flavours: Cannot run `update all`

cryptic error, .config/flavours does not exist after running the flavours update all, I do see stuff inside ~/Library/Application\ Support/flavours/base16

/usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/libsecret/git-credential-libsecret get: /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/libsecret/git-credential-libsecret: No such file or directory
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': terminal prompts disabled
fatal: cannot change to '/Users/user/Library/Application Support/flavours/base16/schemes/solarized': No such file or directory
/usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/libsecret/git-credential-libsecret get: /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/libsecret/git-credential-libsecret: No such file or directory
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': terminal prompts disabled
fatal: cannot change to '/Users/user/Library/Application Support/flavours/base16/schemes/ia': No such file or directory
Error: Git failed to run on repository 'https://github.com/aramisgithub/base16-ia-scheme'. Check if your repo list is valid.

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Created a year ago
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Have the same problem and ^ these fixes doesn’t seem to help. flavours update schemes is what is giving the error. And I feel stuck not being able to use the program in any way. Really want to, though.

It seems that a few of the scheme sources are no longer available, breaking the update process. Specifically ia: https://github.com/aramisgithub/base16-ia-scheme and solarized: https://github.com/aramisgithub/base16-solarized-scheme.
(When trying to access the github I only get a 404.)

Fixing this should be as easy as commenting both out in $XDG_DATA_HOME/flavours/base16/sources/schemes/list.yml. (Where $XDG_DATA_HOME defaults to $HOME/.local/share, so $HOME/.local/share/flavours/base16/sources/schemes/list.yml.)

Though if you use flavours update list, (or flavours update all, which internally calls this,) you will have to modify it again.

titaniumtraveler on Sep 11, 2023

I guess this works for now :S

cd "~/Library/Application Support/flavours/base16"
gsed -i '/aram/d' sources/schemes/list.yaml
flavours update templates
flavours update schemes

Sleepful on Jun 5, 2023

For a simple solution that doesn’t degrade as themes go 404, I would just vendor the current themes, i.e. download all the source files and use that as truth, maybe in a separate repo. At least that gives a good starting gallery to new users and the gallery doesn’t break.

Sleepful on Nov 27, 2023