How to solve `shard name (?) has ambiguous sources: ...` error?

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My project add two shards, one of them depend on the https://github.com/schovi/baked_file_system.git, but another one depend on the https://github.com/ralsina/baked_file_system.git, both dependency use same name, latter is the fork of the former.

then i get error like following when shards install.

Error shard name (baked_file_system) has ambiguous sources:
 'git: https://github.com/schovi/baked_file_system.git' and 
'git: https://github.com/ralsina/baked_file_system.git'.

How to solve this issue?

Thanks.

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Is it possible to only use one of them?

3

You cannot use two shards with same name but different repositories. Also, both are exposing the same entry point, which will affect require.

I would recommend you pick one or the other as second one is a fork of the first one.

4

https://crystal-lang.org/reference/1.12/man/shards/index.html#fixing-dependency-version-conflicts

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5

It works, I’ve never realized that this hack could also be used to change shard‘s dependencies.

Add shard.override.yml like this works!

dependencies:
  baked_file_system:
    github: schovi/baked_file_system
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I suggest you use the other one, it’s the exact same code with a bugfix :slight_smile:

7

It’s seem like just not get hidden file/folder baked into binary, this behavior is expected, those codes were added intentionally, to avoid the user added hidden user data to the binary accidentally, i consider it is not a bug.

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