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:Rocks update fails downloading manifest #645
Description
Recently this started happening:
[START][2025-05-16 14:56:19] rocks.nvim logging initiated
ERROR | 2025-05-16 14:57:27.584 | ....local/share/nvim/rocks/rocks_rtp/lua/rocks/luarocks.lua:65 | luarocks CLI FAILED
ERROR | 2025-05-16 14:57:27.584 | ....local/share/nvim/rocks/rocks_rtp/lua/rocks/luarocks.lua:66 | Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed downloading https://nvim-neorocks.github.io/rocks-binaries/dev/manifest-5.1 - failed downloading https://nvim-neorocks.github.io/rocks-binaries/dev/manifest-5.1
Error: No results matching query were found for Lua 5.1.
To check if it is available for other Lua versions, use --check-lua-versions.
ERROR | 2025-05-16 14:57:27.585 | ...im/rocks/rocks_rtp/lua/rocks/operations/helpers/init.lua:138 | Failed to install nvim-treesitter
ERROR | 2025-05-16 14:57:27.585 | ...are/nvim/rocks/rocks_rtp/lua/rocks/operations/update.lua:76 | UPDATE ERROR: Failed to update nvim-treesitter.
ERROR | 2025-05-16 14:58:14.820 | ...are/nvim/rocks/rocks_rtp/lua/rocks/operations/update.lua:176 | Update completed with errors! Run ':Rocks log' for details.
Specifically this error looks like a root cause:
Failed searching manifest: Failed downloading https://nvim-neorocks.github.io/rocks-binaries/dev/manifest-5.1 - failed downloading https://nvim-neorocks.github.io/rocks-binaries/dev/manifest-5.1
I've opened https://nvim-neorocks.github.io/rocks-binaries in browser and at the bottom of the page there is a 5.1 manifest but the url doesn't have dev path segment, while the one that :Rocks update is trying to fetch has dev segment in path and results in 404.
I have no idea why Rocks tries to fetch invalid URL or how to fix this.
Relevant (I think) info:
$ nvim --version
NVIM v0.11.0
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.1731601260
Excerpt from rocks.toml:
[plugins]
"rocks.nvim" = "2.44.0"
nvim-treesitter= "scm"
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mrcjkb commentedon May 16, 2025
Hey 👋
The failed downloading manifest is a luarocks warning, not an error. That's normal.
nvim-treesitter isn't on luarocks, because version 1.0 hasn't been released yet.
We've published a
nvim-treesitter-legacy-apirock (which provides the legacy API of themasterbranch of nvim-treesitter). If you want to use nvim-treesitter instead, install it with rocks-git.nvim.