diff --git a/packages/cafs/src/addFilesFromTarball.ts b/packages/cafs/src/addFilesFromTarball.ts
index d6f557e2ff0..b85e97e284b 100644
--- a/packages/cafs/src/addFilesFromTarball.ts
+++ b/packages/cafs/src/addFilesFromTarball.ts
@@ -47,5 +47,8 @@ export default async function (
       .pipe(decompress() as Duplex)
       .on('error', reject).pipe(extract)
   })
+  if (!filesIndex['package.json'] && manifest != null) {
+    manifest.resolve(undefined)
+  }
   return filesIndex
 }
diff --git a/packages/fetcher-base/src/index.ts b/packages/fetcher-base/src/index.ts
index 131f48b6ab9..c800ffaef4a 100644
--- a/packages/fetcher-base/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/fetcher-base/src/index.ts
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ export interface FetchOptions {
 }
 
 export interface DeferredManifestPromise {
-  resolve: (manifest: DependencyManifest) => void
+  resolve: (manifest: DependencyManifest | undefined) => void
   reject: (err: Error) => void
 }