Launching dev container and pnpm start <args> yields ambiguous error

[cdaringe]

problem

in the vscode devcontainer, post pnpm install, on run of install tool <any-tool-name> the following error occurs

$ pnpm start install tool java

> [email protected] start /workspaces/base
> tsx src/cli/index.ts "install" "tool" "java"

Ambiguous Syntax Error: Cannot find which to pick amongst the following alternatives:

  0. /opt/containerbase/tools/node/20.11.0/bin/node /workspaces/base/src/cli/index.ts install tool [-d,--dry-run] <name> [version]
  1. /opt/containerbase/tools/node/20.11.0/bin/node /workspaces/base/src/cli/index.ts install tool [-d,--dry-run] <name> [version]

[cdaringe]

looks like:

  cli.register(InstallGemCommand);
  cli.register(InstallNpmCommand);

redundantly register InstallToolCommand, which creates dupe entries. commenting those two out restores execution to working order

[rarkins]

Why are you running that command? Eg is it documented that you need to run it?

[cdaringe]

Why are you running that command?

debugging

Eg is it documented that you need to run it?

just common JS idioms for running stuff, and it was indeed present. Thus, I inferred it is present for running 🙂

I was able to use it to successfully debug my failure and get to a functional state

[viceice]

will see if I can fix the start command, but with very low priority