Hey yall! Im having a problem upgrading from pants 2.23, we use devbox to manage non-python package dependencies for the environment, and it puts all the binaries into

.devbox/nix/profile/default/bin

This has worked great for us, up until pants 2.24, we started getting this error

IntrinsicError: path_metadata_request error: path for PathNamespace.SYSTEM must be an absolute path. Instead, got

.devbox/nix/profile/default/bin

I believe this is because we have the binary path set in the pants.toml

[system-binaries].system_binary_paths

, when we remove the relative devbox path the error stops, but then pants no longer has those binaries available Is there any special keyword like

<PATH>

that we can use, but for

<PROJECT_ROOT>

or something? Its hard to put an absolute path here, as its different on every developers machine.

Is the relative path under the build root?

Yes, its adjacent to the

pants.toml

file

PR https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/22024 is the fix but landed in time for 2.26.x.

Oh I see, thank you! I thought it was landing in 2.25 for some reason