fix: rebuild should print a better error message

close #5815

.changeset/few-dancers-exist.md

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+"@pnpm/plugin-commands-rebuild": patch
+"pnpm": patch
+---
+
+`pnpm rebuild` should not fail if node_modules was created by pnpm version 7.18 or older [#5815](https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/issues/5815).

.changeset/nervous-avocados-end.md

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+"@pnpm/plugin-commands-rebuild": patch
+"pnpm": patch
+---
+
+`pnpm rebuild` should print a better error message when a hoisted dependency is not found [#5815](https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/issues/5815).

exec/plugin-commands-rebuild/package.json

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
   "homepage": "https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/blob/main/exec/plugin-commands-rebuild#readme",
   "devDependencies": {
     "@pnpm/assert-project": "workspace:*",
+    "@pnpm/error": "workspace:*",
     "@pnpm/filter-workspace-packages": "workspace:*",
     "@pnpm/plugin-commands-rebuild": "workspace:*",
     "@pnpm/prepare": "workspace:*",

exec/plugin-commands-rebuild/src/implementation/index.ts

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import {
   WANTED_LOCKFILE,
 } from '@pnpm/constants'
 import { skippedOptionalDependencyLogger } from '@pnpm/core-loggers'
+import { PnpmError } from '@pnpm/error'
 import { getContext, PnpmContext } from '@pnpm/get-context'
 import {
   runLifecycleHooksConcurrently,
@@ -276,6 +277,11 @@ async function _rebuild (
       const pkgRoots = opts.nodeLinker === 'hoisted'
         ? (ctx.modulesFile?.hoistedLocations?.[depPath] ?? []).map((hoistedLocation) => path.join(opts.lockfileDir, hoistedLocation))
         : [path.join(ctx.virtualStoreDir, dp.depPathToFilename(depPath), 'node_modules', pkgInfo.name)]
+      if (pkgRoots.length === 0) {
+        throw new PnpmError('MISSING_HOISTED_LOCATIONS', `${depPath} is not found in hoistedLocations inside node_modules/.modules.yaml`, {
+          hint: 'If you installed your node_modules with pnpm older than v7.19.0, you may need to remove it and run "pnpm install"',
+        })
+      }
       const pkgRoot = pkgRoots[0]
       try {
         const extraBinPaths = ctx.extraBinPaths

exec/plugin-commands-rebuild/tsconfig.json

@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@
     {
       "path": "../../packages/dependency-path"
     },
+    {
+      "path": "../../packages/error"
+    },
     {
       "path": "../../packages/types"
     },