Repo error with cordova: "The CocoaPods repo has not been synced yet"

[distinctdan]

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What did you do?

Ran cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-firebasex

What happened instead?

The install failed with the error:

Failed to install 'cordova-plugin-firebasex': undefined
CordovaError: Promise rejected with non-error: 'The CocoaPods repo has not been synced yet, this will take a long time (approximately 500MB as of Sept 2016). Please run pod setupfirst to sync the repo.'

I then tried running pod setup, which did nothing, then pod install in my ios project directory, which installed 0 dependencies.

Running pod repo update errors also: Errno::ENOENT - No such file or directory @ rb_sysopen - /Users/MyUsername/.cocoapods/repos/Spec_Lock

CocoaPods Environment

Stack

   CocoaPods : 1.8.3
        Ruby : ruby 2.3.7p456 (2018-03-28 revision 63024) [universal.x86_64-darwin18]
    RubyGems : 2.5.2.3
        Host : Mac OS X 10.14.6 (18G103)
       Xcode : 11.1 (11A1027)
         Git : git version 2.9.2
Ruby lib dir : /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib
Repositories : 

Installation Source

Executable Path: /usr/local/bin/pod

Plugins

cocoapods-deintegrate : 1.0.4
cocoapods-plugins     : 1.0.0
cocoapods-search      : 1.0.0
cocoapods-stats       : 1.1.0
cocoapods-trunk       : 1.4.1
cocoapods-try         : 1.1.0

Podfile

# DO NOT MODIFY -- auto-generated by Apache Cordova

platform :ios, '9.0'

target 'Orbus' do
	project 'Orbus.xcodeproj'

end

[dnkoutso]

You are hitting multiple issues. The first is a bug in Cordova and assumes CocoaPods works with the master specs repo. Since 1.8.x the master specs repo is not required.

The second issue is #9216.

[dnkoutso]

You are better off filing this issue with Cordova cocoapods plugin.

[dnkoutso]

Closing as the Spec_Lock issue is already filed and known issue. The other issue as I said it is better to file to them.

[dnkoutso]

It seems their plugin assumes the master specs repo is there but as I said CocoaPods no longer clones the master specs repo by default in 1.8.x so the plugin should not expect that to happen.

[distinctdan]

Ok, thanks for the info. I was able to work around the issues by downgrading to 1.7.5, syncing the repo, then upgrading to 1.8.3. I'll file an issue on the cordova plugin page too, or link this one.

[dnkoutso]

thank you!