Backport Corepack 0.17.0 to Node.js 18 LTS

[denexapp]

What is the problem this feature will solve?

The latest LTS version of Node.js uses Corepack v0.15.3 (link). This version of corepack has an issue that prevents corepack to use custom registries to download package managers.

I hit this issue. I can not access default npm registry because it's blocked by corporate firewall, and I can not use custom registry because of the bug of corepack

What is the feature you are proposing to solve the problem?

This issue was fixed in the latest versions of Corepack in this PR.

Merge requests were created to use the latest 0.17.0 version of Corepack for Node.js v19, v16 and v14.

But there's no merge request for Node.js v18.

I think Corepack v0.17.0 should be backported to Node.js v18 as well.

Tagging @aduh95 as the author of these PR's, what do you think? I can make a similar PR if it's needed.

What alternatives have you considered?

The alternative is to update Corepack to the latest version after the installation of Node.js v18 manually using npm install -g corepack.

While this workaround solves the problem, I think it's better to address this problem at the level of Node.js itself, so users won't face the problem at all.

[aduh95]

Node.js 18.x is an Active LTS release line, meaning every¹ commit that lands on a Current release line would get backported "automatically"² after a maturation period (which is typically not less than 2 weeks, but is at the discretion of the releaser). I've opened backport PR for v16.x and v14.x because those Maintenance LTS, not Active LTS. There's no PR for v18.x because it's not necessary, and would give more work to the release team.

Footnotes

1. unless the PR it's from has been tagged as unsuited for LTS ↩

2. "automatically" here actually means "manually by the releaser", but that doesn't generate any visible activity on GitHub unless the commit doesn't land cleanly on the staging branch, in which case the releaser would add a comment to the PR the commit is from. ↩

[denexapp]

Thank you for the clarification.