bug: Cordova plugin's podspec entries not added to iOS project's Podfile

[jake-moritz-trifecta]

Bug Report

Capacitor Version

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Latest Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: 3.1.2
  @capacitor/core: 3.1.2
  @capacitor/android: 3.1.2
  @capacitor/ios: 3.1.2

Installed Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: 3.0.2
  @capacitor/core: 3.1.2
  @capacitor/android: 3.1.2
  @capacitor/ios: 3.1.2

[success] iOS looking great! 👌
[success] Android looking great! 👌

Platform(s)

ios

Current Behavior

Trying to run ionic capacitor update and all other commands that use update fail with the following error:

[capacitor] ✖ Updating iOS native dependencies with pod install - failed!
[capacitor] ✖ update ios - failed!
[capacitor] [error] Analyzing dependencies
[capacitor]         [!] Unable to find a specification for `SalesforceHybridSDK` depended upon by `CordovaPluginsStatic`
[capacitor]         
[capacitor]         You have either:
[capacitor]         * out-of-date source repos which you can update with `pod repo update` or with `pod install --repo-update`.
[capacitor]         * mistyped the name or version.
[capacitor]         * not added the source repo that hosts the Podspec to your Podfile.

This SalesforceMobileSDK Cordova plugin defines its podspec in plugin.xml like so:

   <podspec>
         <config>
             <source url="https://cdn.cocoapods.org"/>
         </config>
         <pods use-frameworks="true">
           <pod name="SalesforceHybridSDK" git="https://github.com/forcedotcom/SalesforceMobileSDK-iOS-Hybrid" tag="v9.1.1" />
           <pod name="MobileSync" git="https://github.com/forcedotcom/SalesforceMobileSDK-iOS" tag="v9.1.1" />
           <pod name="SmartStore" git="https://github.com/forcedotcom/SalesforceMobileSDK-iOS" tag="v9.1.1" />
           <pod name="FMDB/SQLCipher" git="https://github.com/ccgus/fmdb" tag="2.7.5" />
           <pod name="SQLCipher/fts" git="https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher" tag="v4.4.2" />
           <pod name="SalesforceSDKCore" git="https://github.com/forcedotcom/SalesforceMobileSDK-iOS" tag="v9.1.1" />
           <pod name="SalesforceAnalytics" git="https://github.com/forcedotcom/SalesforceMobileSDK-iOS" tag="v9.1.1" />
           <pod name="SalesforceSDKCommon" git="https://github.com/forcedotcom/SalesforceMobileSDK-iOS" tag="v9.1.1" />
         </pods>
    </podspec>

I can manually add these specs to the Podfile located at /ios/App/ like so:

  pod 'SalesforceHybridSDK', :git => 'https://github.com/forcedotcom/SalesforceMobileSDK-iOS-Hybrid', :tag => 'v9.1.1'
  pod 'MobileSync', :git => 'https://github.com/forcedotcom/SalesforceMobileSDK-iOS', :tag => 'v9.1.1'
  pod 'SmartStore', :git => 'https://github.com/forcedotcom/SalesforceMobileSDK-iOS', :tag => 'v9.1.1'
  pod 'FMDB/SQLCipher', :git => 'https://github.com/ccgus/fmdb', :tag => '2.7.5'
  pod 'SQLCipher/fts', :git => 'https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher', :tag => 'v4.4.2'. 
  pod 'SalesforceSDKCore', :git => 'https://github.com/forcedotcom/SalesforceMobileSDK-iOS', :tag => 'v9.1.1'
  pod 'SalesforceAnalytics', :git => 'https://github.com/forcedotcom/SalesforceMobileSDK-iOS', :tag => 'v9.1.1'
  pod 'SalesforceSDKCommon', :git => 'https://github.com/forcedotcom/SalesforceMobileSDK-iOS', :tag => 'v9.1.1'

And if I run pod install from within the /ios/App/ after making those changes,
it completes succesfully.

Expected Behavior

I expect that the source repos defined by this plugins plugin.xml file would be added where needed so that the dependency can be resolved.

Other Technical Details

npm --version output: 6.14.13

node --version output: v14.17.1

pod --version output (iOS issues only): 1.10.1

Additional Context

I have run pod repo update and that doesn't seen to help. Is this a limitation of the Cordova plugin support with Capacitor? If so, is there a workaround? If I need to manually add to the Podfile that's fine, but the Podfile is always overwritten with the update command.

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