256"',
  'expo-json-error': 'true',
  'expo-platform': 'ios',
  'expo-release-channel': 'default',
  'expo-runtime-version': '1',
  'expo-updates-environment': 'BARE',
  'user-agent': 'HelloTest/1 CFNetwork/1402.0.8 Darwin/22.1.0',
  'x-country': 'ES',
  'x-forwarded-for': '62.118.155.55, 101.62.0.225',
  'x-forwarded-proto': 'https',
  'x-language': 'en-US',
  'x-nf-client-connection-ip': '62.118.155.55',
  'x-nf-request-id': '01GMXNF4349FFDC1FEEYZA83MP',
  connection: 'close'
}

Thanks for any help/assistance you could provide 👍

[RomeHein]

Ok I found the issue. It was coming from the getMetadataSync function in the helper file:

createdAt: new Date(metadataStat.birthtime).toISOString(),

Somehow on Netlify the birthtime of the metadata file isn't right and return 1970 date. This issue took me 3 days to debug. I wish expo had better logs instead of just logging "error: noUpdateAvailable"

[munawarkholil]

how to solve

Ok I found the issue. It was coming from the getMetadataSync function in the helper file:

createdAt: new Date(metadataStat.birthtime).toISOString(),

Somehow on Netlify the birthtime of the metadata file isn't right and return 1970 date. This issue took me 3 days to debug. I wish expo had better logs instead of just logging "error: noUpdateAvailable"

how to fix that error bro?