Postinstall binary download fails due to missing release assets (v0.6.0)

[tomLadder]

First off, thank you for creating & maintaining this library — it’s been really helpful for our project! ☺️

Problem

Since the latest release (v0.6.0), the package’s postinstall script downloads prebuilt binaries from the corresponding GitHub release.
However, in the most recent release, these assets were not attached.
As a result, the postinstall step fails with a download error, and the iOS build breaks due to missing native files.

To Reproduce

1. Install the latest version of @unomed/react-native-matrix-sdk
2. Run yarn install or npm install
3. Observe that the postinstall script fails to download binaries (HTTP 404 or similar)
4. Try to build the iOS app — compilation fails due to missing binaries in build/

Expected behavior

The release on GitHub should have the required binaries attached so the postinstall script can successfully fetch them, allowing iOS to build without manual steps.

Workaround

Currently, I build the required binaries locally as described in the script comments and move them manually (actually via postinstall) to: node_modules/@unomed/react-native-matrix-sdk/build

This restores the ability to build for iOS.

[Johennes]

Thanks for flagging this. I've just added the missing attachment on the latest release.

[tomLadder]

Thank @Johennes - the download works now!
Next problem is that the download-binaries.js script imports tar which is not installed because it is only declared under the devDependencies

# This file contains the result of Yarn building a package (@unomed/react-native-matrix-sdk@virtual:b50d718d99abf404c0dd1da88dcd6bde70be0f156979a8569d71159d62fd00e4ffd6ec96ba1758c497ced1a3f0d7410d1486b43135a302f513788245feeabda1#npm:0.6.0)
# Script name: postinstall

patch-package 8.0.0
Applying patches...
No patch files found
(node:75985) ExperimentalWarning: Use `importAttributes` instead of `importAssertions`
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
/Users/work/repos/matrix/.pnp.cjs:25496
      Error.captureStackTrace(firstError);
            ^

Error: @unomed/react-native-matrix-sdk tried to access tar, but it isn't declared in its dependencies; this makes the require call ambiguous and unsound.

Required package: tar
Required by: @unomed/react-native-matrix-sdk@virtual:b50d718d99abf404c0dd1da88dcd6bde70be0f156979a8569d71159d62fd00e4ffd6ec96ba1758c497ced1a3f0d7410d1486b43135a302f513788245feeabda1#npm:0.6.0 (via /Users/work/repos/matrix/.yarn/unplugged/@unomed-react-native-matrix-sdk-virtual-e8e000c8eb/node_modules/@unomed/react-native-matrix-sdk/scripts/)

Require stack:
- /Users/work/repos/matrix/.yarn/unplugged/@unomed-react-native-matrix-sdk-virtual-e8e000c8eb/node_modules/@unomed/react-native-matrix-sdk/scripts/download-binaries.js
    at require$$0.Module._resolveFilename (/Users/work/repos/matrix.pnp.cjs:25496:13)
    at require (node:internal/modules/esm/translators:133:30)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/work/repos/matrix/.yarn/unplugged/@unomed-react-native-matrix-sdk-virtual-e8e000c8eb/node_modules/@unomed/react-native-matrix-sdk/scripts/download-binaries.js:7:13)
    at loadCJSModule (node:internal/modules/esm/translators:161:3)
    at ModuleWrap.<anonymous> (node:internal/modules/esm/translators:196:7)
    at ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:271:25)
    at async onImport.tracePromise.__proto__ (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:578:26)
    at async asyncRunEntryPointWithESMLoader (node:internal/modules/run_main:116:5)

Node.js v22.14.0

[Johennes]

Argh. 😕

I've tweaked the dependencies with #36. We'll need another release for this to take effect though.

[Johennes]

Should be fine in 0.6.1 now. Thanks again for the report.

[tomLadder]

Thanks, that fix should do it. Although it breaks because the new release is called 0.6.1 instead of v0.6.1. The download script requires the v before the version number else we get a 404

[tomLadder]

@Johennes