Encountered an unknown error when doing 'sudo tap update'

[dotexe1337]

The system is Debian Sid on amd64

michael@dimensional-rift:~/Sources/tap$ sudo tap update
>> Reading APT cache...  
>> Updating APT cache...  
>> Updating MPR cache...  
>> Updating other cache files...  

>> Encountered an unknown error.
>> Full traceback at '/tmp/tap-w9p8e08e'.

/tmp/tap-w9p8e08e:

michael@dimensional-rift:~/Sources/tap$ sudo cat /tmp/tap-w9p8e08e 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/tap/main.py", line 72, in main
    _main()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/tap/main.py", line 67, in _main
    operations[cfg.operation]()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/tap/update.py", line 66, in update
    _upgrade()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/tap/upgrade.py", line 28, in _upgrade
    rpc_data = cfg.mpr_cache.package_dicts[i.name]
KeyError: 'tap'

I tried re-installing tap with no luck.

[hwittenborn]

Could you send over the contents of /var/cache/tap/mpr-cache.json? I'm suspecting this is an issue from something on the MPR itself (though Tap should also be handling it correctly when the situation arises).

[dotexe1337]

/var/cache/tap/mpr-cache.json just has 2 lines with an open bracket on one and close bracket on the other. No data in there.

[dotexe1337]

I installed makedeb from the apt repo and then installed tap with makedeb.

[hwittenborn]

That adds up, that's the error I was seeing in the MPR.

I think the issue is that Tap finds all packages that are marked as MPR packages, but if the packages can't be found in the MPR cache (such as is the case here with the bracket scenario), the error you got above occurs.

I'll see if I can get that fixed shortly.

[dotexe1337]

Awesome. Thank you! :)

[dotexe1337]

Hi, I just tried tap again and it works now! So I guess whichever changes were made in the last few hours have fixed it.

michael@dimensional-rift:~$ sudo tap search discord
>> Reading APT cache...  
>> Reading MPR cache...  
>> Reading package descriptions...  
>> Generating results...  
discord/0.0.16-6 [MPR]
  Chat for Communities and Friends

discord-canary/0.0.131-1 [MPR]
  Chat for Communities and Friends

discord-ptb/0.0.26-2 [MPR]
  Chat for Communities and Friends. PTB branch.

libdatetime-calendar-discordian-perl/1.0-2.1 [APT]
  Perl extension for the Discordian Calendar

php-symfony-discord-notifier/5.4.2+dfsg-3 [APT]
  Symfony Discord Notifier Bridge

purple-discord/0.9.2021.11.24.git.de899b3-1 [APT]
  Discord messaging service plugin for libpurple

ruby-discordrb-webhooks/3.4.2-2 [APT]
  webhook client for discordrb

samblaster/0.1.26-3 [APT]
  marks duplicates, extracts discordant/split reads

/var/cache/tap/mpr-cache.json is now full of data too! :)

[hwittenborn]

That's my bad, I should've posted that I added the fix in the MPR :o

I'm gonna keep the issue open for the time being though, because the underlying issue still needs to be fixed.

[dotexe1337]

Alright. I'm just happy that it works now for me :)