The version of pnpm is not being retrieved from the packageManager field in the package.json.

[CinArb2]

I see the version can be omitted when we have the packageManager field defined in our package.json.

This is my package.json see pkg.json

This is the error I get: see error

Error: Error: Invalid packageManager field in package.json

It seems that retrieving range versions from the 'packageManager' field is not possible; only exact versions can be retrieved.

[KSXGitHub]

^pnpm is an invalid prefix.

[CinArb2]

yes, using "packageManager": "pnpm@^8.6.1", works, but there is an issue with a pattern matching error in VSC "String does not match the pattern of "(npm|pnpm|yarn)@\d+.\d+.\d+(-.+)?"", I'll look into it. Thanks for your reply

[KSXGitHub]

but there is an issue with a pattern matching error in VSC "String does not match the pattern of "(npm|pnpm|yarn)@\d+.\d+.\d+(-.+)?"", I'll look into it.

It seems that our action supporting version range is a non-standard extension. The spec seems the require the exact version (packageManager itself is still experimental after all). And the regex in VS Code schema fails to exclude invalid initial characters.

[glensc]

permalink for the package.json example:

• https://github.com/CinArb2/demoPackageMng/blob/main@%7B2023-06-08T13:33:29Z%7D/package.json

[Potof-TheOz]

This behavior makes Dependabot failing on my project

i put this in my package.json
"packageManager": "pnpm@^8.6.1",

My github action is working quite well, by detecting the good version automatically.

But dependantBot fails :(

This is the error in the output logs of Dependabot
updater | 2023/11/13 07:51:02 ERROR <job_748887009> Usage Error: Invalid package manager specification in package.json; expected a semver version

So I rollbacked and put my pnpm version hardcoded in my github actions :(

[KSXGitHub]

@Potof-TheOz Caret isn't supported by corepack either. So I guess our unintentional extension was a mistake.