Gem Cleanup breaks fastlane in macOS about fastlane

[lacostej]

Isn't that expected?

gem cleanup will uninstall all old versions of gems, and in this case it removes the older versions of google-cloud-env which are required for fastlane to work.

If you run gem cleanup again, it will probably fail again, unless you have also removed the newer version of google-cloud-env.

Personally I recommend using bundler and a local cache of your dependencies so that you do not depend on globally installed gems.

[Break4ever]

Same issue !

In my opinions, "gem cleanup" is a routine executed command for period time because stack a lot of versions package would effect fastlane performance

And now we can't clean up old version packages, it doesn't make sense

[harrimaatta]

Yep. I have noticed that if I run fastlane env, it prints out the basic set

[✔] 🚀 
[15:42:56]: Get started using a Gemfile for fastlane https://docs.fastlane.tools/getting-started/ios/setup/#use-a-gemfile
[15:42:57]: Generating fastlane environment output, this might take a few seconds...
✅ fastlane environment ✅
Stack



Key
Value




OS
14.3.1


Ruby
3.3.0


Bundler?
false


Git
git version 2.39.3 (Apple Git-145)


Installation Source
/opt/homebrew/opt/ruby/bin/fastlane


Host
macOS 14.3.1 (23D60)


Ruby Lib Dir
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ruby/3.3.0/lib


OpenSSL Version
OpenSSL 3.2.0 23 Nov 2023


Is contained
false


Is homebrew
false


Is installed via Fabric.app
false


Xcode Path
/Applications/Xcode15.2.app/Contents/Developer/


Xcode Version
15.2


Swift Version
5.9.2



System Locale



Variable
Value





LANG
en_US.UTF-8
✅


LC_ALL
en_US.UTF-8
✅


LANGUAGE
en_US.UTF-8
✅



fastlane files:
No Fastfile found
No Appfile found
fastlane gems



Gem
Version
Update-Status




fastlane
2.219.0
✅ Up-To-Date



Loaded fastlane plugins:
No plugins Loaded
Loaded gems



Gem
Version




error_highlight
0.6.0


did_you_mean
1.6.3


syntax_suggest
2.0.0


addressable
2.8.6


artifactory
3.0.15


jmespath
1.6.2


aws-partitions
1.887.0


aws-eventstream
1.3.0


aws-sigv4
1.8.0


aws-sdk-core
3.191.0


aws-sdk-kms
1.77.0


aws-sdk-s3
1.143.0


babosa
1.0.4


bundler
2.5.6


rexml
3.2.6


CFPropertyList
3.0.6


colored
1.2


highline
2.0.3


commander
4.6.0


dotenv
2.8.1


emoji_regex
3.2.3


excon
0.109.0


faraday-em_http
1.0.0


faraday-em_synchrony
1.0.0


faraday-excon
1.1.0


faraday-httpclient
1.0.1


multipart-post
2.3.0


faraday-multipart
1.0.4


faraday-net_http
1.0.1


faraday-net_http_persistent
1.2.0


faraday-patron
1.0.0


faraday-rack
1.0.0


faraday-retry
1.0.3


ruby2_keywords
0.0.5


faraday
1.10.3


faraday_middleware
1.2.0


domain_name
0.6.20240107


http-cookie
1.0.5


faraday-cookie_jar
0.0.7


fastimage
2.3.0


gh_inspector
1.1.3


google-cloud-env
1.6.0


json
2.7.1


jwt
2.7.1


mini_magick
4.12.0


naturally
2.2.1


optparse
0.4.0


plist
3.7.1


rubyzip
2.3.2


security
0.1.3


simctl
1.6.10


terminal-notifier
2.0.0


unicode-display_width
2.5.0


terminal-table
3.0.2


tty-screen
0.8.2


tty-cursor
0.7.1


tty-spinner
0.9.3


word_wrap
1.0.0


atomos
0.1.3


claide
1.1.0


colored2
3.1.2


nanaimo
0.3.0


xcodeproj
1.24.0


rouge
2.0.7


xcpretty
0.3.0


xcpretty-travis-formatter
1.0.1


set
1.1.0


public_suffix
5.0.4


httpclient
2.8.3


multi_json
1.15.0


signet
0.18.0


os
1.1.4


googleauth
1.8.1


mini_mime
1.1.5


retriable
3.1.2


trailblazer-option
0.1.2


declarative
0.0.20


uber
0.1.0


representable
3.2.0


google-apis-core
0.11.3


google-apis-androidpublisher_v3
0.54.0


google-apis-playcustomapp_v1
0.13.0


rake
13.1.0


digest-crc
0.6.5


google-apis-storage_v1
0.31.0


google-apis-iamcredentials_v1
0.17.0


google-cloud-errors
1.3.1


google-cloud-core
1.6.1


google-cloud-storage
1.47.0


forwardable
1.3.3


logger
1.6.0


pathname
0.3.0


shellwords
0.2.0


cgi
0.4.1


date
3.3.4


timeout
0.4.1


securerandom
0.3.1


uri
0.13.0


openssl
3.2.0


digest
3.1.1


ipaddr
1.2.6


resolv
0.3.0


time
0.3.0


stringio
3.1.0


open-uri
0.4.1


mutex_m
0.2.0


net-http
0.4.1


net-protocol
0.2.2


connection_pool
2.4.1


net-http-persistent
4.0.2


patron
0.13.3


ostruct
0.6.0


english
0.8.0


erb
4.0.4


abbrev
0.1.2


tempfile
0.2.1


delegate
0.3.1


fileutils
1.7.2


tmpdir
0.2.0


base64
0.2.0


singleton
0.2.0


open3
0.2.1


nkf
0.2.0


prettyprint
0.2.0


pp
0.5.0


find
0.2.0


yaml
0.3.0


psych
5.1.2




generated on: 2024-02-16

Then gem list googleauth lists versions

*** LOCAL GEMS ***
googleauth (1.11.0, 1.8.1)

Now, if I run a command gem cleanup, it removes some related packages:

Attempting to uninstall google-cloud-storage-1.47.0
Successfully uninstalled google-cloud-storage-1.47.0
Attempting to uninstall google-apis-playcustomapp_v1-0.13.0
Successfully uninstalled google-apis-playcustomapp_v1-0.13.0
Attempting to uninstall google-apis-iamcredentials_v1-0.17.0
Successfully uninstalled google-apis-iamcredentials_v1-0.17.0
Attempting to uninstall google-apis-androidpublisher_v3-0.54.0
Successfully uninstalled google-apis-androidpublisher_v3-0.54.0
Attempting to uninstall google-apis-core-0.11.3
Successfully uninstalled google-apis-core-0.11.3
Attempting to uninstall googleauth-1.8.1
Successfully uninstalled googleauth-1.8.1
Attempting to uninstall google-apis-storage_v1-0.31.0
Successfully uninstalled google-apis-storage_v1-0.31.0
Clean up complete

And gem list googleauth prints

*** LOCAL GEMS ***
googleauth (1.11.0)

So, it has removed previous version(s), as expected.

And now fastlane env gives

/opt/homebrew/lib/ruby/site_ruby/3.3.0/rubygems/specification.rb:1474:in `block in activate_dependencies': can't satisfy 'google-cloud-env (>= 1.6.0, < 2.0.0)', already activated 'google-cloud-env-2.1.1' (Gem::LoadError)
	from /opt/homebrew/lib/ruby/site_ruby/3.3.0/rubygems/specification.rb:1466:in `each'
	from /opt/homebrew/lib/ruby/site_ruby/3.3.0/rubygems/specification.rb:1466:in `activate_dependencies'
	from /opt/homebrew/lib/ruby/site_ruby/3.3.0/rubygems/specification.rb:1448:in `activate'
	from /opt/homebrew/lib/ruby/site_ruby/3.3.0/rubygems.rb:280:in `block in activate_bin_path'
	from /opt/homebrew/lib/ruby/site_ruby/3.3.0/rubygems.rb:279:in `synchronize'
	from /opt/homebrew/lib/ruby/site_ruby/3.3.0/rubygems.rb:279:in `activate_bin_path'
	from /opt/homebrew/opt/ruby/bin/fastlane:25:in `<main>'

Now, a command gem uninstall fastlane && gem install fastlane fixes this. We can see that fastlane env prints out same set (not gonna paste it again), but a command gem list googleauth gives updated list, with addition 1.8.1:

*** LOCAL GEMS ***
googleauth (1.11.0, 1.8.1)

I am not that expert level that I could proposal fixes, but maybe either lock the gem package googleauth 1.8.1 so cleanup wouldn't remove it as a needed package or then upgrade fastlane to support the latest version of googleauth?

[lacostej]

google-cloud-env is locked to a version pre-2.0 to support ruby 2.6. We are not able to drop support for ruby 2.6 now due to Apple being stuck with it on its ecosystem. See #21685

This isn't really an issue in itself. The issue is that you are doing things in a way that isn't compatible with keeping different set of dependencies for different project on your machine.

You should really stop managing all your dependencies in one place. Using cleanup in combination to your setup will keep causing issues.

I recommend that you

• use bundler to manage your dependencies per project. Maintain a Gemfile.
• consider installing your dependencies in a folder local to your project. bundle config set --local path '.bundle' or bundle config set --local path 'vendor/bundle. Cleanup is thus local to your project.
• always run bundle install before running bundle exec fastlane to make sure your dependencies are up to date.

I'll close this for now, as this isn't really an issue on fastlane side. Hope that helped. Feel free to reopen if you have more question on the topic.