How to activate a self-hosted global Dart package with public dependencies?

Question

I have this package hosted on JetBrains Space:

name: my_package
description: Description of my package
version: 1.0.0
homepage: https://www.mywebsite.com

publish_to: https://dart.pkg.jetbrains.space/path/to/my/repo

environment:
  sdk: ^3.1.0

dependencies:
  glob: ^2.1.2

I did the following:

• dart pub token add https://dart.pkg.jetbrains.space/path/to/my/repo and entered the secret
• export PUB_HOSTED_URL=https://dart.pkg.jetbrains.space/path/to/my/repo (override the default pub.dev repo)
• dart pub global activate my_package and it fails with:

Because every version of my_package depends on glob any which doesn't exist (could not find package glob at
  https://dart.pkg.jetbrains.space/path/to/my/repo/), my_package is forbidden.
So, because pub global activate depends on my_package any, version solving failed.

Of course it doesn't find glob because I have configured dart pub to fetch on my private repo. But what I'm supposed to do? Re-hosting glob and all its transient dependencies? There must be a better way.

Answer 1

According to https://dart.dev/tools/pub/custom-package-repositories#retrieving-dependencies-from-a-custom-package-repository, I believe that you can explicitly specify the host URL for each dependent package with the hosted: property. For example:

dependencies:
  glob:
    hosted: https://pub.dev
    version: ^2.1.2

Alternatively, if your private package doesn't need to be a dependency for anything else, you could consider instead publishing it to a private Git repository and avoid using PUB_HOSTED_URL entirely.