podspec specification does not validate

Question

I'm trying to create a cocoa pod following this tutorial. I'm stuck at the moment where I'm doing the following command:

pod repo push RWPodSpecs RWPickFlavor.podspec

the problem is that I've got the following error:

Validating spec
[!] The `RWPickFlavor.podspec` specification does not validate.

And not further error description unfortunately. What I tried was reinstalling cocoapods and installing cocoapods keys, but it didn't help. I'm still getting the same error. Any ideas, guys?

score 25 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 02 '18 at 09:29

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I solved this issue by adding option --allow-warnings.

answered Nov 02 '18 at 09:29

Shuitao

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score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 12 '16 at 03:18

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While the OP's issue was fixed, using this command will give more information about anyone else's issue. For me, I forgot to push the new version tag to my remote.

pod repo push [repo] [podspec] --verbose

answered Mar 12 '16 at 03:18

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@Aleksandr, you can change the chosen accepted answer if you'd like :) – Jay Whitsitt Dec 20 '17 at 19:56
really? How to do that? – Zaporozhchenko Oleksandr Dec 21 '17 at 01:34
I believe you can click on the check mark on the existing chosen answer to remove it, then select the new one. – Jay Whitsitt Dec 21 '17 at 02:07
Oh, sure u can do that, if u're an owner of a question. I can't :) – Zaporozhchenko Oleksandr Dec 21 '17 at 02:20

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 15 '16 at 09:20

Oh, the problem was very simple actually. I was simply being unobservant. In my .podspec file I had one of the urls formatted like that : ["https://github.com/Andrey-C/RWPickFlavor.git"]. Once I removed the square brackets around the url the error vanished.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 11 '21 at 21:06

Sometimes pod spec lint doesn't update changes (this is because of cache).

Once I fixed some errors specified by lint, pushed, updated tag, etc., and ... got the same errors as before.

So you can fix it by cleaning cache:

cd /Users/<#your-user-directory#>/Library/Caches/CocoaPods/Pods

just delete /Pods directory and pod spec lint will work again

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 29 '16 at 06:41

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For me, I needed to add a revision tag to my master branch and then git push with all tags before the pod trunk push would pass validation.

answered Apr 29 '16 at 06:41

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Alexander Perechnev · Answer 6 · 2016-01-15T09:03:30.763

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Use the following command:

pod trunk push RWPickFlavor.podspec

It publishes your newly created pod to CocoaPods repository, creating a pod with name that specified in your .podspec file.

You also have to use such command to publish a new version of your pod.

edited Jan 15 '16 at 09:03

answered Jan 15 '16 at 08:58

Alexander Perechnev

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podspec specification does not validate

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