Publishing a package to a local version of hexpm

r11na · July 19, 2018, 11:09am

I’m trying to run a private version of hexpm.

I have the hexpm application running on my local machine however I can’t figure out how to publish packages to it, it keeps trying to publish to hex.pm and it is hard to find any info on it.

I’ve setup a local repo pointing to my local version of hexpm and it shows up as expected when I run mix hex.repo list, but I can’t get my packages into it.

Any ideas?

kelvinst · July 30, 2018, 12:31pm

Why do you need a local version of hex? If what you need are private packages, what about using the organizations feature from hex.pm? It’s paid, but it could pay out all the effort, and you also would be helping the community to grow!

r11na · July 30, 2018, 4:27pm

It’s not up to me unfortunately

I don’t control the purse strings for this project but it definitely is the better option imho.

asummers · July 30, 2018, 6:52pm

@kelvinst A local version of Hex would be useful in the face of Hex connectivity issues. We’re unable to currently deploy because of Hex image pull connectivity errors, and a local Hex would allow one to bypass that externality. Private Nexus servers are extraordinarily common in the Java world, and things like private NPM servers exist in JS.

kelvinst · July 30, 2018, 8:46pm

Yeah, I know, I just asked to know the real reason behind creating a local version of hex. About not being up to you: another option would be to use path dependencies instead of hex.pm ones, or even using umbrella projects. The other option is what you have tried, but I never done it so I can’t help unfortunately.

asummers · July 30, 2018, 11:43pm

@r11na Seems like this is the config you want to override. Unless you already did that.

github.com

hexpm/hex/blob/master/lib/mix/tasks/hex.config.ex#L16


@moduledoc """
## List config keys and values


    mix hex.config


## Get or delete config value for KEY


    mix hex.config KEY [--delete]


## Set config KEY to VALUE


    mix hex.config KEY VALUE


## Config keys


  * `api_key` - Your API key. If you are authenticated this config will override
    the API key used for your authenticated user. Can be also be overridden by
    setting the environment variable `HEX_API_KEY`
  * `api_url` - Hex API URL. Can be overridden by setting the environment
    variable `HEX_API_URL` (Default: `"https://hex.pm/api"`)
  * `offline` - If set to true Hex will not fetch the registry or packages and

asummers · July 30, 2018, 11:47pm

github.com

hexpm/hex/blob/eeed0ce93ca5ed91b21e4f3ddd7b6a37a94a98be/lib/hex/config.ex#L88


end


defp decode_elixir(string) do
  {term, _binding} = Code.eval_string(string)
  term
end


def read_repos(config, repos_key \\ Hex.State.fetch!(:repos_key)) do
  hexpm = Hex.Repo.default_hexpm_repo(repos_key)


  (config[:"$repos"] || %{})
  |> Hex.Repo.merge_hexpm(hexpm)
  |> Hex.Repo.update_organizations()
end


def update_repos(repos) do
  config_repos =
    repos
    |> Hex.Repo.clean_organizations()
    |> Hex.Repo.clean_hexpm()

Hmm I wonder if this is a bug. Shouldn’t the config repos supersede the default?