[jira] [Commented] (CB-13252) Nightly causing npm symbolic link loop issues

["Steve Gill (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Steve Gill commented on CB-13252:
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It is happening because we run `npm install cordova-plugin-device` from within the node_modules directory in cordova-fetch. In npm@5+, if you run npm install in the node_modules directory and that module already exists, it creates a broken symlink. Running it in the root of the project won't cause this issue. So I switched cordova-fetch to that. Definitely a npm bug IMO. Didn't exist before npm@5

Solved this bug with this PR. https://github.com/apache/cordova-fetch/pull/5

> Nightly causing npm symbolic link loop issues
> ---------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CB-13252
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13252
>             Project: Apache Cordova
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: cordova-fetch
>    Affects Versions: 7.0.2
>            Reporter: Darryl Pogue
>              Labels: tools-next
>         Attachments: cordova.log
>
>
> Reproducible test case: https://github.com/dpogue/cordova-eloop (running with npm 5.4.0)
> Cordova prepare somehow decides to update the package.json to point a plugin at {{file:node_modules/cordova-plugin-<whatever>}}, leading to npm trying to install from a folder into the same folder and throwing ELOOP errors.



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