Auth tokens configured by pnpm config set are not found by npm

[zkochan]

The version 7.28.0 doesn't work, but the 7.27.1 works. Here's the relevant part of the config to make it work:

publish:
  stage: publish
  before_script:
    - corepack enable
    - corepack prepare pnpm@7.27.1 --activate
    - pnpm config set "//${GITLAB_REGISTRY}:_authToken=${CI_JOB_TOKEN}"

Originally posted by @navaru in #4937 (comment)

This happens because pnpm config set writes to its own rc file at ~/.config/pnpm/rc, which is not read by npm CLI (and pnpm publish run npm publish under the hood).

I think the solution should be to make pnpm run npm config set when auth tokens are configured.

[semiautomatix]

gitlab-ci.yml

image: node:latest

stages:
  - deploy

deploy:
  stage: deploy
  before_script:
    - corepack enable
    - corepack prepare pnpm@latest --activate
    - npm config set "//${CI_SERVER_HOST}/api/v4/projects/${CI_PROJECT_ID}/packages/npm/:_authToken=${CI_JOB_TOKEN}"
  script:
    - pnpm install --frozen-lockfile --strict-peer-dependencies
    - pnpm publish --publish-branch main --no-git-checks

I thought I'd double-check this doesn't work. No luck, I'm afraid.

npm ERR! code ENEEDAUTH
npm ERR! need auth This command requires you to be logged in to https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/43729055/packages/npm/
npm ERR! need auth You need to authorize this machine using `npm adduser`
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2023-03-08T00_50_37_922Z-debug-0.log

[zkochan]

@semiautomatix you issue is probably the same as this: #5616

[semiautomatix]

@semiautomatix you issue is probably the same as this: #5616

Appreciate the link. Seems npm config set isn't appending to the .npmrc file. I've had to echo >>.pnprc for a result.