"npm update" fails when a binary in the package has been (re)moved

[papandreou]

I published two versions of a package named brokenbin in order to demonstrate the issue. Its package.json specifies a "bin" directory. In version 0.0.1 it only contains bin/binary1.js, and in version 0.0.2 it only contains bin/binary2.js.

Here's what happens when I install version 0.0.1, then upgrade to 0.0.2:

andreas@papandreou:~/work/foo$ npm install brokenbin@0.0.1
brokenbin@0.0.1 ./node_modules/brokenbin 
andreas@papandreou:~/work/foo$ npm install brokenbin@0.0.2
npm ERR! error installing brokenbin@0.0.2 Error: ENOENT, No such file or directory '/home/andreas/work/foo/node_modules/brokenbin/bin/binary1.js'
npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, No such file or directory '/home/andreas/work/foo/node_modules/brokenbin/bin/binary1.js'
npm ERR! Report this *entire* log at:
npm ERR!     <http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues>
npm ERR! or email it to:
npm ERR!     <npm-@googlegroups.com>
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! System Linux 2.6.35-30-generic
npm ERR! command "node" "/home/andreas/.local/bin/npm" "install" "brokenbin@0.0.2"
npm ERR! cwd /home/andreas/work/foo
npm ERR! node -v v0.4.11-pre
npm ERR! npm -v 1.0.26
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/andreas/work/foo/npm-debug.log
npm not ok

You're very welcome to remove the brokenbin package from the repo :)

Best regards,
Papandreou

[isaacs]

Ooh, nice one! Here's the problem:

npm verb from cache /Users/isaacs/dev-src/js/npm/node_modules/brokenbin/package.json

Need to clear out hte package.json cache in the unbuild step.