[robobun]

Merge after #38704 (see the last Fix bullet). Found while working on #38704; there is no user report for this one.

Problem

• bun pm pack --filename ./foo.tgz run inside a workspace package writes foo.tgz into the workspace root, not the directory the command was run from.
• bun pm pack --destination ./out (or --filename ./out/x.tgz) run from a subdirectory of a package writes into <package root>/out, not <cwd>/out.
• The two flags also disagree with each other: from a workspace package, a relative --destination lands in the package directory while a relative --filename lands in the workspace root.
• Cause: PackageManager::init chdirs to the package root, or to the workspace root above it, before pack runs (src/install/PackageManager.rs, should_chdir_to_root). tarball_destination in src/runtime/cli/pack_command.rs then copied --filename verbatim (so it was relative to whatever bun chdir'd to) and joined --destination onto the directory of the package being packed. The directory the user typed the path in was not used by either branch.

Fix

• PackageManager::init already returns the invoking directory; bun pm scan, pm version, pm licenses and pm pkg already receive it. Pass it to PackCommand::exec_with_manager too, store it on the pack Context (bun publish fills it in as well, since it shares pack()), and hand it to tarball_destination.
• tarball_destination resolves a non-empty --filename or --destination against that directory. An absolute value still wins (the join keeps it), and with neither flag the base is still the packed package's directory, so the default tarball location, bun publish's pack-then-unlink of that path, and the existing tests are unchanged.
• The --filename join is the bounds-checked variant because it replaces the raw len + 1 > buf.len() check that the verbatim copy had. The --destination join is left as it was; its missing bounds check is pack: report an error instead of panicking when --destination does not fit the path buffer #38749, and this function's error-message arguments were fixed in pack: fill every placeholder in multi-argument error messages #38743 (already on main, this branch is rebased on top of it).
• This is correct because a relative path on the command line means relative to the shell's cwd: npm resolves --pack-destination with path.resolve against process.cwd() (and never chdirs), and docs/pm/cli/pm.mdx already documents --destination ./dist as saving into ./dist/.
• Visible output change: with --filename, the path printed after packing (and by --quiet) is now the resolved absolute path, as it already was for --destination, instead of the flag's raw value.
• Verified with test/cli/install/bun-pack.test.ts, new relative --destination and --filename resolve against the cwd block: workspace package, subdirectory of a workspace package with ../dist (cwd, packed package and process cwd are three different directories there), subdirectory of a plain package, --dry-run, absolute values, the default location, and the over-long --filename error plus a long value that normalizes to one that fits. 6 of the new tests fail on the current release; all 89 in the file pass with this change.
• test/cli/install/bun-publish.test.ts: 39 pass with this change (run with a raised timeout; the debug build here is too slow for the file's 5s lifecycle-script tests).
• Merge after publish: resolve a relative tarball path against the invoking directory #38704. Today cd packages/foo && bun pm pack --filename ./x.tgz && bun publish ./x.tgz works by accident: pack writes to the workspace root and bun publish <tarball> also resolves its argument against the root. publish: resolve a relative tarball path against the invoking directory #38704 on its own fixes the documented bun pm pack && bun publish ./pkg.tgz flow and only breaks this accidental one; this PR on its own breaks the accidental flow without fixing anything on the publish side (verified: pack writes packages/foo/x.tgz, publish still opens <root>/x.tgz), so it is the one that has to go second. The branches merge cleanly in either order; with both applied the flow works and both test files pass (details below). Each PR's tests already pin its own command to the invoking directory; once publish: resolve a relative tarball path against the invoking directory #38704 is on main I will add the literal pack-then-publish round trip to this PR.

Background

• bun pm pack and bun publish share pack() in pack_command.rs. Before either runs, PackageManager::init walks up from the cwd to the nearest package.json, checks whether a package.json further up lists that directory as a workspace, and chdirs the process to the root it settles on. It returns the original cwd as the second element of its result so commands that care about where the user was (--filter, pm version, and now pack) can use it.
• So once pack runs there are up to three different directories in play: the process cwd (workspace root after the chdir), abs_workspace_path (the directory of the package.json being packed, which is the workspace package even when invoked from one of its subdirectories), and the directory the command was run from. Only the last one is what a relative command-line path refers to.
• tarball_destination returns the tarball path plus the length of its directory prefix; the caller mkdir -ps that prefix for --destination. --filename returns 0 there, so its parent directory is not created; that is unchanged (the existing --filename="out/foo.tgz" test relies on it).
• join_abs_string_buf_checked (src/paths/resolve_path.rs) is path.resolve(base, value) into a caller-provided buffer, returning None instead of overflowing it.

Combined check with #38704, and what the first revision of this PR contained

With #38704 merged on top of this branch locally: bun-pack.test.ts and bun-publish.test.ts both pass in full (42 in the publish file, including #38704's three), and from a workspace package bun pm pack --quiet --filename ./x.tgz followed by bun publish --dry-run ./x.tgz reads the tarball from the package directory and prints + foo@1.2.3 (dry-run).

The first revision of this PR also switched the --destination join to the bounds-checked variant and fixed the two err_generic calls in tarball_destination that passed one format_args! to a two-placeholder template. Those are #38749 and #38743 (the latter has since merged), so they were dropped here to keep this PR to the cwd change.

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

The pack and publish commands preserve the original working directory. Explicit relative filenames and destinations resolve from that directory. Default tarball destinations remain workspace-relative. Tests cover path resolution, dry runs, absolute paths, package contents, and PATH_MAX errors.

Changes

Pack path resolution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Preserve the original working directory src/runtime/cli/pack_command.rs, src/runtime/cli/package_manager_command.rs, src/runtime/cli/publish_command.rs	Packing and publishing pass the original working directory through Context and exec_with_manager.
Resolve pack output paths src/runtime/cli/pack_command.rs	Explicit relative filenames and destinations resolve from the original working directory. Default destinations remain relative to the workspace. Dry-run, publish, and archive creation use the resolver.
Validate pack path behavior test/cli/install/bun-pack.test.ts	Tests cover relative and absolute paths, dry runs, default destinations, package contents, incorrect locations, and PATH_MAX handling.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#38322: Both changes modify pack and publish flows, including PackCommand execution.
• oven-sh/bun#38365: Both changes resolve pack paths from a preserved working directory.
• oven-sh/bun#38368: Both changes use checked absolute path joining and overflow-safe resolution.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

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[robobun]

Status: fix is up in this PR, rebased onto current main (b58b4cf). Merge after #38704: this PR on its own would break the pm pack --filename ./x.tgz && publish ./x.tgz flow from a workspace package, which works today only because both commands resolve against the wrong directory; #38704 on its own is fine. The two branches merge cleanly in either order, and the pack-then-publish round trip test will be added here once #38704 is on main.

Reproduced on bun 1.4.0 (release) with the two layouts from the report:

# workspace package: tarball lands in the workspace root
cd packages/foo && bun pm pack --filename ./foo.tgz     # wrote <root>/foo.tgz

# subdirectory of a package: tarball lands in the package root
cd sub && bun pm pack --destination ./out              # wrote <root>/out/packproj-1.0.0.tgz
cd sub && bun pm pack --filename ./out/x.tgz           # wrote <root>/out/x.tgz

USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 bun test test/cli/install/bun-pack.test.ts fails 6 of the tests added here; bun bd test test/cli/install/bun-pack.test.ts passes all 89.

The error-message and --destination length fixes that were in the first revision are #38743 (merged) and #38749.

CI: the diff is green on every lane that has run (177 jobs on each of the last three builds, bun-pack.test.ts and bun-publish.test.ts included, Windows included). The remaining annotations are unrelated tests that passed on retry, and the two darwin 14 aarch64 test jobs have not been picked up by an agent on any of the three builds, so the builds show as still running. Nothing here is waiting on a code change; ping me here once #38704 is in and I will add the round trip test.

[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Since it changes user-visible behavior of bun pm pack — both where the tarball lands for relative --destination/--filename and the --quiet output for --filename (now an absolute path instead of the raw flag value) — a maintainer should confirm the behavior change is desired.

What was reviewed:

• tarball_destination: verified the checked join leaves room for the trailing NUL and the appended filename, and that the default (no-flag) path still uses abs_workspace_path so bun publish's pack-then-unlink and existing --quiet output are unchanged.
• The two-placeholder err_generic calls now pass a 2-tuple instead of a single format_args!, matching FmtTuple.
• original_cwd is threaded into pack::Context from both pm pack and publish; the borrow lives for the duration of pack() only, which is all it needs.
• New tests cover workspace package, subdir with ../, plain-package subdir, --dry-run, absolute values, and the default location; each also asserts the file did NOT land in the wrong directory.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR fixes bun pm pack --destination and --filename to resolve relative paths against the directory the command was invoked from, rather than wherever PackageManager::init chdir'd to (workspace root or package root). It threads the already-available original_cwd from PackageManager::init through PackCommand::exec_with_manager and publish::Context::from_workspace into pack::Context, then uses it as the base for join_abs_string_buf_checked in tarball_destination. Along the way it switches the unchecked join to the checked one (fixing a panic on over-long --destination), and fixes two err_generic calls that were passing a single format_args! to a two-placeholder template.

Security risks

None identified. The change affects only where a tarball is written; both flags are user-supplied on the command line, and join_abs_string_buf_checked is the existing normalized-join helper. Absolute inputs still resolve to themselves. No new file reads, no untrusted input parsing.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate. The logic change is small and well-contained in tarball_destination, but it changes user-visible CLI behavior in two ways: (1) the on-disk location of the tarball for relative flags changes when run from a subdirectory or workspace package, and (2) the --quiet/summary output for --filename becomes an absolute path instead of echoing the raw flag. Both are called out in the PR description, both align with npm's --pack-destination behavior and Bun's own docs, and there is precedent in #38704 for bun publish <tarball>. Still, a change to what a scriptable CLI prints and where it writes files is the kind of thing a maintainer should sign off on rather than an automated approval.

Other factors

The test coverage is good: eight new test.concurrent cases exercise workspace package, subdirectory of a workspace package with ../dist (three distinct candidate directories), subdirectory of a plain package, --dry-run, absolute values, and the default location, each asserting both the correct location and the absence of the tarball in the previously-incorrect locations. The existing --filename and --destination conflict test was strengthened from a bare toThrowError() to asserting the exact (now-fixed) error text. I checked that the NUL-terminator write after the checked join is in-bounds (join_buf_len = dest_buf.len() - 1), that the default branch still bases on abs_workspace_path so the no-flag output stays the bare filename, and that the --filename branch still returns 0 for the dir-prefix length so its parent directory is not auto-created (the existing --filename="out/foo.tgz" test relies on this).

[robobun]

^{Updated 5:49 AM PT - Aug 15th, 2026}

✅ @robobun, your commit b58b4cfcd64e1cb1ab1df1c633346db2745f9b16 passed in Build #97561! 🎉

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[claude]

Additional findings (outside current diff — PR may have been updated during review):

• 🟡 src/runtime/cli/pack_command.rs:3058-3062 — The description still claims three fixes that commit 5a8f1a1 reverted: (1) "Both branches now use the checked join" — --destination at line 3058 still uses unchecked join_abs_string_buf, so an over-long value still panics; (2) the two two-argument error messages (lines 3020-3027, 3077-3088) still pass a single format_args! to a two-{} template; (3) the --filename and --destination test still uses bare .toThrowError(). Please drop those three sentences (and the Problem-section --destination-panic bullet) from the description so reviewers don't approve on the assumption those bugs are fixed here.

  Extended reasoning...

  What the finding is

  The PR's second commit, 5a8f1a1 ("leave the error-message and --destination length changes to their own PRs"), deliberately reverted three ancillary fixes but the PR description was not updated to match. The description therefore overstates what this PR does, in violation of CLAUDE.md #11 ("NEVER overstate what you got done or what actually works ... in PRs").

  The three stale claims, verified against HEAD (5a8f1a1)

  Claim 1 — "Both branches now use the checked join, so an over-long --filename/--destination reports the existing 'too long' error instead of panicking."

  False for --destination. At src/runtime/cli/pack_command.rs:3058-3062, the --destination branch still calls the unchecked resolve_path::join_abs_string_buf:

  let tarball_destination_dir = resolve_path::join_abs_string_buf::<
      resolve_path::platform::Auto,
  >(
      destination_base, dest_buf, &[pack_destination]
  );

  Only the --filename branch (line 3034) uses join_abs_string_buf_checked. The description's own Background section says "the unchecked variant indexes past the buffer", so the description simultaneously documents the panic and claims to have fixed it. The Problem section's bullet "--destination with a value longer than a path buffer also panicked" is likewise stale — it's still true after this PR.

  Claim 2 — "its two two-argument error messages were passing a single format_args! to a two-placeholder template ... they now pass both arguments."

  False. At lines 3020-3027, Output::err_generic is still called with the two-placeholder template cannot use both ... filename "{}" and destination "{}" and a single format_args!("{} {}", filename, destination), so the message still renders as filename "a.tgz out" and destination "". The same shape remains at lines 3077-3088 for archive destination name too long: "{}/{}".

  Claim 3 — "the --filename and --destination test now asserts the message."

  False. test/cli/install/bun-pack.test.ts line 393 still reads:

  expect(async () => await pack(packageDir, bunEnv, "--filename=test.tgz", "--destination=packed")).toThrowError();

  No message argument. The diff does not touch this test at all.

  Why this matters

  Commit 5a8f1a1's own message confirms the intent: "leave the error-message and --destination length changes to their own PRs". The revert is deliberate; the description just wasn't kept in sync. A reviewer reading only the description would reasonably conclude the --destination overflow panic and both error-message formatting bugs are fixed here and might approve on that basis — or skip re-reviewing a follow-up PR that actually fixes them because "that already landed".

  The code that is in the diff is correct for what it does (resolve relative flags against the invoking cwd), so this is a description-accuracy issue, not a code defect.

  How to fix

  Edit the PR description to drop the three reverted claims. Concretely:

  • In Problem, delete the final bullet about --destination panicking on an over-long value (still true, still unfixed here).
  • In Fix, delete the sentence beginning "Both branches now use the checked join ..." and the following sentence about the two two-argument error messages.
  • In the Verified with paragraph, drop "plus the --filename and --destination test now asserts the message" and adjust "6 of the new/changed" to reflect only the tests actually added (the --filename and --destination test is unchanged).

  Step-by-step proof

  1. git log --oneline -2 on this branch shows 5a8f1a1e pm pack: leave the error-message and --destination length changes to their own PRs on top of 9c637def.
  2. Open src/runtime/cli/pack_command.rs at HEAD and go to line 3058: the call is resolve_path::join_abs_string_buf::<...>(destination_base, dest_buf, &[pack_destination]) — no _checked suffix. Compare with line 3034 in the --filename branch, which does call join_abs_string_buf_checked.
  3. At line 3020, the err_generic call for "cannot use both" takes format_args!("{} {}", filename, destination) as its single argument tuple, feeding a template with two {} placeholders — the second placeholder receives nothing.
  4. grep -n 'toThrowError' test/cli/install/bun-pack.test.ts shows the --filename and --destination test still calls .toThrowError() with no argument; git diff main -- test/cli/install/bun-pack.test.ts shows no hunk touching that test.
  5. Read the PR description's Fix section: it still contains all three claims contradicted by steps 2-4.

[robobun]

The description was rewritten when 5a8f1a1 was pushed and no longer makes those three claims (the review above was generated against the earlier text). The current description only describes the cwd change; the --destination length check and the error-message arguments are #38749 and #38743, and the earlier account is kept in the collapsed section at the bottom.

[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it changes user-visible behavior (where relative --filename/--destination land, and the --quiet --filename output becoming absolute) and the description explicitly asks that it land together with #38704 to avoid breaking the workspace pack --filename && publish flow, a human look to coordinate the merge order would be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• tarball_destination's new join logic — join_abs_string_buf_checked writes into dest_buf[..len-1] and the NUL at tarball_name_len stays in bounds; absolute flag values still win via the join.
• destination_base selection keeps abs_workspace_path when neither flag is set, so the default location and bun publish's pack-then-unlink path are unchanged.
• original_cwd threading through exec_with_manager/from_workspace — the pack Context is local to from_workspace so the borrow lifetime is fine.
• Existing --filename="..." tests don't assert on stdout, so the output-format change does not break them.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR threads the invoking directory (the second element returned by PackageManager::init) into bun pm pack and bun publish's shared pack() path, stores it on pack::Context, and has tarball_destination resolve non-empty --filename/--destination values against it instead of against wherever PackageManager::init chdir'd to. The --filename branch switches from a raw copy_from_slice to join_abs_string_buf_checked (bounds-checked, into dest_buf[..len-1] with a NUL appended after); the --destination branch keeps its existing unchecked join but swaps the base to original_cwd when the flag is present. Ten new test.concurrent cases in bun-pack.test.ts cover workspace packages, subdirectories, --dry-run, absolute values, the default location, and the PATH_MAX error path.

Security risks

None identified. The path resolution uses the existing resolve_path helpers; original_cwd comes from PackageManager::init (the process's own invocation directory), not from untrusted input. The change does not introduce new file writes outside what --destination/--filename already permitted.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. The code change is small and the logic is straightforward, but this is a user-visible behavior change to a CLI command's output location. The PR description is explicit that landing this alone breaks the cd packages/foo && bun pm pack --filename ./x.tgz && bun publish ./x.tgz flow (which currently works only because both commands resolve against the wrong directory), and that it should land together with #38704. That merge-ordering constraint is something a human maintainer should confirm before merging.

Other factors

• All prior bot review threads (comment-cop on long doc comments, CodeRabbit on error-message wording) are resolved; the doc comments were shortened and the error-message change was correctly deferred to #38743.
• The --quiet --filename output changes from the raw flag value to a resolved absolute path. I checked the existing filenameTests in bun-pack.test.ts — they only assert on readTarball(dest), not on stdout, so they are unaffected.
• The new tests are hermetic (tempDir, test.concurrent, no network), assert both the positive location (via readTarball) and the negative (exists(...).toBeFalse() at the wrong locations), and the PATH_MAX suite is correctly skipped on Windows.
• I verified join_abs_string_buf_checked's contract in src/paths/resolve_path.rs: it returns None on overflow and otherwise a slice within the provided buffer, so dest_buf[tarball_name_len] = 0 (with tarball_name_len <= dest_buf.len() - 1) is always in bounds.

[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Deferring to a human because this changes user-visible behavior (where relative --destination/--filename write and what --quiet prints) and the description says it must land together with #38704 to avoid breaking the pack --filename ./x.tgz && publish ./x.tgz flow from a workspace package — merge ordering needs a human decision.

What was reviewed

• tarball_destination: verified join_abs_string_buf_checked semantics, the - 1 reservation for the NUL terminator, and that ZStr::from_buf receives the correct length; absolute inputs still win via the join.
• destination_base selection keeps the default (no flag) at abs_workspace_path, so bun publish's pack-then-unlink path is unchanged.
• original_cwd lifetime through publish_command.rs — the borrow is confined to the local pack::Context and does not escape into the returned publish Context.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR threads the invoking directory (the second element of PackageManager::init's return) through PackCommand::exec_with_manager, the pack Context, and bun publish's from_workspace, and uses it as the base for resolving relative --destination and --filename in tarball_destination. The --filename branch switches from a verbatim copy to join_abs_string_buf_checked (bounds-checked, one byte reserved for the NUL). The --destination branch swaps its join base from abs_workspace_path to original_cwd when the flag is non-empty, leaving the default location unchanged. Ten new tests cover workspace packages, subdirectories of workspace and plain packages, ../ traversal, --dry-run, absolute paths, the default location, and PATH_MAX overflow/normalization.

Security risks

None identified. The change is CLI path resolution for an output tarball; inputs are the user's own flags and cwd. The bounds-checked join replaces a raw length check, which is a strict improvement. No new filesystem reads of untrusted data, no privilege boundaries crossed.

Level of scrutiny

Medium. The code change is small and mechanically sound, but it is a user-facing behavior change: relative --destination/--filename now land in a different directory than before, and --quiet with --filename now prints an absolute path instead of the raw flag value. Anyone scripting around the old (buggy) behavior will see a difference. The PR description also explicitly requires coordinated landing with #38704 — landing this alone breaks cd packages/foo && bun pm pack --filename ./x.tgz && bun publish ./x.tgz, which works today by accident. That merge-ordering decision needs a human.

Other factors

• The bug hunting system found no issues; I independently traced join_abs_string_buf_checked in src/paths/resolve_path.rs and confirmed it handles absolute parts, .. normalization that shrinks below the buffer, and returns None on overflow — matching the two new PATH_MAX tests.
• All prior inline comments (comment-cop, CodeRabbit) are resolved; the long comments were shortened and the error-message wording was correctly deferred to #38743.
• The last robobun CI status comment (Build #97349) reported failures for an intermediate commit; a later commit (b58b4cf) has since landed but no updated status is visible in the timeline, so CI green should be confirmed before merge.
• Test coverage is thorough: each of the three-directory scenarios (invoking cwd, packed package dir, process cwd after chdir) is exercised, the negative locations are asserted absent, and tarball contents are checked — not just existence.

[Jarred-Sumner]

This is Claude (an AI assistant) writing on Jarred's behalf.

Included in #44968.