Cannot be used with `--override_repository`: cannot load '@@rules_java//java:repositories.bzl': no such file

[guw]

We are using rules_jvm without problems with this in the workspace:

load("@contrib_rules_jvm//:repositories.bzl", "contrib_rules_jvm_deps")

contrib_rules_jvm_deps()

load("@contrib_rules_jvm//:setup.bzl", "contrib_rules_jvm_setup")

contrib_rules_jvm_setup()

However, as soon as we add --override_repository= rules_jvm=/path/to/rules_jvm the build fails with:

ERROR: Error computing the main repository mapping: at /Users/.../.cache/bazel/.../external/contrib_rules_jvm/setup.bzl:4:6: cannot load '@@rules_java//java:repositories.bzl': no such file
Computing main repo mapping: 
    Fetching repository @@contrib_rules_jvm_deps; starting

Note, the outer build is running with --noenable_bzlmod (Bazel 7.0.1) because we have not migrated yet.

[shs96c]

The flag should be --override_repository=rules_jvm=/path/to/repository. If for some reason the build is using bzlmod (and I see from your comment you don't expect this to be the case), the flag is --override_module and it should work in the same way.

[guw]

@shs96c Sorry, that was a typo on my end. We use --noenabled_bzlmod as given in the comment above. Not sure why it's not loading rules_java. Maybe it needs a maybe in contrib_rules_jvm_deps?