FLflawn·Feb 3, 2025Submission
Corepack PNPM CI builds fail currently due to Signature Mismatch
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corepack
Package manager version manager for Node.js projects
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What it is
Package manager version manager for Node.js projects
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Observed mentions: 2021-11-17 01:58:20 UTC to 2025-02-03 11:40:45 UTC.
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesI'd love to use Bun for my projects, but it's not integrated into Corepack yet (and therefore you cannot pin the bun version w/ checksum in package.json)
https://github.com/nodejs/corepack/issues/295
In Yarn 4.0Recently Node 16 LTS cycle started. One month and a few days before the carry-over, a super controversial package titled `coredeps` [0] was officially declared a core module and has been bundled with all official distributions since.
The NodeJS team refuses to discuss NPM because it's a separate 3rd party. And yet.... this NodeJS Core module comes pre-installed as a global NPM package.
We're just getting started.
This module installs or even reinstalls any supported package manager when you execute a script with a name that would match any that they'd recognise. Opt-in for only a short period, and intending to expand beyond package manager installations.
Amidst all that's been going on, NPM (Nonstop Published Moments) is working on a feature that silently hijacks user commands and installs foreign software. The code found in those comprom
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ised packages operated in a similar manner and was labeled a critical severity vulnerability.
The following might actually make you cry.
Of these third party remote distributions it's downloading, the number of checksum, keys, or even build configurations that are being verified is 0.
The game that Microsoft is playing with their recent acquisitions here is quite clear, but there's too much collateral damage.
[0] https://github.com/nodejs/corepack#readme