FHIR Chat · Firely Terminal: Issues install local package

Stream: tooling

Topic: Firely Terminal: Issues install local package

Patrick Werner (Nov 15 2021 at 08:50):

We started to use firely terminal in our IG pipelines to install needed packages. Doing this we found 3 issues:

fhir install --file throws an error if the local package isn't known to the package servers:

fhir install Downloads/term_0.2.0.tgz --file                                                                                          ✔  4383  17:46:50
Added: molit.fhir.common-terminology 0.2.0.
Restore could not be completed.
Package not found: molit.fhir.common-terminology 0.2.0

Patrick Werner (Nov 15 2021 at 08:52):

fhir bake creates snapshots with missing/wrong ids on elements (@Alexander Zautke @Chris Moesel @Yannick Börner )

Patrick Werner (Nov 15 2021 at 08:52):

see: https://chat.fhir.org/#narrow/stream/215610-shorthand/topic/Bug.3A.20No.20element.20found.20at.20path

Patrick Werner (Nov 15 2021 at 08:53):

fhir install installs packages in: /root/.local/share/.fhir instead of /root/.fhir which then lets sushi & IG publisher fail (can be fixed with a symlink, would be nice of firely terminal always would use the correct/same folder as sushi/IG publisher

Martijn Harthoorn (Nov 17 2021 at 09:26):

I vaguely remember we had a specific reason to use .local/share/, I think it had to do with permissions.

Martijn Harthoorn (Nov 17 2021 at 09:27):

And of course there are a lot of users that now have their cache in there, which I cannot just bust. But I'll check what we can do. Maybe make it configurable.

Ewout Kramer (Nov 17 2021 at 09:29):

Wouldn't the Sushi/IG publisher have the same permission problems then?

Ewout Kramer (Nov 17 2021 at 09:30):

Would it be possible to use the same directory across tools and let the tools create the symlink so both situations work?

Grahame Grieve (Nov 17 2021 at 09:46):

there is a spec, @Martijn Harthoorn even wrote it. And that's root/.fhir

Ewout Kramer (Nov 17 2021 at 09:55):

I tried to check it out myself, but cannot find it. Where is it?

Ewout Kramer (Nov 17 2021 at 09:56):

I know about https://confluence.hl7.org/display/FHIR/FHIR+Package+Cache and https://confluence.hl7.org/display/FHIR/NPM+Package+Specification, but cannot find that location...

Martijn Harthoorn (Nov 17 2021 at 10:04):

https://confluence.hl7.org/display/FHIR/FHIR+Package+Cache
works for me.

Martijn Harthoorn (Nov 17 2021 at 10:24):

@Grahame Grieve , you're right. I can't remember why we changed in FT. I vaguely remember some Linux guy told me that I should not put it directly under ~/, but apparently I forgot to bring it up for discussion.

Grahame Grieve (Nov 17 2021 at 22:05):

well, it's kind of late to change it now - There's a lot of tooling out there following the spec

Patrick Werner (Nov 18 2021 at 10:58):

afaik there is no difference in permissions between ~ and ~/.local
.local ist normally was brought up by GNOME and is for "non-user-generated data" but for program data. I think firely terminal just should use ~/.local - how it is stated in the FHIR spec.