diff --git a/node_modules/npm-registry-client/index.js b/node_modules/npm-registry-client/index.js
index 4609bcbde83..c7bc21efcb5 100644
--- a/node_modules/npm-registry-client/index.js
+++ b/node_modules/npm-registry-client/index.js
@@ -20,13 +20,19 @@ try {
 function noop () {}
 
 function RegClient (options) {
-  // a registry url must be provided.
-  var registry = url.parse(options.registry)
-  if (!registry.protocol) throw new Error(
-    'Invalid registry: ' + registry.url)
-  this.registry = registry.href
-  if (this.registry.slice(-1) !== '/') {
-    this.registry += '/'
+  // if provided, then the registry needs to be a url.
+  // if it's not provided, then we're just using the cache only.
+  var registry = options.registry
+  if (registry) {
+    registry = url.parse(registry)
+    if (!registry.protocol) throw new Error(
+      'Invalid registry: ' + registry.url)
+    this.registry = registry.href
+    if (this.registry.slice(-1) !== '/') {
+      this.registry += '/'
+    }
+  } else {
+    this.registry = null
   }
 
   this.retries = options.retries || 2
@@ -56,7 +62,7 @@ function RegClient (options) {
     }
   }
 
-  if (this.auth && !this.alwaysAuth) {
+  if (this.auth && !this.alwaysAuth && this.registry) {
     // if we're always authing, then we just send the
     // user/pass on every thing.  otherwise, create a
     // session, and use that.
diff --git a/node_modules/npm-registry-client/lib/get.js b/node_modules/npm-registry-client/lib/get.js
index b56fefcc634..835eb4ce516 100644
--- a/node_modules/npm-registry-client/lib/get.js
+++ b/node_modules/npm-registry-client/lib/get.js
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ function get (uri, timeout, nofollow, staleOk, cb) {
   timeout = Math.min(timeout, this.cacheMax)
   timeout = Math.max(timeout, this.cacheMin)
 
+  if (!this.registry) timeout = Infinity
+
   if ( process.env.COMP_CWORD !== undefined
     && process.env.COMP_LINE !== undefined
     && process.env.COMP_POINT !== undefined
diff --git a/node_modules/npm-registry-client/lib/request.js b/node_modules/npm-registry-client/lib/request.js
index 4e09e277ccf..384b0d89d53 100644
--- a/node_modules/npm-registry-client/lib/request.js
+++ b/node_modules/npm-registry-client/lib/request.js
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ function regRequest (method, where, what, etag, nofollow, cb_) {
   if (typeof cb_ !== "function") cb_ = etag, etag = null
   if (typeof cb_ !== "function") cb_ = what, what = null
 
+  if (!this.registry) return cb(new Error(
+    "No registry url provided: " + method + " " + where))
+
   // Since there are multiple places where an error could occur,
   // don't let the cb be called more than once.
   var errState = null
diff --git a/node_modules/npm-registry-client/package.json b/node_modules/npm-registry-client/package.json
index 94c2c73e8ce..47b6dc4b7f2 100644
--- a/node_modules/npm-registry-client/package.json
+++ b/node_modules/npm-registry-client/package.json
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
   },
   "name": "npm-registry-client",
   "description": "Client for the npm registry",
-  "version": "0.0.9",
+  "version": "0.0.10",
   "repository": {
     "url": "git://github.com/isaacs/npm-registry-client"
   },
@@ -35,6 +35,6 @@
   },
   "license": "BSD",
   "readme": "# npm-registry-client\n\nThe code that npm uses to talk to the registry.\n\nIt handles all the caching and HTTP calls.\n\n## Usage\n\n```javascript\nvar RegClient = require('npm-registry-client')\nvar client = new RegClient(options)\n\nclient.get(\"npm\", \"latest\", 1000, function (er, data, raw, res) {\n  // error is an error if there was a problem.\n  // data is the parsed data object\n  // raw is the json string\n  // res is the response from couch\n})\n```\n\n# Options\n\n* `registry` **Required** {String} URL to the registry\n* `cache` **Required** {String} Path to the cache folder\n* `alwaysAuth` {Boolean} Auth even for GET requests.\n* `auth` {String} A base64-encoded `username:password`\n* `email` {String} User's email address\n* `tag` {String} The default tag to use when publishing new packages.\n  Default = `\"latest\"`\n* `ca` {String} Cerficate signing authority certificates to trust.\n* `strictSSL` {Boolean} Whether or not to be strict with SSL\n  certificates.  Default = `true`\n* `userAgent` {String} User agent header to send.  Default =\n  `\"node/{process.version}\"`\n* `log` {Object} The logger to use.  Defaults to `require(\"npmlog\")` if\n  that works, otherwise logs are disabled.\n* `retries` {Number} Number of times to retry on GET failures.\n  Default=2\n* `retryFactor` {Number} `factor` setting for `node-retry`. Default=10\n* `retryMinTimeout` {Number} `minTimeout` setting for `node-retry`.\n  Default=10000 (10 seconds)\n* `retryMaxTimeout` {Number} `maxTimeout` setting for `node-retry`.\n  Default=60000 (60 seconds)\n\n# client.request(method, where, [what], [etag], [nofollow], cb)\n\n* `method` {String} HTTP method\n* `where` {String} Path to request on the server\n* `what` {Stream | Buffer | String | Object} The request body.  Objects\n  that are not Buffers or Streams are encoded as JSON.\n* `etag` {String} The cached ETag\n* `nofollow` {Boolean} Prevent following 302/301 responses\n* `cb` {Function}\n  * `error` {Error | null}\n  * `data` {Object} the parsed data object\n  * `raw` {String} the json\n  * `res` {Response Object} response from couch\n\nMake a request to the registry.  All the other methods are wrappers\naround this. one.\n\n# client.adduser(username, password, email, cb)\n\n* `username` {String}\n* `password` {String}\n* `email` {String}\n* `cb` {Function}\n\nAdd a user account to the registry, or verify the credentials.\n\n# client.get(url, [timeout], [nofollow], [staleOk], cb)\n\n* `url` {String} The url path to fetch\n* `timeout` {Number} Number of seconds old that a cached copy must be\n  before a new request will be made.\n* `nofollow` {Boolean} Do not follow 301/302 responses\n* `staleOk` {Boolean} If there's cached data available, then return that\n  to the callback quickly, and update the cache the background.\n\nFetches data from the registry via a GET request, saving it in\nthe cache folder with the ETag.\n\n# client.publish(data, tarball, [readme], cb)\n\n* `data` {Object} Package data\n* `tarball` {String | Stream} Filename or stream of the package tarball\n* `readme` {String} Contents of the README markdown file\n* `cb` {Function}\n\nPublish a package to the registry.\n\nNote that this does not create the tarball from a folder.  However, it\ncan accept a gzipped tar stream or a filename to a tarball.\n\n# client.star(package, starred, cb)\n\n* `package` {String} Name of the package to star\n* `starred` {Boolean} True to star the package, false to unstar it.\n* `cb` {Function}\n\nStar or unstar a package.\n\nNote that the user does not have to be the package owner to star or\nunstar a package, though other writes do require that the user be the\npackage owner.\n\n# client.tag(project, version, tag, cb)\n\n* `project` {String} Project name\n* `version` {String} Version to tag\n* `tag` {String} Tag name to apply\n* `cb` {Function}\n\nMark a version in the `dist-tags` hash, so that `pkg@tag`\nwill fetch the specified version.\n\n# client.unpublish(name, [ver], cb)\n\n* `name` {String} package name\n* `ver` {String} version to unpublish. Leave blank to unpublish all\n  versions.\n* `cb` {Function}\n\nRemove a version of a package (or all versions) from the registry.  When\nthe last version us unpublished, the entire document is removed from the\ndatabase.\n\n# client.upload(where, file, [etag], [nofollow], cb)\n\n* `where` {String} URL path to upload to\n* `file` {String | Stream} Either the filename or a readable stream\n* `etag` {String} Cache ETag\n* `nofollow` {Boolean} Do not follow 301/302 responses\n* `cb` {Function}\n\nUpload an attachment.  Mostly used by `client.publish()`.\n",
-  "_id": "npm-registry-client@0.0.9",
+  "_id": "npm-registry-client@0.0.10",
   "_from": "npm-registry-client@0"
 }