Solver resolution error even though binary exists (and install.packages() works)

[pat-s]

Can't wrap my head around the following error.

tibble was a random choice. Also applies to others. Any idea what might be going on?

docker run --rm -it devxygmbh/r-alpine:4.4-3.20 sh

R -q -e 'packageVersion("pkgdepends")'
[1] ‘0.8.0’

# same with devel
R -q -e 'install.packages("pak", repos = sprintf("https://r-lib.github.io/p/pak/stable/%s/%s/%s", .Platform$pkgType, R.Version()$os, R.Version()$arch))'

R -q -e 'available.packages()[which(grepl("^tibble$", available.packages()[, "Package"])), c(1,2)]'
 Package  Version 
"tibble"  "3.2.1" 

R -q -e 'length(available.packages()[, "Package"])'
[1] 20170

pak::repo_get()
# A data frame: 6 × 5
  name          url                                 type  r_version bioc_version
* <chr>         <chr>                               <chr> <chr>     <chr>       
1 CRAN          https://cran.devxy.io/arm64/alpine… cran  *         NA          
2 BioCsoft      https://bioconductor.org/packages/… bioc  4.4.2     3.20        
3 BioCann       https://bioconductor.org/packages/… bioc  4.4.2     3.20        
4 BioCexp       https://bioconductor.org/packages/… bioc  4.4.2     3.20        
5 BioCworkflows https://bioconductor.org/packages/… bioc  4.4.2     3.20        
6 BioCbooks     https://bioconductor.org/packages/… bioc  4.4.2     3.20  

R -q -e 'pak::pak("tibble")'

Error: 
! error in pak subprocess
Caused by error: 
! Could not solve package dependencies:
* tibble: Can't find package called tibble.

R -q -e 'install.packages("tibble")'

* installing *binary* package ‘glue’ ...
* DONE (glue)
* installing *binary* package ‘utf8’ ...
* DONE (utf8)
* installing *binary* package ‘fansi’ ...
* DONE (fansi)
* installing *binary* package ‘magrittr’ ...
* DONE (magrittr)
* installing *binary* package ‘pkgconfig’ ...
* DONE (pkgconfig)
* installing *binary* package ‘rlang’ ...
* DONE (rlang)
* installing *binary* package ‘lifecycle’ ...
* DONE (lifecycle)
* installing *binary* package ‘vctrs’ ...
* DONE (vctrs)
* installing *binary* package ‘pillar’ ...
* DONE (pillar)
* installing *binary* package ‘tibble’ ...
* DONE (tibble)

The downloaded source packages are in
	‘/tmp/RtmphGGmkB/downloaded_packages’
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Making 'packages.html' ... done

[gaborcsardi]

This is probably not what you want:

~ # curl -s https://cran.devxy.io/arm64/alpine320/latest/src/contrib/PACKAGES | grep '^Package:' | wc -l
20175
~ # curl -s https://cran.devxy.io/arm64/alpine320/latest/src/contrib/PACKAGES.gz | gzip -cd | grep '^Package:' | wc -l
6310

[pat-s]

Argh, CDN cache. Thanks a lot!