(cli) trouble publishing to private github packages

Affected Packages

changeset:cli

Problem

I am using the changeset/cli (version, publish) in my github actions workflow for a private GH repo in a private GH organization.

I had npx changeset version working for a moment, using unscoped package names, and npx changeset publish was failing. In order to fix publish, I learned that Github Packages needs package names to be “scoped”. I changed all my package*.json files, code imports and dependencies to use @my-org/some-pkg. Now npx changeset version is failing.

I’m seeing these errors (below) in github action after I merge a PR to main. What’s interesting to note is the old package name dslio appears, but it should say @my-org/dslio. Perhaps the problem is the unscoped name comes from a previous commit? The only place in my repo where this name appears unscoped is in packages/dslio/CHANGELOG.md. Could the CHANGELOG file be the culprit?

Run npx changeset version
🦋  error Error: Could not find package information for dslio
🦋  error     at /home/runner/work/ods/ods/node_modules/@changesets/assemble-release-plan/dist/assemble-release-plan.cjs.dev.js:279:15
🦋  error     at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
🦋  error     at /home/runner/work/ods/ods/node_modules/@changesets/assemble-release-plan/dist/assemble-release-plan.cjs.dev.js:271:44
🦋  error     at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
🦋  error     at flattenReleases (/home/runner/work/ods/ods/node_modules/@changesets/assemble-release-plan/dist/assemble-release-plan.cjs.dev.js:266:14)
🦋  error     at Object.assembleReleasePlan [as default] (/home/runner/work/ods/ods/node_modules/@changesets/assemble-release-plan/dist/assemble-release-plan.cjs.dev.js:496:18)
🦋  error     at version (/home/runner/work/ods/ods/node_modules/@changesets/cli/dist/cli.cjs.dev.js:599:60)
🦋  error     at async run$2 (/home/runner/work/ods/ods/node_modules/@changesets/cli/dist/cli.cjs.dev.js:1337:[11](https://github.com/wm-msc-malt/ods/runs/6588470015?check_suite_focus=true#step:9:12))
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

Here is my GH workflow.

name: Release

on:
  # pull_request_target:
  #   types:
  #     - "closed"
  push:
    branches:
      - main

env:
  AWS_REGION: us-west-2
  HUSKY: 0
  NPM_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
  GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

concurrency: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}

jobs:
  release:
    name: Release
    # if: github.event.pull_request.merged == true
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Show GitHub context
        env:
          GITHUB_CONTEXT: ${{ toJson(github) }}
        run: echo "$GITHUB_CONTEXT"

      # https://github.com/marketplace/actions/github-script
      # - name: View context attributes
      #   uses: actions/github-script@v6
      #   with:
      #     script: console.log(context)

      - name: Checkout Repo
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Setup Node.js
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: 14.x
          cache: "npm"

      - name: Update NPM
        run: npm install -g npm@8.9

      - name: Install Dependencies
        run: npm ci

      - name: Setup NX
        uses: nrwl/nx-set-shas@v2
        # main-branch-name: 'main'
      - run: |
          echo "BASE: ${{ env.NX_BASE }}"
          echo "HEAD: ${{ env.NX_HEAD }}"
          npx nx affected:apps

      - name: Changeset Version
        # you should not commit any changes between calling version and publish
        # https://github.com/changesets/changesets/tree/main/packages/cli#publish
        run: |
          npx changeset version
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

      - name: NX Build Affected Packages
        run: npm run ci-affected-build

      - name: Changeset Publish
        # you should not commit any changes between calling version and publish
        # https://github.com/changesets/changesets/tree/main/packages/cli#publish
        run: |
          npx changeset publish
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

      # # example from https://www.christopherbiscardi.com/post/shipping-multipackage-repos-with-github-actions-changesets-and-lerna
      # - name: Publish Affected Packages
      #   run: npm run ci-affected-publish
      #   env:
      #     NPM_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}

      # - name: Create Release Pull Request
      #   uses: changesets/action@v1
      #   env:
      #     GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

      # - name: Git Identity
      #   run: |
      #     git config --global user.name 'github-actions[bot]'
      #     git config --global user.email 'github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com'
      #     git remote set-url origin https://x-access-token:${GITHUB_TOKEN}@github.com/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY
      #   env:
      #     GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Proposed solution

No idea.

[cyrfer]

It worked! It’s done. Finally.

Adding the https url (not the git url) to each package was the final piece of the puzzle. https://docs.github.com/en/packages/working-with-a-github-packages-registry/working-with-the-npm-registry#publishing-multiple-packages-to-the-same-repository

thanks @pmcelhaney for the support!

[cyrfer]

I fixed the Github registry problem. Now I’m looking at this:

I wonder if the action assumes I published once before. I’ll try to publish from my local using a PAT.

🦋  error an error occurred while publishing @omitted-org/omitted-okg: E404 Not Found - PUT https://npm.pkg.github.com/@omitted-org%2fomitted-okg - The expected resource was not found. 
🦋  error 
🦋  error  '@omitted-org/omitted-okg@1.0.2' is not in this registry.
🦋  error 
🦋  error Note that you can also install from a
🦋  error tarball, folder, http url, or git url.
🦋  error npm notice Publishing to https://npm.pkg.github.com/
🦋  error npm ERR! code E404
🦋  error npm ERR! 404 Not Found - PUT https://npm.pkg.github.com/@omitted-org%2fomitted-okg - The expected resource was not found.
🦋  error npm ERR! 404 
🦋  error npm ERR! 404  '@omitted-org/omitted-okg@1.0.2' is not in this registry.
🦋  error npm ERR! 404 
🦋  error npm ERR! 404 Note that you can also install from a
🦋  error npm ERR! 404 tarball, folder, http url, or git url.
🦋  error {
🦋  error   "error": {
🦋  error     "code": "E404",
🦋  error     "summary": "Not Found - PUT https://npm.pkg.github.com/@omitted-org%2fomitted-okg - The expected resource was not found.",
🦋  error     "detail": "\n '@omitted-org/omitted-okg@1.0.2' is not in this registry.\n\nNote that you can also install from a\ntarball, folder, http url, or git url."
🦋  error   }
🦋  error }