mise use adding tool options from backend

[jdx]

I thought this was fixed but apparently not

❯ mise use [email protected]
mise Installed executable into /Users/jdickey/.local/share/mise/installs/opentofu/1.6.2/tofu
mise [email protected]  ✓ installed
mise mise.toml tools: [email protected]
❯ cat mise.toml
[tools]
opentofu = { version = "1.6.2", exe = "tofu" }

[roele]

What exactly is the expected behaviour?

Currently the default backend for opentofu is aqua which does not define/require any options.

mise use [email protected]
mise WARN  aqua:opentofu/[email protected] can be verified with cosign but cosign is not installed
mise [email protected] ✓ installed

cat mise.toml
[tools]
opentofu = "1.6.2"

The ubi backend registry entry defines an [exe=tofu] option but this is not used with mise use ubi:opentofu/[email protected].

Is this issue about applying these registry options automatically by default?

[jdx]

ok I was able to repro on a different machine (mise 2025.4.4):

Looks like for some reason mise use is porting over the backend options from ubi?

doctor:

version: 2025.4.4 macos-arm64 (2025-04-15)
activated: no
shims_on_path: no

build_info:
  Target: aarch64-apple-darwin
  Features: DEFAULT, NATIVE_TLS, SELF_UPDATE
  Built: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 01:53:51 +0000
  Rust Version: rustc 1.86.0 (05f9846f8 2025-03-31) (Homebrew)
  Profile: release

shell:
  /usr/local/bin/fish
  fish, version 4.0b1

dirs:
  cache: ~/.mise/cache
  config: ~/.config/mise
  data: ~/.mise
  shims: ~/.mise/shims
  state: ~/.local/state/mise

config_files:
  ~/.config/mise/config.toml
  /private/var/folders/03/nk908szn7b35qksv9m08v7mw0000gn/T/tmp.l6Jf8tuGYR/mise.toml

ignored_config_files: (none)

backends:
  aqua
  asdf
  cargo
  core
  dotnet
  gem
  go
  npm
  pipx
  spm
  ubi
  vfox

plugins:
  1password                     https://github.com/NeoHsu/asdf-1password-cli.git#f5d5aab
  aapt2                         https://github.com/ronnnnn/asdf-aapt2.git#79e513a
  android-sdk                   https://github.com/mise-plugins/mise-android-sdk.git#a44eb2b
  asdf-jdx-mise-tiny            https://github.com/jdx/mise-tiny.git#ce6f92f
  asdf-jtakakura-asdf-wren-cli  https://github.com/jtakakura/asdf-wren-cli.git#e130979
  asdf-neovim                   https://github.com/richin13/asdf-neovim.git#cc53c89
  jdx/mise-tiny
  bashly                        https://github.com/pcrockett/asdf-bashly.git#a02cc53
  crystal                       https://github.com/mise-plugins/mise-crystal.git#7af37cf
  jib                           https://github.com/mise-plugins/mise-jib.git#69b17a5
  neovim                        https://github.com/richin13/asdf-neovim.git#cc53c89
  nim                           https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-nim.git#d35061b
  oci                           https://github.com/yasn77/asdf-oci.git#4b228f4
  php                           https://github.com/mise-plugins/mise-php.git#e361a2c
  pipx                          https://github.com/mise-plugins/mise-pipx.git#31db618
  poetry                        [email protected]:mise-plugins/mise-poetry.git#f2fe51c
  shfmt                         https://github.com/luizm/asdf-shfmt.git#a42c5ff
  swiftformat                   https://github.com/younke/asdf-swiftformat.git#ab1f91f
  swiftlint                     https://github.com/klundberg/asdf-swiftlint.git#447f94c
  tiny                          https://github.com/mise-plugins/mise-tiny.git#db27878
  tuist                         https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-tuist.git#44c87b2
  xcbeautify                    https://github.com/mise-plugins/asdf-xcbeautify.git#48563a3

toolset:
  aqua:aws/[email protected]
  aqua:hashicorp/[email protected]
  aqua:jdx/[email protected]
  aqua:koalaman/[email protected]
  aqua:opentofu/[email protected]
  core:[email protected]+7
  core:[email protected]
  core:[email protected]
  npm:[email protected]
  pipx:[email protected]
  ubi:watchexec/[email protected]

path:
  ~/.mise/installs/opentofu/1.6.2
  ~/.mise/installs/awscli/2.24.10/aws-cli.pkg/Payload/aws-cli
  ~/.mise/installs/hk/0.4.1
  ~/.mise/installs/java/temurin-23.0.2+7/bin
  ~/.mise/installs/node/23.10.0/bin
  ~/.mise/installs/npm-prettier/3.5.2/bin
  ~/.mise/installs/python/3.13.1/bin
  ~/.mise/installs/shellcheck/0.10.0/shellcheck-v0.10.0
  ~/.mise/installs/terraform/1.10.5
  ~/.mise/installs/watchexec/2.2.1/bin
  ~/.mise/installs/yamllint/1.35.1/bin
  ~/.proto/shims
  ~/.proto/bin
  ~/Library/pnpm
  ~/bin
  ~/.local/bin
  ~/.cargo/bin
  ~/go/bin
  ~/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/Toolbox/scripts
  /opt/jetbrains/bin
  /opt/homebrew/bin
  /opt/homebrew/sbin
  /opt/homebrew/opt/ruby/bin
  /opt/homebrew/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/bin
  /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin
  /home/jdx/.cargo/bin
  /home/jdx/go/bin
  /home/jdx/.local/bin
  /usr/local/bin
  /System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin
  /usr/bin
  /bin
  /usr/sbin
  /sbin
  /var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin
  /var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin
  /var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin
  /Library/Apple/usr/bin
  /usr/local/MacGPG2/bin
  /Applications/Ghostty.app/Contents/MacOS

env_vars:
  MISE_FISH_AUTO_ACTIVATE=0
  MISE_CACHE_DIR=~/.mise/cache
  MISE_DATA_DIR=~/.mise
  MISE_GITHUB_TOKEN=REDACTED

settings:
  always_keep_download  true  ~/.config/mise/config.toml
  experimental          true  ~/.config/mise/config.toml
  lockfile              true  ~/.config/mise/config.toml
  use_versions_host     false ~/.config/mise/config.toml
  yes                   true  ~/.config/mise/config.toml

3 problems found:

1. plugin mint-lang/asdf-mint is not installed

2. mise is not activated, run mise help activate or
   read documentation at https://mise.jdx.dev for activation instructions.
   Alternatively, add the shims directory ~/.mise/shims to PATH.
   Using the shims directory is preferred for non-interactive setups.

3. unused shims are present, run mise reshim to remove them
   Unused shims: nimble

[jdx]

it's 384e35e:

mise  HEAD (384e35e) (BISECTING) ❯ m tool opentofu
   Compiling mise v2025.4.2 (/Users/jdx/src/mise)
    Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 4.58s
     Running `target/debug/mise tool opentofu`
Backend:            aqua:opentofu/opentofu
Installed Versions: 1.6.2 1.9.0
Active Version:     1.9.0
Requested Version:  latest
Config Source:      ~/.config/mise/config.toml
Tool Options:       exe="tofu"
mise  HEAD (384e35e) (BISECTING) ❯ git co HEAD^
Previous HEAD position was 384e35e98 feat(ubi): add support for self-hosted GitHub/GitLab (#4765)
HEAD is now at c8374c00c docs: correct `mise use` paths
mise  HEAD (c8374c0) (BISECTING) ❯ m tool opentofu
   Compiling mise v2025.4.2 (/Users/jdx/src/mise)
    Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 4.98s
     Running `target/debug/mise tool opentofu`
Backend:            aqua:opentofu/opentofu
Installed Versions: 1.6.2 1.9.0
Active Version:     1.9.0
Requested Version:  latest
Config Source:      ~/.config/mise/config.toml
Tool Options:       [none]

[jdx]

it's very weird this seems to be importing backend options from the non-default and default registry backends. I added "aqua:opentofu/opentofu[foo=bar]", to registry.toml and got this:

mise  main  1 ❯ m tool opentofu
   Compiling mise v2025.4.4 (/Users/jdx/src/mise)
    Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 7.70s
     Running `target/debug/mise tool opentofu`
Backend:            aqua:opentofu/opentofu[foo=bar]
Installed Versions: 1.6.2 1.9.0
Active Version:     1.9.0
Requested Version:  latest
Config Source:      ~/.config/mise/config.toml
Tool Options:       exe="tofu",foo="bar"

So I think this exposed 2 bugs, first that we're using more backends than we should but also that backend options are ending up in mise.toml.

[jdx]

I think fixing this is going to be tricky since it basically means our method of adding the backend tool options on the tool will import things into the file

[roele]

AFAIR backend options from ubi were added to the mise.toml before at least when passed via use in brackets tool[option=value] which makes sense.

[jdx]

I'll think about this one a bit unless you have a good idea. I'm wondering if we should abort this plan to merge and instead find a way to pull in the tool options in the version listing

[jdx]

though... in theory you could have a mise.toml like this:

[tools]
foo = [
  {version = "1", options = "x"},
  {version = "2", options = "y"},
]

so our data model may not support putting the options in version listing at all

[jdx]

update: neither me nor @roele can repro in a container. I'm going to see if I can repro in a container or e2e test.