slalpha3 - Not honoring different distrubution about ballerina-update-tool HOT 8 CLOSED

Which Ubuntu version you are using? Could you please share the output you get for sudo bal -v?
Please let us know whether the following solution works:

• Remove ~/.ballerina/ballerina-version file
• Try bal -v

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Its running on a debian:jessie pod within a kubernetes cluster (an admin/quick test pod).

I just checked and ~/.ballerina/ballerina-version does not exist:

ls  ~/.ballerina/
Settings.toml  repositories

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Its running on a debian:jessie pod within a kubernetes cluster (an admin/quick test pod).

I just checked and ~/.ballerina/ballerina-version does not exist:

ls  ~/.ballerina/
Settings.toml  repositories

When we issue bal dist use, if the ballerina-version file is not there, it should be created. Could you please share the output you get for sudo bal -v as well?

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The pod is running as root and there is no out-of-the-box in debian:jessie (not best practice to run a root level pod, I know 😄 )

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For what its worth I also tried this using ballerina/ballerina:latest:

bash-5.0$ bal -v
Ballerina Swan Lake Alpha 4
Language specification v2020-12-17
Update Tool 1.3.1

bash-5.0$ bal dist pull 1.2.6
Fetching the '1.2.6' distribution from the remote server...
Downloading 1.2.6 100% [===========================================================] 110/110 MB (0:00:03 / 0:00:00)

Fetching the dependencies for '1.2.6' from the remote server...
Downloading jdk8u202-b08-jre 100% [==================================================] 39/39 MB (0:00:00 / 0:00:00)
'1.2.6' successfully set as the active distribution

bash-5.0$ bal dist list
/ballerina/runtime/bin/bal: line 54: /ballerina/runtime/bin/../dependencies/jdk8u202-b08-jre/bin/java: No such file or directory

bash-5.0$ bal -v
Error: Ballerina is supported only on JDK 1.8
/ballerina/runtime/bin/bal: line 105: /ballerina/runtime/bin/../dependencies/jdk8u202-b08-jre/bin/java: No such file or directory

bash-5.0$ bal dist use 1.2.6
/ballerina/runtime/bin/bal: line 54: /ballerina/runtime/bin/../dependencies/jdk8u202-b08-jre/bin/java: No such file or directory

bash-5.0$ ls /ballerina/runtime/dependencies/jdk8u202-b08-jre/bin/java
/ballerina/runtime/dependencies/jdk8u202-b08-jre/bin/java

bash-5.0$ ls -lah /ballerina/runtime/dependencies/jdk8u202-b08-jre/bin/java
-rwxrwxrwx    1 ballerin troupe      8.5K Apr 21 15:31 /ballerina/runtime/dependencies/jdk8u202-b08-jre/bin/java

bash-5.0$ id
uid=100(ballerina) gid=1000(troupe) groups=1000(troupe)

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For what its worth I also tried this using ballerina/ballerina:latest:

bash-5.0$ bal -v
Ballerina Swan Lake Alpha 4
Language specification v2020-12-17
Update Tool 1.3.1

bash-5.0$ bal dist pull 1.2.6
Fetching the '1.2.6' distribution from the remote server...
Downloading 1.2.6 100% [===========================================================] 110/110 MB (0:00:03 / 0:00:00)

Fetching the dependencies for '1.2.6' from the remote server...
Downloading jdk8u202-b08-jre 100% [==================================================] 39/39 MB (0:00:00 / 0:00:00)
'1.2.6' successfully set as the active distribution

bash-5.0$ bal dist list
/ballerina/runtime/bin/bal: line 54: /ballerina/runtime/bin/../dependencies/jdk8u202-b08-jre/bin/java: No such file or directory

bash-5.0$ bal -v
Error: Ballerina is supported only on JDK 1.8
/ballerina/runtime/bin/bal: line 105: /ballerina/runtime/bin/../dependencies/jdk8u202-b08-jre/bin/java: No such file or directory

bash-5.0$ bal dist use 1.2.6
/ballerina/runtime/bin/bal: line 54: /ballerina/runtime/bin/../dependencies/jdk8u202-b08-jre/bin/java: No such file or directory

bash-5.0$ ls /ballerina/runtime/dependencies/jdk8u202-b08-jre/bin/java
/ballerina/runtime/dependencies/jdk8u202-b08-jre/bin/java

bash-5.0$ ls -lah /ballerina/runtime/dependencies/jdk8u202-b08-jre/bin/java
-rwxrwxrwx    1 ballerin troupe      8.5K Apr 21 15:31 /ballerina/runtime/dependencies/jdk8u202-b08-jre/bin/java

bash-5.0$ id
uid=100(ballerina) gid=1000(troupe) groups=1000(troupe)

Seems the file is there and it has permissions as well.

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Is there any specific use case for switching distribution within a pod? If you want only 1.2.6, then you can try using ballerina/ballerina:1.2.6.

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@jimk-osu
Thank you reporting this. We have review packing update tool in docker image and since there are issues in the environment and make it simple, we have decided to remove update tool functionality from ballerina image. Therefore now we cannot use ballerina update tool commands in docker and we need to use docker ballerina image versions in order to switch in between.

I will be closing the issue, please feel free to reopen if there are any concerns

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