Incorrect update hint for global installs

[piejanssens]

➜  ~ ui5 --version
1.13.1 (from /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/lib/node_modules/@ui5/cli/bin/ui5.js)


   ╭──────────────────────────────────────╮
   │                                      │
   │   Update available 1.13.1 → 2.4.4    │
   │     Run npm i @ui5/cli to update     │
   │                                      │
   ╰──────────────────────────────────────╯

1. installed globally (missing -g)
2. major version update requires explicit major version to be specified. see https://docs.npmjs.com/cli-commands/update.html#updating-globally-installed-packages

FYI npm i -g @ui5/cli@latest doesn't upgrade a major version either. npm i -g @ui5/cli 2 will update to latest (2.4.4).

[RandomByte]

Hey, could you please share your Node.js and npm versions?

We use update-notifier for this, which I think should handle this correctly already. @ui5/cli v1.13.1 used v4.0.0 of that module.

[piejanssens]

➜  ~ npm --version
6.13.4
➜  ~ node --version
v12.15.0

[matz3]

Could you please try to run this and post the printed result?

cd /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/lib/node_modules/@ui5/cli
node -p "require(\"global-dirs\")"

It should log the paths which are used to detect whether the package is installed globally.
Maybe this differs within your setup. I wasn't able to reproduce this with the same CLI version.

[piejanssens]

➜  ~ cd /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/lib/node_modules/@ui5/cli
➜  cli node -p "require(\"global-dirs\")"
{
  npm: {
    prefix: '/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/node@12/12.15.0',
    packages: '/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/node@12/12.15.0/lib/node_modules',
    binaries: '/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/node@12/12.15.0/bin'
  },
  yarn: {
    prefix: '/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/node@12/12.15.0',
    packages: '/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/node@12/12.15.0/global/node_modules',
    binaries: '/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/node@12/12.15.0/global/node_modules/.bin'
  }
}

[matz3]

That looks fine and the check should detect that the module is installed globally.

Could you please give some more details to allow us reproducing this on our side?
Which linux distribution do you use and how (native / Docker / WSL / ...)?
I was unable to reproduce this with the docker image node:12.15.0.

Regarding your second point about major updates:
I could not completely verify that.
When doing npm i -g @ui5/[email protected] and then npm i -g @ui5/cli (as suggested by the hint if it works correctly) I will get version 2.4.4, as expected.

[piejanssens]

WSL with Ubuntu 18.04

[matz3]

Thanks, I'll try to reproduce the issue there.

[piejanssens]

I went back to 1.13.1 by doing npm -g uninstall @ui5/cli then npm i -g @ui5/[email protected] and it's no longer showing the update hint:

➜  ~ npm i -g @ui5/[email protected]                                                                                                                                           
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/ui5 -> /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/lib/node_modules/@ui5/cli/bin/ui5.js                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                        
> [email protected] postinstall /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/lib/node_modules/@ui5/cli/node_modules/core-js                                                                  
> node -e "try{require('./postinstall')}catch(e){}"                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                        
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The project needs your help! Please consider supporting of core-js on Open Collective or Patreon:                                                                       
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npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: [email protected] (node_modules/@ui5/cli/node_modules/fsevents):                                                           
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})       
                                                                                                                                                                        
+ @ui5/[email protected]                                                                                                                                                       
added 960 packages from 867 contributors in 51.93s                                                                                                                      
➜  ~ ui5 --version                                                                                                                                                      
1.13.1 (from /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/lib/node_modules/@ui5/cli/bin/ui5.js)                                                                                           
➜  ~                                                                                                                                                                    

In addition, this time when I follow this with npm i -g @ui5/cli as you did it also installs 2.4.4... 😕

[RandomByte]

it's no longer showing the update hint

There's a delay of 24 hours from detection until the update hint is displayed: https://github.com/yeoman/update-notifier#how

[matz3]

I could reproduce the issue with Ubuntu 18.04 on WSL.
It seems to be related to the homebrew installation and how the "global-dirs" package resolves the paths.
The result above is in fact not correct as /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/node@12/12.15.0/lib/node_modules (from global-dirs) and /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/lib/node_modules (where the global packages are installed to) are different folders which is the reason why the global check fails.

I'll collect all details to open an issue in global-dirs, as this is a general problem, not related to our CLI.

Update:
It's specific to the homebrew formula node@12. With the default node (which currently installs node v14), there are no issues.

[piejanssens]

@matz3 Nice find!

[matz3]

Closing this issue, please see sindresorhus/global-directory#17 for further progress