[Bug] Scoop Not Recognizing Local Config

[alliter8]

Bug Report

Current Behavior

Scoop reverts to creating and using a config.json file in the %USERPROFILE%\.config\scoop folder, regardless of whether a config.json file exists within the scoop installation dir (i.e., %USERPROFILE%\scoop\config.json).

Relates to Feature Request 4498 and its implementation in 5369.

Expected Behavior

If there is a config.json file in the scoop installation folder (e.g., %USERPROFILE%\scoop), scoop should defer to that file. It should not still create a .config folder, a config.json file within it, or ignore the config.json in the scoop root folder. (Additionally, scoop should not recreate the external folder and file if deleted in deference to using a local portable config file—even if scoop is not installed on portable media.)

Additional context/output

I created a config.json in the scoop root dir (C:\Users\%USERNAME%\scoop\) and renamed the folder the original %USERPROFILE%\.config folder to hide it. I wanted to test if a local config file in the root folder would actually work. As soon as I invoked scoop in the terminal again, though, it recreated .config\scoop\config.json. Ticket 5369 gives the following instructions:

. . . Is there something more required to make scoop recognize the local scoop\config.json? Is %USERPROFILE%\scoop\ the wrong place in the "root directory" for the config.json file?

Possible Solution

N/A

System details

Windows version: 10

OS architecture: 64bit

PowerShell version: v7.4.0-preview.4

Additional software: Git, curl, aria2, etc. installed with scoop.

Scoop Configuration

%USERPROFILE%\scoop\config.json:

{
  "last_update": "2023-08-01T10:12:02.9999183-07:00",
  "update_nightly": true,
  "default_architecture": "64bit",
  "aria2-enabled": false,
  "scoop_branch": "master",
  "scoop_repo": "https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop"
}

%USERPROFILE%\.config\scoop\config.json:

{
  "last_update": "2023-08-01T09:34:47.2919489-07:00",
  "update_nightly": true,
  "default_architecture": "64bit",
  "aria2-enabled": false,
  "scoop_repo": "https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop",
  "scoop_branch": "develop"
}

[HUMORCE]

Cannot reproduce.

~
❯ cd scoop
~\scoop
❯ scoop config

alias                 : @{aliases=scoop-aliases; rife=scoop-rife; cd=scoop-cd; buckets=scoop-buckets; sync=scoop-sync;
                        sp=scoop-sp; ccache=scoop-ccache}
debug                 : True
aria2-enabled         : False
use_lessmsi           : False
last_update           : 8/2/2023 1:27:32 AM
proxy                 : none
hold_update_until     : 1/22/2096 12:00:00 AM
scoop_branch          : develop
scoop_repo            : git@github.com:HUMORCE/scoop.git
aria2-warning-enabled : False


~\scoop
❯ ni config.json

    Directory: C:\Users\humorce\scoop

Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
-a---            8/2/2023  1:53 AM              0 config.json

~\scoop
❯ scoop config
~\scoop
❯ mv ~\.config\scoop ~\.config\scoop.bak
~\scoop
❯ scoop config
~\scoop
❯ test-path ~\.config\scoop
False

I guess this is the cause:

{
  "last_update": "2023-08-01T10:12:02.9999183-07:00",
  "update_nightly": true,
  "default_architecture": "64bit",
  "aria2-enabled": false,
  "scoop_branch": "master",    <-------------------------- #5369 has not been merged into master branch yet.
  "scoop_repo": "https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop"
}

scoop update will switch to the branch that specified in configs.

[alliter8]

Resolved itself. Closing.