Unable to fetch multiple external sources into same directory. about chezmoi HOT 3 CLOSED

This approach is not currently possible because.chezmoiexternal.toml uses paths as keys and TOML does not allow duplicate keys.

You need to make the keys unique, which you would normally do by including the version number in the path. Unfortunately, it looks like the .NET SDKs do not include the version number in the root path (e.g. it puts files in ./packs/Microsoft.NETCore.App.Ref/8.0.1/, not in ./8.0.1/packs/Microsoft.NETCore.App.Ref/). Furthermore the .NET SDKs include files in the root path (like ./ThirdPartyNotices.txt) so trying to install multiple .NET SDKs in the same directory will lead to conflicts in these files.

The .NET SDKs are also 200MB compressed and 566MB uncompressed so you should not manage them with a chezmoi external because it will make chezmoi apply very slow as it has to both unpack the archive and check that the uncompressed contents match the 566MB of files on disk every time you run chezmoi apply.

So, use a run_once_ script to install the SDKs instead. I would create one run_once_ script for each version of the .NET SDK.

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What you want to do is not supported by externals. The definition of externals is a map where each key must be unique and does not support multiple URLs (if such were supported, it would not be clear to me whether those should be interpreted as "download and extract from all of these files" or "download and extract from one of these files; the others are mirror fallbacks").

I don't know anything about the .NET SDK, but some quick searching suggests that a .NET Core SDK is ~/.local/share/dotnet/sdk/VERSION. If the archives contain sdk/VERSION, then you should specify this as:

[".local/share/dotnet/sdk/VERSION1"]
url = "version1URL"
type = "archive"
stripComponents = 2

[".local/share/dotnet/sdk/VERSION2"]
url = "version2URL"
type = "archive"
stripComponent = 2

If the archives just contain VERSION, then stripComponents = 1.

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Ah, okay. Thanks for the feedback! I suspected it wasn't possible, but I was also aware of the fact that I simply may not have found the correct way to do it.

It sounds like the run_once_ script is the way to go.

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