Zoltan Kochan f8e5a0de8c feat(pacquet-cli): port the self-update command (#12693)
Ports pnpm's self-update command to the Rust pacquet CLI. Resolves the
target version from the trusted package-manager bootstrap registry
(honoring minimumReleaseAge / trustPolicy, strict resolution failing
closed), guards against corepack, refuses to downgrade on an implicit
`latest`, and emits the major-upgrade migration hint.

When the project pins pnpm via packageManager / devEngines.packageManager,
the pin is updated in place (range-style preserved, integrities persisted).
Otherwise the engine is installed into the global packages directory:
integrities are resolved into the env lockfile, the engine's npm registry
signature is verified against npm's embedded public keys, the host's native
platform binary is hard-linked into the wrapper (the preinstall is skipped
because the engine installs with scripts disabled), and the bins are linked
into the global bin directory with a cache-keyed hash symlink.

New modules: self_update/install_pnpm (installPnpm + linkExePlatformBinary)
and self_update/verify_engine (verifyPnpmEngineIdentity). config_deps gains
resolve_pnpm_version, the policy-aware version probe.
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pnpm

Fast, disk space efficient package manager:

  • Fast. Up to 2x faster than the alternatives (see benchmark).
  • Efficient. Files inside node_modules are linked from a single content-addressable storage.
  • Great for monorepos.
  • Strict. A package can access only dependencies that are specified in its package.json.
  • Deterministic. Has a lockfile called pnpm-lock.yaml.
  • Works as a Node.js version manager. See pnpm runtime.
  • Works everywhere. Supports Windows, Linux, and macOS.
  • Battle-tested. Used in production by teams of all sizes since 2016.
  • Experimental Rust port. Includes pacquet, an experimental port of the CLI written in Rust.
  • See the full feature comparison with npm and Yarn.

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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:

  1. 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 update will only add 1 new file to the storage.
  2. 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).

As a result, you save gigabytes of space on your disk and you have a lot faster installations! If you'd like more details about the unique node_modules structure that pnpm creates and why it works fine with the Node.js ecosystem, read this small article: Flat node_modules is not the only way.

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Benchmark

pnpm is up to 2x faster than npm and Yarn classic. See all benchmarks here.

Benchmarks on an app with lots of dependencies:

License

MIT, except the pnpr/ directory, which is source-available under the PolyForm Shield License 1.0.0.

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