Tauri Signer Workspace Not Found

[elanzini]

(1) I am trying to use the Tauri CLI to sign updates as described here.
I am running: npm run tauri signer generate -w ~/.tauri/myapp.key
And I am getting this error:

npm ERR! No workspaces found:
npm ERR!   --workspace=/Users/edo/.tauri/myapp.key

(The folder /Users/edo/.tauri) exists.

The CLI works without the -w flag but I was wondering what a workspace is and if I should create one.

(2) Also, here it mentions that the signature parameter is necessary and that:

"signature" is the content of the .sig file which was generated by Tauri's CLI.

But no .sig file is generated by the Tauri CLI without the -w argument.

(3) Is it possible to use the Updater functionality without having Code signed the application?

[FabianLars]

1: You need a set of -- to tell npm to forward the args to Tauri:

npm run tauri signer generate -- -w ~/.tauri/myapp.key

p.s. i'm rewriting the guide rn so that will be clearer soon.

2: Once you set the keys and the updater up it will generate the sig files.

3: Yes, the .sig files and tauri keys are not related to code signing. It's just to verify the updater bundles after downloading them. If you actually mean this and not real code signing then no, it's required.

[FabianLars]

The .sig file is generated on tauri build, it changes on each change. The file will be next to the bundle, see https://tauri.app/v1/guides/distribution/updater#bundler-artifacts

[elanzini]

That's clear thanks. I followed the docs here to check for updates and on my server, I return 204 with No Content is the user is running on the latest version, as detailed here.

Nonetheless, I am seeing Tauri API error: Network Error: Json Error: EOF while parsing a value at line 1 column 0 being thrown by the checkUpdate function.

The code on my express server backend just does res.status(204).send(); in case the version of the app from the user matches with the latest.

[elanzini]

I got a bit further and I am now getting this when it tries to update:

thread 'tokio-runtime-worker' panicked at 'application failed to start: Os { code: 2, kind: NotFound, message: "No such file or directory" }', /Users/edo/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/tauri-1.0.5/src/api/process.rs:87:8
thread 'tokio-runtime-worker' panicked at 'application failed to start: Os { code: 2, kind: NotFound, message: "No such file or directory" }', /Users/edo/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/tauri-1.0.5/src/api/process.rs:87:8

Have you seen this before?

[FabianLars]

Not really no. Checking the source code it's where the restart function is declared. https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/blob/1.0/core/tauri/src/api/process.rs#L87

no idea what the issue is, when does that error happen?

[elanzini]

I think it was happening because I was running in dev.