How to build chectl outside Che

Summary

Because of the situation with #21366, I’m now stuck in a situation where I don’t have a Che cluster deployed and can’t redeploy it. I planned to build the old version myself but found that the documentation expects me to develope chectl only from inside Che; is there any documentation on building it outside of itself?

Relevant information

I tried to run yarn as instructed, incase that would just work. Here’s the output I got:

yarn install v1.22.18
[1/5] Validating package.json...
[2/5] Resolving packages...
success Already up-to-date.
$ npm run -s postinstall-repositories && npm run -s postinstall-operator && npm run -s postinstall-cleanup
yarn upgrade v1.22.18
[1/5] Validating package.json...
[2/5] Resolving packages...
[3/5] Fetching packages...
[4/5] Linking dependencies...
warning "eslint-config-oclif > eslint-config-xo-space@0.20.0" has incorrect peer dependency "eslint@^5.3.0".
warning "eslint-config-oclif-typescript > @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin@2.34.0" has incorrect peer dependency "eslint@^5.0.0 || ^6.0.0".
warning "eslint-config-oclif-typescript > @typescript-eslint/parser@2.34.0" has incorrect peer dependency "eslint@^5.0.0 || ^6.0.0".
[5/5] Rebuilding all packages...
success Saved lockfile.
success Saved 1 new dependency.
info Direct dependencies
└─ eclipse-che-operator@0.0.0
info All dependencies
└─ eclipse-che-operator@0.0.0
Done in 7.76s.
internal/fs/utils.js:332
    throw err;
    ^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat '/home/yujiri/chectl/node_modules/eclipse-che-operator/config/samples/org_v1_chebackupserverconfiguration.yaml'
    at Object.lstatSync (fs.js:1119:3)
    at Object.lstatSync (/home/yujiri/chectl/node_modules/graceful-fs/polyfills.js:307:34)
    at statFunc (/home/yujiri/chectl/node_modules/fs-extra/lib/util/stat.js:24:20)
    at getStatsSync (/home/yujiri/chectl/node_modules/fs-extra/lib/util/stat.js:25:19)
    at Object.checkPathsSync (/home/yujiri/chectl/node_modules/fs-extra/lib/util/stat.js:67:33)
    at Object.copySync (/home/yujiri/chectl/node_modules/fs-extra/lib/copy-sync/copy-sync.js:24:38)
    at prepareTemplates (/home/yujiri/chectl/prepare-che-operator-templates.js:46:12)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/yujiri/chectl/prepare-che-operator-templates.js:55:1)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1085:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1114:10) {
  errno: -2,
  syscall: 'lstat',
  code: 'ENOENT',
  path: '/home/yujiri/chectl/node_modules/eclipse-che-operator/config/samples/org_v1_chebackupserverconfiguration.yaml'
}
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/install for documentation about this command

[tolusha]

Actually this issue helped me realize that our release actions behave incorrectly. This action [1] is triggered once .x branch is created (even before release PR is merged). So, release sources won’t have updated package.json file.

@mkuznyetsov pls have a look.

[1] https://github.com/che-incubator/chectl/blob/0a7174a56b1ce6902613be3243001e25347fa983/.github/workflows/release-build-and-push-to-GH-releases.yml#L18

[nickboldt]

well, this change has broken the release process because the GH action that creates the release PR needs the branch to exist 😃 will work on a fix…

https://github.com/che-incubator/chectl/actions/runs/3540932049/jobs/5944574155