Adding a package not containing package.json from Github repo breaks subsequent installation of packages.

[varmiral]

pnpm version:

7.2.1

Actual behavior:

After adding a package without package.json from Github, its re-installation, as well as the installation of any other packages, does not occur, i.e. the console writes that there is a reuse from the cache, but nothing changes in node_modules and package.json (writes added 0). A clean install does not help, but only deleting the tmp folders from the store solves the problem.

Related issue: #4822

Additional information:

• node -v prints: 16.15.0
• Windows, macOS, or Linux?: Windows 10

[jramstedt]

Still an issue with pnpm version 7.9.0

[jramstedt]

I'm using https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js if that helps to fix this.

[PaulRBerg]

Still an issue with pnpm v8.6.5.

[adolfogc]

Hi, here's another package which currently fails to install properly from Github with PNPM: https://github.com/mrousavy/react-native-vision-camera