[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#977781: yarnpkg: fails to download modules

[Pirate Praveen]

On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 00:39:35 +0530 Pirate Praveen 
<praveen at onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
 > Since yarnpkg add command did not return an error, the autpkgtest was
 > succeeding even though it did not add any modules to node_modules
 > directory.

Though this is sufficient to install yarn 2 (berry).

$ yarnpkg set version berry
Resolving berry to a url...
Downloading 
https://github.com/yarnpkg/berry/raw/master/packages/berry-cli/bin/berry.js..
Saving it into /tmp/project1/.yarn/releases/yarn-berry.cjs...
Updating /tmp/project1/.yarnrc.yml...
Done!

$ yarnpkg init
{
  name: 'project1'
}
pravi at mahishi:/tmp/project1$ ls
package.json README.md yarn.lock
pravi at mahishi:/tmp/project1$ yarnpkg add d3-color
➤ YN0000: ┌ Resolution step
➤ YN0000: └ Completed
➤ YN0000: ┌ Fetch step
➤ YN0013: │ d3-color at npm:2.0.0 can't be found in the cache and will 
be fetched from
➤ YN0000: └ Completed in 0s 735ms
➤ YN0000: ┌ Link step
➤ YN0000: └ Completed
➤ YN0000: Done in 0s 797ms
$ ls .yarn/cache/
d3-color-npm-2.0.0-e7f04a5d87-637e111598.zip
gitignore