Most Cloud Posse projects install
build-harness under the project's repository root to manage things like building Docker images or generating
README.md from
README.yaml. In turn,
build-harness installs some tools it needs when it needs them. We had been using
INSTALL_PATH to determine where
build-harness installs its tools, intending that they be installed under the
build-harness tree, but this is in conflict with Geodesic, which uses
INSTALL_PATH to determine where to install the Geodesic wrapper/command. This was causing
build-harness to install
gomplate in
/usr/local/bin , which was not the intention.
So we changed build-harness to install its tools into PACKAGES_INSTALL_PATH instead. Unfortunately, this broke some workflows, particularly pre-commit workflows, which use
INSTALL_PATH to direct where
build-harness installs tools needed for the workflow. The quick fix is to replace
INSTALL_PATH with
PACKAGES_INSTALL_PATH in the workflow where the intent is to have
build-harness install tools in a particular directory.