Why is pnpm trying to download @pnpm/exe while running pnpm install?

[jeremymeng]

We already running with nodejs installed.

is it because the version of running pnpm is different from what is specified in the root package.json?

[zkochan]

Yes

[jeremymeng]

so today we have in package.json

  "packageManager": "pnpm@10.33.0",
  "engines": {
    "node": ">=20",
    "pnpm": ">=10.33.0"
  },

And we do npm i -g pnpm then pnpm install. Today we would have running version 11.0.6 and what version it tries to download? I guess @pnpm/exe@11.0.6? If we change the package.json to have "pnpm": "10.33.0", would the installed version still try to download @pnpm/exe@11.0.6 or @pnpm/exe@10.33.0?

[zkochan]

Today npm i -g pnpm would install latest, which is 10.33.4. Then in the project it would switch to pnpm@10.33.0 (not to @pnpm/exe because you installed pnpm, not @pnpm/exe).

[jeremymeng]

We are seeing a failure when using azure devops feed to cache the upstream npmjs. pnpm install did try to download @pnpm/exe and failed. I hope to resolve this issue by not having any floating versions that may not be in the cache

https://dev.azure.com/azure-sdk/public/_build/results?buildId=6258608&view=logs&j=3dc8fd7e-4368-5a92-293e-d53cefc8c4b3&t=26452410-bb74-52b8-246c-3b6de8b4706f&l=14