Ports pnpm's lockfile-verification gate to pacquet, tracking #11722. The gate re-applies the resolver's policy checks (`minimumReleaseAge`, `trustPolicy='no-downgrade'`) to every entry in `pnpm-lock.yaml` immediately after the lockfile is loaded, before any resolution or fetch happens — so a lockfile resolved elsewhere (committed to the repo, restored from CI cache, or generated by a tool that bypassed local policy) can't reach the filesystem under a weaker policy. Three new crates and four extended ones: - **`pacquet-resolving-resolver-base`** — `ResolutionVerifier` trait + types. - **`pacquet-resolving-npm-resolver`** — `NpmResolutionVerifier`, trust-rank logic, attestation fetcher, cached full-metadata fetcher, mirror helpers (path / IO). - **`pacquet-lockfile-verification`** — fan-out runner, in-memory lockfile hasher, JSONL stat-and-skip cache + `recordLockfileVerified` wrapper. - `pacquet-config` — new `cacheDir`, `minimumReleaseAge*`, `trustPolicy*` fields + `TrustPolicy` enum + `createPackageVersionPolicy`. Defaults match upstream byte-for-byte: `minimumReleaseAge` defaults to `1440` minutes (24 h) and `minimumReleaseAgeIgnoreMissingTime` defaults to `true`. - `pacquet-reporter` — `pnpm:lockfile-verification` channel. - `pacquet-registry` — enriches `Package` / `PackageVersion` with `time`, `_npmUser.trustedPublisher`, `dist.attestations`, `modified`. - `pacquet-package-manager::install` — wires the gate between lockfile load and the frozen-lockfile dispatch. Phase-by-phase landing order matches the plan in #11722. Ports against upstream pnpm at commit `2a9bd897bf`.
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Background
pnpm uses a content-addressable filesystem to store all files from all module directories on a disk. When using npm, if you have 100 projects using lodash, you will have 100 copies of lodash on disk. With pnpm, lodash will be stored in a content-addressable storage, so:
- If you depend on different versions of lodash, only the files that differ are added to the store.
If lodash has 100 files, and a new version has a change only in one of those files,
pnpm updatewill only add 1 new file to the storage. - All the files are saved in a single place on the disk. When packages are installed, their files are linked from that single place consuming no additional disk space. Linking is performed using either hard-links or reflinks (copy-on-write).
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