I just encountered an issue where installing package from a private repository using deployment tokens on gitlab fails when using install_git with the default git2r but works with external git. I was first caught by the bug with the @ in the url but using the development verion of remote this seems to be resolved. Note that in the example below the message about terra is unrelated.
url<-"http://tokenuser:aWGB9kyGjAfxPv5H7QF8@gitlab.com/test_group901/starsTileServer.git"
remotes::install_git(url, force=T)
#> Error: Failed to install 'unknown package' from Git:
#> Error in 'git2r_remote_ls'
remotes::install_git(url, force=T, git = 'external')
#> Downloading git repo http://tokenuser:aWGB9kyGjAfxPv5H7QF8@gitlab.com/test_group901/starsTileServer.git
#> '/usr/bin/git' clone --depth 1 --no-hardlinks http://tokenuser:aWGB9kyGjAfxPv5H7QF8@gitlab.com/test_group901/starsTileServer.git /tmp/RtmpEtgqzF/file3294bd5ef8909
#> terra (NA -> 1.4-22) [CRAN]
#> Installing 1 packages: terra
#> Installing package into '/home/bart/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library'
#> (as 'lib' is unspecified)
#> Warning in i.p(...): installation of package 'terra' had non-zero exit status
#> checking for file ‘/tmp/RtmpEtgqzF/file3294bd5ef8909/DESCRIPTION’ ... ✓ checking for file ‘/tmp/RtmpEtgqzF/file3294bd5ef8909/DESCRIPTION’
#> ─ preparing ‘starsTileServer’:
#> checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... ✓ checking DESCRIPTION meta-information
#> ─ checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
#> ─ checking for empty or unneeded directories
#> Omitted ‘LazyData’ from DESCRIPTION
#> ─ building ‘starsTileServer_0.0.0.9000.tar.gz’
#>
#>
#> Installing package into '/home/bart/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library'
#> (as 'lib' is unspecified)
sessionInfo()
#> R version 4.1.2 (2021-11-01)
#> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
#> Running under: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
#>
#> Matrix products: default
#> BLAS: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/blas/libblas.so.3.9.0
#> LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.9.0
#>
#> locale:
#> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
#> [3] LC_TIME=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
#> [5] LC_MONETARY=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
#> [7] LC_PAPER=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
#> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
#> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
#>
#> attached base packages:
#> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
#>
#> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
#> [1] pillar_1.6.4 compiler_4.1.2 git2r_0.29.0 highr_0.9
#> [5] prettyunits_1.1.1 R.methodsS3_1.8.1 R.utils_2.11.0 remotes_2.4.1.9000
#> [9] tools_4.1.2 pkgbuild_1.2.0 digest_0.6.28 evaluate_0.14
#> [13] lifecycle_1.0.1 tibble_3.1.6 R.cache_0.15.0 pkgconfig_2.0.3
#> [17] rlang_0.4.12 reprex_2.0.1 rstudioapi_0.13 cli_3.1.0
#> [21] curl_4.3.2 yaml_2.2.1 xfun_0.28 fastmap_1.1.0
#> [25] withr_2.4.2 styler_1.6.2 stringr_1.4.0 knitr_1.36
#> [29] fs_1.5.0 vctrs_0.3.8 rprojroot_2.0.2 glue_1.5.0
#> [33] R6_2.5.1 processx_3.5.2 fansi_0.5.0 rmarkdown_2.11
#> [37] purrr_0.3.4 callr_3.7.0 magrittr_2.0.1 ps_1.6.0
#> [41] backports_1.3.0 ellipsis_0.3.2 htmltools_0.5.2 utf8_1.2.2
#> [45] stringi_1.7.5 crayon_1.4.2 R.oo_1.24.0
I just encountered an issue where installing package from a private repository using deployment tokens on gitlab fails when using
install_git
with the defaultgit2r
but works withexternal
git. I was first caught by the bug with the@
in the url but using the development verion ofremote
this seems to be resolved. Note that in the example below the message aboutterra
is unrelated.Created on 2021-11-24 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)