pkg_tar rule does not work.

[jtillwickEA]

My WORKSPACE file has this:

http_archive(
    name = "rules_pkg",
    urls = [
        "https://mirror.bazel.build/github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/releases/download/1.0.1/rules_pkg-1.0.1.tar.gz",
        "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/releases/download/1.0.1/rules_pkg-1.0.1.tar.gz",
    ],
    sha256 = "d20c951960ed77cb7b341c2a59488534e494d5ad1d30c4818c736d57772a9fef",
)
load("@rules_pkg//:deps.bzl", "rules_pkg_dependencies")

rules_pkg_dependencies()

My BUILD.bazel file has this:

load("@rules_pkg//pkg:tar.bzl", "pkg_tar")

pkg_tar(
    name = "assets",
    srcs = ["//assets:files"],
    strip_prefix = "."
)

I get the following error:

Label '@rules_pkg//pkg:tar.bzl' is invalid because 'pkg' is not a package; perhaps you meant to put the colon here: '@rules_pkg//:pkg/tar.bzl'?

I am using bazel 5.2.0.

How do I get this to work? There is ZERO documentation on this.

[tonyaiuto]

That should work. My only hunch is that your WORKSPACE ordering brings in an older version of rules_pkg later on.
There is no way to tell without examining your WORKSPACE file to see.