pnpm licenses list fails on pnpm itself

[JaninaWibker]

pnpm version: 8.5.1

Code to reproduce the issue:

git clone https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm
cd pnpm
pnpm install
pnpm licenses list

Expected behaviour:

The third party licenses for pnpm itself get listed

Actual behavior:

ERR_PNPM_MISSING_PACKAGE_INDEX_FILE  Failed to find package index file for github.com/vercel/pkg/7e4fef9f0828b11c7a9655b95425f32094f2daa2(patch_hash=pp6fkuhwkrqq7cjcj7uqpf37e4), please consider running 'pnpm install'

(running pnpm install again and re-trying doesn't change anything about the error)

Additional information:

This can be resolved by doing pnpm patch-remove pkg@5.7.0, thus the github:... dependency doesn't seem to be the problem but rather having to apply a patch is.

Is there any reason there is a patch for vercel/pkg in the first place?

• node -v prints: v20.0.0
• Windows, macOS, or Linux?: macOS