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FS#69915 - [npm-check-updates] Errornous install of npm package "root"

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Messju Mohr (messju) - Monday, 08 March 2021, 15:26 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Monday, 08 March 2021, 16:06 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

In PKGBUILD there is "npm install -g --user root ...". This does not what is intended (at least not with recent versions of npm).
The "--user" is ignored and npm installs an unnecessary package named "root" (resolving to https://github.com/mafintosh/root) in /usr/lib/node_modules.

I found this, because the package "typescript" has the same bug and so I got a conflict when both packages want to own (npm-check-updates and typescript) /usr/lib/node_modules/root.
I don't know it there are more packages that (falsely) want to install to /usr/lib/node_modules/root.
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Monday, 08 March 2021, 16:06 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#69912 
Comment by Messju Mohr (messju) - Monday, 08 March 2021, 15:29 GMT
Sorry, that line should read "I found this, because the package "typescript" has the same bug and so I got a conflict when both packages (npm-check-updates and typescript) want to own /usr/lib/node_modules/root."
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Monday, 08 March 2021, 16:03 GMT
As you say, this seems to be a problem with the tooling, so I'm going to combine this with the typescript ticket. These are the only 2 packages in the repos currently affected.

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