cocoapods: An unexpected version directory was encountered. How do I fix this?

Question

I am running CocoaPods to add a dependency to my project.

My pod file is located at Users/myUser/Desktop/project/project.

It looks like this:

source 'https://github.com/hackiftekhar/IQKeyboardManager.git'

pod 'IQKeyboardManager'

xcodeproj '../project.xcodeproj'

and it is named Podfile.

When I run pod install, I get this output:

Analyzing dependencies

[!] An unexpected version directory Categories was encountered for the /Users/myUser/.cocoapods/repos/hackiftekhar/IQKeyboardManager Pod in the IQKeyboardManager repository.

What is CocoaPods expecting here and how can I fix this?

Thanks,

C

Answer 1

How to fix this is described in the Cocoapod repo, issue 6089.

Jest of it copied here in case link breaks in the future:

1. Starting point

I try to create a private pod.

• Environment: Xcode 8 Cocoapods 1.1.1

• My Pods file tree:

looks like this

.
├── LICENSE
├── MoudlePod3
│   ├── 0.0.1
│   │   └── MoudlePod3.podspec
│   ├── TestObject3.h
│   └── TestObject3.m
├── MoudlePod3.podspec
└── README.md

• run pod install

Everything is perfect!

• Change creating the issue: Then I add some new folder and files to the pod Updated pods file tree:

. ├── LICENSE ├── MoudlePod3 │ ├── 0.0.1 │ │ └── MoudlePod3.podspec │ ├── 0.0.4 │ │ └── MoudlePod3.podspec │ ├── NewClass │ │ ├── TestObjectNew.h │ │ └── TestObjectNew.m │ ├── TestObject3.h │ └── TestObject3.m ├── MoudlePod3.podspec └── README.md

• Increment podspec version to 0.0.4

• Update client's podfile as follow: Demo Project Pod file:

  source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git' source 'http:///ljb/MoudlePod3.git'

  target 'MoudleApp' do pod 'MoudlePod3', '~> 0.0.4' end

• run pod install

[!] An unexpected version directory NewClass was encountered for the /Users/apple/.cocoapods/repos/MoudlePod3/MoudlePod3 Pod in the MoudlePod3 repository.

3. Explanation & solution from @benasher44 : Ah, so source 'http:///ljb/MoudlePod3.git' means that it expects that to be a specs repo, but it looks like you're trying to combine a specs repo and the repo where you keep the code for your pod, which is unsupported. You should instead remove the custom source line and do something like pod 'MoudlePod3', '~> 0.0.4', :git => ''. Checkout https://guides.cocoapods.org/using/the-podfile.html#from-a-podspec-in-the-root-of-a-library-repo for more info.

or in my case fix the source line to point to the private specs repo not the pod's source repo... Doh!

Hope that helps.