Generated .npmrc isn't valid for npm 9 (with node 18)

[sjd78]

The .npmrc that comes along in configuration-files.json uses an unscoped _auth config item. Unscoped _auth is not allowed by npm 9 and will cause an npm install or npm clean-install to fail.

There is a workaround. Adding npm config fix will scope the _auth tag to a single repository listed in the .npmrc.

But without the npm config fix, anyone using node 18 / npm 9 will fail on install. It can be quite confusing when running the build in a container sourced from cachito request to see the build fail that way.

References:

• https://github.blog/changelog/2022-10-24-npm-v9-0-0-released/#%E2%9A%A0%EF%B8%8F-notable-breaking-changes
• feat: auth breaking changes npm/cli#5696
• feat: auth breaking changes npm/cli#5653

[chmeliik]

Will be fixed in the next release (by #857)