Cocoapods: Unable to find a specification for `PUBLIC POD` depended upon by 'PRIVATE POD'

Question

I keep running into the error specified in the title. I am trying to deploy private pods by this tutorial: https://medium.com/onfido-tech/distributing-compiled-swift-frameworks-via-cocoapods-8cb67a584d57 the problem is that the framework I want to deploy has one dependency. And due to that dependency I am getting this error, although I have already tried things like: pod repo update and also adding source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git' along with my private repo source in a test projects Podfile.

My current cocoapods version is 1.9.1.

Answer 1

Most likely you first have to add the private pod spec source (ie pods 'https://github.com/MY_GITHUB_USER/MyPrivateSpecs.git' ) source on top of the public pods source ( source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git' ).

Cocoapods will first search and resolve dependencies from the private pods specs repository. If unsolved it will search and resolve dependencies in the public pod spec repository.