Can't fetch private dependency from github registry

[alex-trofimov]

Hi!
I have a dependency in my project that looks like this:
"react-native-background-geolocation-android": "git+https://github.com/transistorsoft/react-native-background-geolocation-android.git#3.8.0",

And this basic workflow:

name: Test

on:
  release:
    types:
      - created

jobs:
  release_codepush_update:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: Use Node.js
      uses: actions/setup-node@v1
      with:
        node-version: '12.x'
        always-auth: true
        registry-url: https://npm.pkg.github.com
        scope: '@transistorsoft'

    - name: Install dependencies
      run: npm install
      env:
        NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GH_ACCESS_TOKEN}}

Which throws this error on npm install step:

npm ERR! Error while executing:
npm ERR! /usr/bin/git ls-remote -h -t https://github.com/transistorsoft/react-native-background-geolocation-android.git
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! remote: Repository not found.
npm ERR! fatal: repository 'https://github.com/transistorsoft/react-native-background-geolocation-android.git/' not found
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! exited with error code: 128

(My project isn't a part of the transistorsoft scope if that matters)

The access token is correct, I can fetch the dependency repo in the same workflow using curl.

Another part of the project's workflow is run on Appcenter and the same task of authentication is resolved by this bash script:

echo "always-auth=true
//npm.pkg.github.com/:_authToken=${GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN}" >> .npmrc

I tried replacing the content of .npmrc generated by this action with content generated by the said script but for some reason, I can't make it to work.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

[alex-trofimov]

Switched to ssh as a workaround. Still would be nicer to use the token auth.

[Nestoro]

i am experiencing a the same problematic using:

"mypackage": "https://[username]:[token]@github.com/[organization]/[package].git#[tag]",

npm ERR! fatal: repository 'https://github.com/[organization]/[package].git/' not found

locally everything works fine.

[dmitry-shibanov]

Hello everyone. Thank you for your report. As I know you can not configure the .npmrc file to install private/public repository as dependency. It's made from the package.json file.
For now I'm closing the issue, because it's not related to the setup-node action. If I'm wrong about configuring the .npmrc file could you please ping us and attach link to the documentation.

[Nestoro]

regardless of the lack of configuration options in .npmrc regarding auth; the example i added is using a source url which is including all credentials in itself inside the package.json file.
the error is not that the auth is insufficient. rather that the repo is not found. and my example works everywhere except the setup-node environment.