Ambiguous error messages

[givensuman]

I'm in the process of building an image and have noticed some of the error messages are ambiguous at best and misleading at worst.

I hope to add to this as I continue to explore this project. Unfortunately draft issues aren't a thing so right now it's a short list.

"Is a directory"

modules:
   - from-file: ../directory # this causes the error

ERROR => Failed:  
× Recipe ./recipes/recipe.yml failed to validate
     ╰─▶   × Is a directory (os error 21)

A line number or reference to the from-file key would be helpful.

Old ./config references

If I cd into ./recipes and run bluebuild build, I get:

WARN => Use of ./config for recipes is deprecated, please move your recipe files into ./recipes
ERROR => Failed:  
× File ./config/recipe.yml must exist

This is confusing because I am not using ./config per the warning, and the error is telling me to use ./config.

[gmpinder]

bluebuild is always expected to run in the root of your image repository. This is because it needs to be able to mount files/ and modules/ into the build as needed. The recipes/ directory was created for keeping it separate from the build context and allow for better repeatability. The from-file: will always be relative to the recipes/ directory. You can see more information from my blog post.

As for bad error messages, yes that's something we try to address as we come across them. I'll try to find where these come from.