Full-icu tries to install a version of icu4c-data (68l) that doesn't exist

[lukeundtrug]

Hi there,

it seems I'm encountering a bug where in our CI pipeline full-icu tries to install a version of icu4c-data that does not exist. When trying to install this version locally I get the same error as shown in the screenshot. Does anybody encounter the same problem?

[lukeundtrug]

It seems that there just isn't a package up on npm for v.68.2/68l yet as can be seen here:

A rollback to Node v14.15.0 fixed the issue for us as the corresponding ICU version for that is 67l for which a tag does exist 👍

[marcwittke]

my Fedora with nodejs 14.17.0 already requires 69l

npm install icu4c-data@69l (Node 16.5.0 and small-icu 69.1) -> icudt69l.dat
Looks like you are using yarn…
full-icu$ /usr/bin/node /usr/lib/node_modules/yarn/bin/yarn.js add icu4c-data@69l --no-lockfile --ignore-scripts
yarn add v1.22.10
info No lockfile found.
[1/4] Resolving packages...
error Couldn't find any versions for "icu4c-data" that matches "69l"

solved it for now by downgrading to 14.16.0: dnf install nodejs-14.16.0

[santiago-perez-axa]

Same problem here with the latest Node LTS version 14.17.5.

12 verbose stack icu4c-data: No matching version found for icu4c-data@69l.

[LyraelRayne]

@srl295 any chance you could rescue us the way you did in #46 ?

[srl295]

I'd really rather get help with #53, that would solve this permanently

[srl295]

Try #53 it fixes this

[LyraelRayne]

@srl295 That looks great, although I don't have access to the systems which need it in order to test (maybe sometime I'll try and create one, but I don't normally use RedHat). Will this be something that "just works" if people update to the latest full-icu in package.json?

This issue would have affected anybody using RedHat's Universal Base Image because for some reason Node doesn't detect the files installed by nodejs-full-i18n-14.17.5-1.module+el8.4.0+12247+e2879e58.x86_64.rpm . RedHat's "Universal Base Image" https://cdn-ubi.redhat.com/content/public/ubi/dist/ubi8/8/x86_64/appstream/os/Packages/n/ doesn't give users the option to downgrade node versions (only one v14 version is available) and they recently upgraded to an affected version of the package.

[srl295]

@srl295 That looks great, although I don't have access to the systems which need it in order to test (maybe sometime I'll try and create one, but I don't normally use RedHat). Will this be something that "just works" if people update to the latest full-icu in package.json?

This issue would have affected anybody using RedHat's Universal Base Image because for some reason Node doesn't detect the files installed by nodejs-full-i18n-14.17.5-1.module+el8.4.0+12247+e2879e58.x86_64.rpm . RedHat's "Universal Base Image" https://cdn-ubi.redhat.com/content/public/ubi/dist/ubi8/8/x86_64/appstream/os/Packages/n/ doesn't give users the option to downgrade node versions (only one v14 version is available) and they recently upgraded to an affected version of the package.

Yes it will "just work".

[marcwittke]

fwiw: node 16+ includes full-icu by default, so we removed it from our package.json and the error went away

https://nodejs.org/docs/latest-v16.x/api/intl.html#embed-the-entire-icu-full-icu

--with-intl=full-icu (default)

[srl295]

@marcwittke yes, although removal should not be necessary:

• if full icu data is built into node, then the full-icu module doesn't do anything (harmless)

• if you upgrade to the latest full-icu without a later node, the download should succeed.

But of course it's fine to remove a module you will no longer need.

[johnnygreen]

hi ...
the env i'm in has node v18 with small-icu, completely locked down / using private npm reg.
its trying to download the file from gh, no go.
tried to use FULL_ICU_PREFER_NPM=1 ... results in npm download failing with icu4c-data@731 404

requesting team to change my env to full-icu ... but would be nice for the npm package to exist.

[srl295]

@johnnygreen i assume gh is locked down somehow... sorry, i don't think i can add the packages.

perhaps you could follow https://github.com/nodejs/icu4c-data-npm and make your own package? you can use the API in full-icu to verify that you have the right datafile.