Mountebank is not shrinkwrap compatible

[kutzi]

When I add mountebank as dev dependency to my project, I cannot shrinkwrap the dependencies anymore.

i.e.

] npm shrinkwrap --dev
(works fine)
] npm install mountebank --save-dev
] npm shrinkwrap --dev
npm ERR! Error: Problems were encountered
npm ERR! Please correct and try again.
npm ERR! extraneous: abab@1.0.1 /home/ckutz/rwd/cara-boot/node_modules/mountebank/node_modules/abab
npm ERR! extraneous: acorn-globals@1.0.9 /home/ckutz/rwd/cara-boot/node_modules/mountebank/node_modules/acorn-globals
npm ERR! extraneous: browser-request@0.3.3 /home/ckutz/rwd/cara-boot/node_modules/mountebank/node_modules/browser-request
npm ERR! extraneous: coffee-script@1.3.3 /home/ckutz/rwd/cara-boot/node_modules/mountebank/node_modules/coffee-script
...

[bbyars]

Thanks for reporting. Do you have a project I can clone to test? I'm unable to reproduce with grunt-mountebank (https://github.com/bbyars/grunt-mountebank). The shrinkwrap file, including mountebank, is here:
https://github.com/bbyars/grunt-mountebank/blob/master/npm-shrinkwrap.json
-Brandon

[kutzi]

I can reproduce it with this example: https://github.com/kutzi/mountebank-shrinkwrap

[akalman]

This is actually a npm issue, not a bug in mountebank. Mountebank is published using npm v3, which modifies the behavior of where npm dependencies are installed. npm v2 does not expect this, and will throw errors because of it when trying to shrinkwrap. Upgrading to npm v3 solves this issue.

If for some reason you are stuck on npm v2, there is an only moderately inconvenient workaround. Add all of mountebanks top level dependencies to your own package.json. Then, between npm install and npm shrinkwrap, delete the node_modules/mountebank/node_modules folder. This workaround works for grunt-mountebank, if you are using that as well.

For reference, upgrading to npm v3 only solved the issue for me if my version of mountebank is exactly 1.5.1. I still encountered problems for other versions (the problem varied by version) that I did not try to solve.

[bbyars]

Adam - thanks for the explanation. I'll add some docs on the next release
to this effect.
-Brandon

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Adam Kalman notifications@github.com
wrote:

This is actually a npm issue, not a bug in mountebank. Mountebank is
published using npm v3, which modifies the behavior of where npm
dependencies are installed. npm v2 does not expect this, and will throw
errors because of it when trying to shrinkwrap. Upgrading to npm v3 solves
this issue.

If for some reason you are stuck on npm v2, there is an only moderately
inconvenient workaround. Add all of mountebanks top level dependencies
https://github.com/bbyars/mountebank/blob/master/package.json#L60-L76
to your own package.json. Then, between npm install and npm shrinkwrap,
delete the node_modules/mountebank/node_modules folder. This workaround
works for grunt-mountebank, if you are using that as well.

For reference, upgrading to npm v3 only solved the issue for me if my
version of mountebank is exactly 1.5.1. I still encountered problems for
other versions (the problem varied by version) that I did not try to solve.

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[delta62]

I just tried creating an NPM shrinkwrap file using npm 3 and I had this issue as well. Similar errors about extraneous packages.

• npm: 3.10.9
• mountebank: 1.8.0