dependencyUpdates task not finding any updates

[ColtonIdle]

Long time user of this plugin. recently converted my app to use version catalogs. it seems like after that change i have lost the ability to use this plugin.

i tried to create a repro project, but in the simple apps everything works fine with version catalogs + this plugin.

my question is... is there any ideas you have to help me debug why this plugin cant find any updates? it doesn't seem like the plugin never scans my app module at all. i wonder if a convention plugin i have is somehow overriding my root build.gradle file or somethign so its not picking up the tasks?

[ben-manes]

It works in Caffeine. Are you using precompiled script plugins to add your dependencies? That acts like a composite build so you have to also run it there directly. I think buildSrc might be similar.

[ben-manes]

Oh… you can use —info to see if anything stands out.

There was something about the configuration cache breaking dependency resolution by faking the results when querying a cached configuration. Did you enable that?

[ColtonIdle]

on a whim i just removed my use of convention plugins (i have a pretty simple app). and still nothing. 😂 😭
what the heck could be going on...

[ColtonIdle]

ooh. org.gradle.configuration-cache=true. maybe i need to set that to false. lets see!

[ColtonIdle]

AHHH THAT WAS IT! Thank you for the tip! I guess I'll disable config cache for now. cheers!

[ben-manes]

Here’s the Gradle explanation and my debugging. The confusion is that configuration-cache.problems=warn forces it on even though this plugin requests it to be disabled when it’s task is run. Caffeine enables the cache but doesn’t force it on like that.