npmjs.org tells me that left-pad is not available (404 page)

[silkentrance]

When building projects on travis, or when searching for left-pad on npmjs.com, both will report that the package cannot be found.

Here is an excerpt from the travis build log

npm ERR! Linux 3.13.0-40-generic
npm ERR! argv "/home/travis/.nvm/versions/node/v4.2.2/bin/node" "/home/travis/.nvm/versions/node/v4.2.2/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! node v4.2.2
npm ERR! npm  v2.14.7
npm ERR! code E404
npm ERR! 404 Registry returned 404 for GET on https://registry.npmjs.org/left-pad
npm ERR! 404 
npm ERR! 404 'left-pad' is not in the npm registry.
npm ERR! 404 You should bug the author to publish it (or use the name yourself!)
npm ERR! 404 It was specified as a dependency of 'line-numbers'
npm ERR! 404 
npm ERR! 404 Note that you can also install from a
npm ERR! 404 tarball, folder, http url, or git url.
npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /home/travis/build/coldrye-es/pingo/npm-debug.log
make: *** [deps] Error 1

And here is the standard npmjs.com error page https://www.npmjs.com/package/left-pad

However, if I remove left-pad from my local npm cache and then reinstall it using npm it will happily install left-pad@0.0.4.

[tonytamps]

according to https://registry.npmjs.org/left-pad

unpublished: {
  name: "azer",
  time: "2016-03-22T21:27:15.696Z",
  ...
}

It's causing Babel to fail installation

[silkentrance]

@tonytamps thanks for pointing this out

@azer why? this will break babel based builds on travis...

[Baggz]

I'm having the same issue.

[jagthedrummer]

Yep, I'm having the same problem.

[Baggz]

Seems like https://www.npmjs.com/package/left-pad is up again, but no versions published.

[OllieJennings]

@tonytamps it seems like the registry has updated weirdly

{
  "_id": "left-pad",
  "_rev": "12-29db2b53680e1c66ee1acc89502fe1b0",
  "name": "left-pad",
  "time": {
    "modified": "2016-03-22T21:42:18.002Z",
    "created": "2014-03-14T09:09:20.762Z",
    "0.0.0": "2014-03-14T09:09:20.762Z",
    "0.0.1": "2014-08-14T03:31:03.146Z",
    "0.0.2": "2014-08-15T07:13:09.056Z",
    "0.0.3": "2014-08-15T07:14:44.360Z",
    "0.0.4": "2015-05-20T04:04:04.473Z",
    "1.0.0": "2016-03-22T21:42:18.002Z",
    "unpublished": {
      "name": "westlac",
      "time": "2016-03-22T21:47:25.250Z",
      "tags": {
        "latest": "1.0.0"
     },

[camwest]

Yeah I published a 1.0.0 to try to resolve the dependency. It looks like someone (not me) completely removed left-pad from the npm registry

[jagthedrummer]

Is there a way to get all the old versions back again? In my project it's at the end of a fairly long dependency chain...

[camwest]

@azer would know better why it was unpublished (assuming he was the one to unpublish it)

[jeffrifwald]

@camwest The package line-numbers is pinned to 0.0.3 specifically, so you'll need to publish that version or someone will have to summon the creator of line-numbers.

[silkentrance]

Just tried replacing the travis version of npm which is fairly old by a the latest and see what it will do

npm ERR! Linux 3.13.0-40-generic
npm ERR! argv "/home/travis/.nvm/versions/node/v4.2.2/bin/node" "/home/travis/.nvm/versions/node/v4.2.2/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! node v4.2.2
npm ERR! npm  v3.8.2
npm ERR! No compatible version found: left-pad@0.0.3
npm ERR! Valid install targets:
npm ERR! 0.0.9
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:
npm ERR!     <https://github.com/npm/npm/issues>
npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /home/travis/build/coldrye-es/pingo/npm-debug.log
make: *** [deps] Error 1

It will now tell me that there is a version 0.0.9... weird.

Will not try to install that one, though, with all the malware going around...

[roughpandaz]

+1 same issue here.

[OllieJennings]

@RongxinZhang try and use the new GitHub reactions instead of the old +1 :)

[olih]

+1 same issue