Preinstall not called before try to install and collect packages information

[alexander-schranz]

What version of Bun is running?

1.0.0+822a00c4d508b54f650933a73ca5f4a3af9a79

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 21.6.0 arm64 arm

What steps can reproduce the bug?

If you are using local dependencies which are only available after calling preinstall bun will fail.

e.g.:

    "scripts": {
        "preinstall": "node ./preinstall.js",
        "postinstall": "node ./postinstall.js"
    },
    "dependencies": {
        "local-package-available-after-preinstall": "file:../some/local/path"
    }

What is the expected behavior?

First call the preinstall script before try todo the install.

What do you see instead?

bun install v1.0.0 (822a00c4)


error: MissingPackageJSON


note: error occured while resolving local-package-...

error: FileNotFound installing local-package-...

Additional information

Following works:

bun run preinstall
bun install

[mryraghi]

Same here.

I use preinstall to populate a $VAR, which is then used in 'bunfig.toml', and it seems it is also currently not working (#4901).

[mryraghi]

It still doesn't work in 1.1.7.

# bunfig.toml
[install]
registry = "https://registry.npmjs.org"

[install.scopes]
"@company" = { url = "https://etc.amazonaws.com/npm/packages/", token = "$CODEARTIFACT_AUTH_TOKEN" }

preinstall: export CODEARTIFACT_AUTH_TOKEN=$(aws codeartifact get-authorization-token --domain receiptor-ai --region eu-west-3 --query authorizationToken --output text)

[dylan-conway]

@mryraghi preinstall does not run before package installation. Instead it runs before the install script, which runs after installation. See npm/cli#2660 (comment). It looks like npm plans on addressing this in the future, most likely with more lifecycle hooks (maybe npm/rfcs#403)

[mryraghi]

Gotcha—thanks for clarifying.

However, I get into this issue even when installing. Sometime it works, sometime it doesn't. It's a nightmare...