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Zoltan Kochan 52be454d57 fix: infer missing platform fields of optional dependencies from the package name (#12312)
* fix: infer missing platform fields of optional deps from the package name

Some registries strip the os/cpu/libc fields (or just libc) from the
version objects of the packuments they serve. Resolution then saw every
platform-specific optional dependency as platform-unrestricted, so pnpm
downloaded and installed the binaries of every platform regardless of
supportedArchitectures, and wrote lockfile entries without the platform
fields, which broke installs from that lockfile on every machine.

Platform-specific binary packages encode their platform in the package
name (e.g. @nx/nx-win32-arm64-msvc), so packageIsInstallable now fills
the missing platform fields of an optional dependency from the name's
tokens. Since every install path decides installability through that
check before fetching, foreign-platform binaries are skipped without
even downloading them, in fresh resolution and in headless installs
with both node linkers alike. A package that declares no platform
fields at all is treated as platform-specific only when an operating
system is recognized in its name, so a generic name segment (such as
'arm' on its own) never gets a package skipped.

Fixes https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/issues/11702
Fixes https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/issues/9940

* chore: add platform name tokens to the cspell dictionary

* fix(package-is-installable): infer missing platform fields of optional deps from the package name

Port of pnpm commit https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/commit/34875b2d7c
(PR https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/pull/12312). Some registries strip
the os/cpu/libc fields (or just libc) from the version objects of the
packuments they serve, and lockfile entries written from such
metadata lack the fields too, so every platform's binaries were
installed regardless of supportedArchitectures.

Platform-specific binary packages encode their platform in the
package name (e.g. @nx/nx-win32-arm64-msvc), so the installability
check now fills the missing platform fields of an optional dependency
from the name's tokens: infer_platform_from_package_name +
inferred_platform in pacquet-package-is-installable, applied inside
package_is_installable (hoisted linker) and in
compute_skipped_snapshots (isolated linker, with the check cache
keyed by the snapshot's optional flag since the verdicts can differ).
The any_installability_constraint fast path now also considers
optional snapshots whose names infer a platform their metadata row
does not declare, so the inference is reachable on lockfiles without
any declared constraint.

Same guard rails as upstream: declared fields always win (each field
is filled only when missing — a missing libc alone is inferred,
disambiguating -gnu vs -musl), and a package declaring no platform
fields at all engages the inference only when an operating-system
token is recognized in its name, so a generic name segment such as
'arm' on its own never gets a package skipped.

Fixes https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/issues/11702
Fixes https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/issues/9940

* test: shut the metadata-stripping proxy down cleanly and forward the request method
2026-06-10 21:51:40 +02:00
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