Cocoapods: Unable to find a specification for [PrivateSpec] depended upon by [PrivateClientSpec]

Question

I am trying to use private repositories to break up a larger application. I have followed the guides at:

• http://www.objectpartners.com/2014/06/25/developing-p

Answer 1

The reason is that the pod spec linter is only checking the master specs, so it can't find your private one.

You'll need to use the --sources option, like this:

pod spec lint --sources='git@our-private-spec-repo:iOS/Specs.git,https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs'

Two things two note:

• Your private specs need to be online, can't check on a local one
• If you depend on other pods you'll need to add the URL for their Spec repo too, that's why in the example we have https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs too.

By running pod spec lint --help you can read more about this option:

--sources=https://github.com/artsy/Specs   The sources from which to pull
                                           dependant pods (defaults to
                                           https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git).
                                           Multiple sources must be
                                           comma-delimited.

More on this here and here