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Problem

  • A git or github dependency is installed straight from its checkout. Most such packages build their entry point in a prepare script with tools from their devDependencies (tsc, tshy, tsup, ...), and nothing installs those devDependencies.
  • With the package in trustedDependencies, bun runs the script anyway and the whole install fails:
    bash: tshy: command not found / error: prepare script from "rimraf" exited with 127. bun pm trust <pkg> fails the same way.
  • Cause: Scripts::get_script_entries (src/install/lockfile/Package/Scripts.rs) queues the prepare family for Git/Github resolutions like any other lifecycle script, and LifecycleScriptSubprocess runs it in node_modules/<pkg> with only the package's hoisted runtime dependencies around. npm and pnpm install the checkout's dependencies and devDependencies before running prepare.

Fix

  • List gets install_dependencies_for_prepare, set in create_list for Git/Github packages that have a preprepare/prepare/postprepare script.
  • The runner (lifecycle_script_runner.rs) then spawns bun install --ignore-scripts --no-save with the package directory as cwd before the first prepare-family script, runs the scripts as before, and removes what the nested install left when the last script exits or anything fails (non-zero exit, signal, spawn failure). --ignore-scripts because the runner is in the middle of running this package's own scripts; --no-save so the package.json and a committed lockfile stay as they are. A bun.lock the nested install still writes while migrating a committed package-lock.json (bun saves migrated lockfiles regardless of --no-save) is removed too.
  • Removing the nested node_modules matters: the nested install also installs the package's peer and regular dependencies, so leaving it in place would make the package load its own copies of react and friends instead of the project's. The package's runtime dependencies are the ones the project installed, outside the package directory with both linkers.
  • A node_modules the package already has (with the hoisted linker: version conflicts bun nested there; or one committed to the repository) is renamed to .bun-prepare-node_modules for the duration and renamed back at the end; an empty placeholder is created when there was none. Finding that directory already present means an earlier run was interrupted: it still holds the original, so the current node_modules is the leftovers and gets deleted instead. If the package directory cannot be prepared this way (rename/mkdir failure, path too long), bun warns and leaves the installed dependencies in place.
  • spawn_package_lifecycle_scripts builds a second environment for the nested install with BUN_CONFIG_REGISTRY (+ BUN_CONFIG_TOKEN, only ever together with its registry) when the project overrides the default registry or has a token, and BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR. The nested install's project directory is the checkout, so it would not otherwise see the project's bunfig.toml/.npmrc.
  • Failure messages share one prefix: a failing nested install prints its output and error: bun install --ignore-scripts --no-save for the prepare script of "<pkg>" exited with 1; scripts keep their existing error: prepare script from "<pkg>" exited with N text. Optional dependencies are dropped like they are for any failing script.
  • Nothing changes for untrusted packages (Blocked 1 postinstall / bun pm untrusted as before), for --ignore-scripts, or for npm/folder/tarball packages. bun pm trust and the isolated linker use the same runner.
  • Verified with the new describe block in test/cli/install/bun-install-lifecycle-scripts.test.ts: hoisted and isolated linker (the repository ships a package-lock.json, so the migrated bun.lock cleanup is exercised), a pre-existing nested node_modules and a committed bun.lock survive while the devDependency is removed, bun pm trust, a failing nested install, and recovery from an interrupted run. Against the released bun, 8 of the original 10 cases fail with what-bin: command not found / exit 127; with this change all pass.
  • The rest of bun-install-lifecycle-scripts.test.ts, bun-pm.test.ts and isolated-install.test.ts pass locally (the existing github preprepare/prepare/postprepare test now also exercises the nested install); cargo check -p bun_install --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc is clean.
  • All cases run on every platform. An earlier revision skipped the isolated-linker case on Windows because the isolated store path of a git dependency exceeded MAX_PATH and no lifecycle script of such a package could be spawned there; install: bound isolated store entry names; tarball URL credentials; file: tarballs relative to their folder package #38867 bounds those store names on main, and after rebasing onto it the case passes on Windows (the set-aside placeholder is created through mkdirat, which takes the long-path route there; mkdir goes through libuv and stops at MAX_PATH).
  • Docs: a section in docs/pm/lifecycle.mdx and a pointer from the git dependencies section of docs/pm/cli/add.mdx, which did not mention that trustedDependencies is what turns prepare on.

Fixes #10297

Supersedes #35677, which injected the nested install into the preprepare slot but left the installed devDependencies (and peers) in node_modules/<pkg>/node_modules.

Known limits, unchanged from before: the checkout is copied as is (files is not applied), the lifecycle scripts of the package's own dependencies do not run during the nested install, and scoped registries / _auth credentials are not forwarded to it. Whether prepare should run without trustedDependencies (npm's behavior) is a separate policy decision and not touched here.

Background

  • Lifecycle scripts: package.json scripts that package managers run while installing. preinstall/install/postinstall run for every installed package; preprepare/prepare/postprepare run for the project itself and, because there is no published build to download, for packages installed from git. Bun only runs a dependency's scripts if it is in trustedDependencies (git dependencies are never in the default allow list).
  • LifecycleScriptSubprocess: one instance per package with scripts. It holds the package's List (one optional command per script slot, in Scripts::NAMES order: preinstall, install, postinstall, preprepare, prepare, postprepare), spawns the slots one after another through sh -c (bun exec on Windows), and handles each exit in handle_exit. The nested install is one more spawn of the same object, with a direct argv instead of a shell command; current_script_index keeps pointing at the prepare script it is preparing for.
  • Hoisted vs isolated linker: the hoisted linker copies packages into node_modules and puts version conflicts into node_modules/<pkg>/node_modules; the isolated linker puts each package in node_modules/.bun/<pkg>@<version>/node_modules/<pkg> with its dependencies symlinked next to it. In both layouts the package's runtime dependencies live outside the package directory, which is why everything the nested install writes inside it can be removed again.
Earlier revision

The first push deleted a leftover .bun-prepare-node_modules at the start of a run and only cleaned up on a non-zero exit, which would have destroyed the package's own nested dependencies after an interrupted run; it also left a migrated bun.lock behind and reported a failed nested install as installing the dependencies of "<pkg>" for its prepare script failed (...). Review of that revision led to the placeholder/interrupted-run handling, the cleanup on every failure path, the lockfile removal, the shared message prefix, and the length-checked paths described above.


no test proof · iteration 5 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/cli/install/bun-install-lifecycle-scripts.test.ts

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Git dependencies with prepare scripts now receive temporary development dependency installation when trusted. Bun forwards install configuration, runs the prepare lifecycle, restores existing dependency state, and removes temporary artifacts. Tests and documentation cover the new behavior.

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Git dependency preparation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Prepare dependency detection and environment
src/install/lockfile/Package/Scripts.rs, src/install/PackageManager/PackageManagerLifecycle.rs
Git and GitHub packages with prepare scripts set install_dependencies_for_prepare. Nested installs receive registry, token, and cache settings.
Nested install and lifecycle execution
src/install/lifecycle_script_runner.rs
The lifecycle runner installs dependencies with bun install --ignore-scripts --no-save, runs prepare scripts, restores existing dependencies, removes generated lockfiles, and centralizes failure cleanup.
Validation and documentation
test/cli/install/bun-install-lifecycle-scripts.test.ts, docs/pm/cli/add.mdx, docs/pm/lifecycle.mdx
Tests cover linkers, trust, cleanup, failures, and interrupted preparation. Documentation describes trust requirements and the prepare execution sequence.

Suggested reviewers: dylan-conway, jarred-sumner

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 9fdac

Git dependencies will now install their development tools before prepare scripts, but packages using scoped registries may still fail to prepare unless registry settings are forwarded, and a small lint cleanup is needed. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up.

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Reproduced on the released bun (1.3.14 and current canary) with a local repository whose package.json has "scripts": {"prepare": "mktool"} and mktool in devDependencies:

# trustedDependencies: ["prep-lib2"]
$ bun install
bash: line 1: mktool: command not found
error: prepare script from "prep-lib2" exited with 127        # exit 127, no lockfile written

Same thing with github:isaacs/rimraf#v6.1.3 (prepare: tshy). With this branch both install and the built dist/ is in place; bun pm trust prep-lib2 on a previously blocked install works as well. Without trustedDependencies the behavior is unchanged (Blocked 1 postinstall. Run \bun pm untrusted` for details.`).

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Updated 10:10 PM PT - Aug 27th, 2026

❌ @robobun, your commit 2736cba has 3 failures in Build #107285 (All Failures):


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 38810

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-38810 executable, so you can run:

bun-38810 --bun

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/pm/lifecycle.mdx`:
- Around line 78-80: Update the lifecycle steps to document the nested command
as “bun install --ignore-scripts --no-save”, including that package.json and any
committed lockfile remain unchanged. Revise step 3 to state that the
installation cleanup restores a pre-existing node_modules folder when one was
present, rather than always removing it.

In `@src/install/lifecycle_script_runner.rs`:
- Around line 382-394: Update the non-ENOENT error arm in restore_node_modules’s
renameat handling to emit a warning before returning false; include the affected
directory, the failed rename operation, and that the nested install may write
into the real node_modules and leave changes behind, matching the warning style
used by finish.
- Around line 363-368: Update path_in_package to use AutoAbsPathChecked and
propagate MaxPathExceeded instead of discarding append failures. Adjust
lifecycle cleanup callers to handle construction errors and skip each filesystem
operation when a target path cannot be built.

In `@src/install/lockfile/Package/Scripts.rs`:
- Around line 436-439: In the List implementation near FIRST_PREPARE_INDEX, add
a compile-time assertion that the constant matches the index of preprepare
defined by LockfileScripts::NAMES and Scripts::hooks(). Ensure the assertion
fails if either hook-ordering table is reordered, while preserving the existing
constant and runtime behavior.

In `@src/install/PackageManager/PackageManagerLifecycle.rs`:
- Around line 465-469: Update the cache-directory setup around
get_cache_directory to propagate its error instead of discarding it, and only
add BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR to script_env when cache_directory_path is non-empty;
leave the variable unset for an empty path so nested installs use their default.
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On the comment-length lint threads: the comments it flagged in the first revision were cut down or removed in 8b6eee3 and edfb67b. The ones still flagged are two or three lines each and state something the code cannot say by itself (what .bun-prepare-node_modules means when it already exists, that a migrated lockfile is written despite --no-save, why the two flags, why the nested install does not see the project config, why its node_modules has to go), so I am leaving those as they are; none of them is justifying a workaround. Resolving the lint threads.

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I reviewed this PR and the automated bug hunt found no issues. Because it's a substantial feature addition to the package manager — spawning a nested bun install, forwarding registry credentials via env vars, and managing node_modules set-aside/restore across interrupted runs — a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • PrepareDependencies state machine — remove_prepare_dependencies runs on every terminal path (non-zero exit, signal, Status::Err, spawn failure, success); the optional-dependency failure path skips it but deinit_and_delete_package removes the whole package dir, which contains the set-aside directory.
  • set_aside_node_modules / finish: placeholder mkdir/rmdir pair up, a pre-existing .bun-prepare-node_modules is treated as the original from an interrupted run, and AutoAbsPathChecked bounds every path.
  • install_dependencies_for_prepare is set only for Git/Github resolutions with a prepare-family script; FIRST_PREPARE_INDEX is tied to LockfileScripts::NAMES by a compile-time assert.
  • The earlier stdout-drain nit is addressed (both affected test spawns now use stdout: "ignore").
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR makes bun install run a nested bun install --ignore-scripts --no-save inside a git/github dependency's directory before its preprepare/prepare/postprepare scripts, so build tools from the package's devDependencies are available (matching npm/pnpm). It touches lifecycle_script_runner.rs (~250 lines added: a PrepareDependencies state enum, NestedInstallCleanup with begin/finish, an alternate argv/envp for the nested spawn, and cleanup calls threaded through every exit path of handle_exit), PackageManagerLifecycle.rs (builds a second env map forwarding BUN_CONFIG_REGISTRY/BUN_CONFIG_TOKEN/BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR), Scripts.rs (a new install_dependencies_for_prepare flag on List with a compile-time assert on FIRST_PREPARE_INDEX), two docs pages, and ~310 lines of new tests plus a createGitDependency helper.

Security risks

The nested install receives the project's default-registry token via BUN_CONFIG_TOKEN in its environment. That's the same bun binary in a subdirectory of node_modules, and the token only travels alongside its own registry URL, so this is scoped — but it is a new place a credential flows and the PR explicitly notes scoped registries / _auth are not forwarded. delete_tree calls target paths built from the package's own cwd (already the lifecycle-script cwd) with fixed suffixes via length-checked AutoAbsPathChecked, so there is no user-controlled path segment.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is a user-visible behavior change to bun install in a subsystem where a wrong delete_tree or a mishandled interrupted run corrupts a project's node_modules. The set-aside/restore protocol (.bun-prepare-node_modules as sentinel/placeholder), the decision to leave installed deps in place when the rename fails (with a warning), and the credential-forwarding scope are all design calls a maintainer should confirm.

Other factors

Test coverage is thorough (hoisted + isolated linkers, bun pm trust, failing nested install, interrupted-run recovery, committed bun.lock preservation, migrated-lockfile cleanup) and hermetic (local git repo + verdaccio). All prior review threads (CodeRabbit, comment-cop, my stdout-drain nit) are resolved in the current diff. The isolated-linker case is skipped on Windows for a documented pre-existing bug. One candidate issue about a leftover migrated bun.lock after an interrupted run was examined and ruled out this run.

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The Windows failure of the isolated-linker case here (the git dependency's store entry embeds the repository URL and the package directory passes MAX_PATH, so the script cwd is rejected and the script fails with ENOENT) is fixed in #38867, which bounds the resolution part of isolated store entry names to 80 bytes. Once both land, the isWindows && linker === "isolated" skip in this test can be removed; with that change the package directory in this test's layout comes out around 225 characters on the Windows CI temp path.

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CI status for edfb67b (build 97171): every lane that ran is green; the only failures are six tests tagged flaky that passed on retry, none of them related to this change. The two darwin 14 aarch64 - test-bun jobs never ran: they expired waiting for an agent (that lane currently has a backlog of a few hundred queued jobs across all branches on six agents), and one of them has used up its automatic retries, so the build stays red until that job is retried once the queue drains. The previous revision (709ee82, build 97100) passed the darwin 14 aarch64 lane; the changes since then are the cleanup/error-path edits in lifecycle_script_runner.rs and test additions, which passed on all other lanes. Nothing further is pending on my side.

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…ile: tarballs relative to their folder package (#38867)

This PR bundles three independent install fixes (each was reviewed on
its own PR; folded here so they land together):

1. bound the resolution part of isolated store entry names (this PR's
original change)
2. send credentials embedded in a tarball URL as Basic authorization
(from #39025)
3. read `file:` tarballs relative to the `file:` folder package that
declares them (from #39017)

Rebased on main after #39014: the isolated-store test file now computes
expected git entry names through the same resolution cut
(`storeEntryName`), since a `git+http+++host+port+repo.git+<url
hash>+<sha>` resolution passes 80 bytes.

---

## 1. install: bound the resolution part of isolated store entry names

#### Problem

- With `linker = "isolated"`, a trusted git dependency with any
lifecycle script makes `bun install` fail on Windows with `error: Failed
to run script prepare due to error ENOENT` (exit 1). The same project
installs fine with the hoisted linker. This is the Windows failure of
the isolated case in #38810's test, which that PR currently skips on
Windows.
- A store entry is named `<name>@<resolution>` (`StoreKeyFormatter`,
`src/install/isolated_install/Store.rs`). For git, github, tarball and
folder dependencies the resolution is the whole URL or path with
separators turned into `+` (`src/install/repository.rs`
`StorePathFormatter`, `src/install/resolution.rs` `StorePathFormatter`),
plus the commit for git: a git dependency checked out from a temp
directory gets an entry like
`dep@git+file++++C++Users+AZUREU~1+AppData+Local+Temp+lc-repro+dep-repo+3c6955c70dbe1ff186a126c93c5e77c3ae7bd6b4`
(111 bytes here, 170+ in #38810's test), and the name grows with the
repository path.
- The package directory,
`<project>\node_modules\.bun\<entry>\node_modules\<name>`, is the cwd of
the package's lifecycle scripts (`Scripts::get_list` ->
`lifecycle_script_runner.rs` `SpawnOptions.cwd`). bun's own file
operations use long-path-capable NT paths, so the entry is created and
linked, but `CreateProcessW` does not accept a current directory longer
than `MAX_PATH`, and the spawn (libuv's `uv_spawn` on Windows) reports
that as ENOENT. Measured on Windows x64 with the released
`1.4.0-canary.1`: a package directory of 238 characters runs the script,
one of 268 characters fails as above.
- The same unbounded name also fails on every platform once it passes
`NAME_MAX`: a tarball URL or folder path of 250+ bytes makes the install
fail with `ENAMETOOLONG: File name too long: failed to link package`
(the case of #37470).

#### Fix

- `StoreKeyFormatter` now writes the resolution through
`write_resolution`: a resolution of at most 80 bytes
(`MAX_RESOLUTION_LEN`) is written unchanged; a longer one is written as
its first 63 bytes (backed up to a UTF-8 character boundary) followed by
`+` and the 16 hex digit wyhash of the full text (seed 0, so
`Bun.hash(text)` reproduces it), which is 80 bytes again. The `name@`
prefix and the `+<peer hash>` suffix are unchanged. A cut git entry
looks like
`dep@git+file++++C++Users+AZUREU~1+AppData+Local+Temp+lc-repro-aaaaa+ef7ad81a431ad661`
(the 268 character case from the measurement above; its package
directory is now 206 characters).
- Why this is correct:
- Every path that contains an entry name is formatted through this one
`Display` impl: the project store directory and the dependency symlinks
into it (`Installer.rs` `append_store_path` /
`append_store_node_modules_path` / `link_to_hidden_node_modules`), the
lifecycle script cwd (same `append_store_path`), the global store
directory name and the entry hash seeded from the name (`Installer.rs`
`append_global_store_entry_path`, `isolated_install.rs` entry hash),
`bun pm prune`'s set of expected directories (`prune.rs`
`push_store_entry_names`) and `bun pm licenses`'s lookup
(`pm_licenses_command.rs` `BunStore::lookup`, via `fmt_store_key`). They
all see the same cut name; nothing persists or parses the old one (the
lockfile stores resolutions, and an existing entry is detected by
re-deriving its name).
- The cut name stays a function of the resolution alone, so repeated
installs find the same entry, and two resolutions that agree on the
first 63 bytes still get distinct entries through the hash. The sink
hashes the text in whatever chunks the formatters write it in (the path
formatters write one character at a time); `Wyhash`'s streaming form is
chunk-invariant (`test_iterative_chunked_matches_oneshot` in
`src/wyhash/lib.rs`), which is what lets the tests compute the expected
names with `Bun.hash`.
- The cut happens inside the resolution only, so `prune.rs`
(`split_store_key`, `store_has_entries`, `store_link_target`, which
split the name at `@`) and `pm licenses` (which matches `<key>` or
`<key>+<peer hash>`) keep working without changes.
- Resolutions of 80 bytes or less are byte for byte what they were, so
versions and `github:` shorthands (`github+owner+repo+<sha>` is about 60
to 75 bytes) are unaffected on upgrade. Most full git URLs are over 80
bytes (`git+https+++github.com+` is 23 bytes and the commit adds 41), so
those entries are re-created once under the cut name on the first
install after upgrading, and the old directories stay until `bun pm
prune`, as for any re-resolved entry. The cut keeps the URL itself
readable:
`git-pkg@git+file++++tmp+licenses-git-repo_eXITMt+491eb29762d8d19b570b43+f87e35b31f207dd4`.
- 80 is the tunable here. The package directory is `<project> + 34 + 2 *
<name> + <resolution>` (+17 with peers) characters, so with 80 it fits
`MAX_PATH` whenever `<project> + 2 * <name>` is at most 145 (128 with
peers); #38810's case (61 character temp dir, 25 character name) ends up
at about 225 instead of about 290. It also makes the entry directory
name fit `NAME_MAX` together with every suffix the installers append
(`+<peer hash>`, `-<entry hash>`, `.tmp-<hex>`) for names up to 119
bytes, and with the peer suffix alone for names up to 157 bytes. For
comparison, pnpm's `virtual-store-dir-max-length` defaults to 120 bytes
for the whole directory name; 80 bytes of resolution plus a typical name
lands in the same range.
- #37470 (the same mechanism with a 200 byte limit on the whole
`name@resolution`, for the `NAME_MAX` case only) is closed in favor of
this PR: that limit does not help the `MAX_PATH` case (the failing names
above are 130 to 180 bytes), and a cut through `name@` would no longer
work with `bun pm prune` / `pm licenses` (see the `prune.rs` bullet
above). Its repro installs with this branch and its deep-directory case
is carried over below. What it covered and this PR does not is the name
part: a name over 119 bytes (157 in the project store) can still produce
an entry over `NAME_MAX` once its resolution is cut; if that should be
covered too, it would be the same sink applied to the name separately,
keeping the `@`. #36973 (documenting the layout) would need a sentence
about this rule; this PR adds a short one to
`docs/pm/isolated-installs.mdx`. #38810's Windows skip of its isolated
case can be removed once both land. #39014 changes the same text (it
removes URL credentials, and the hash is of the text as formatted), so
landing it in the same release as this avoids renaming those entries
twice.
- Verification, `long store entry names` in
`test/cli/install/isolated-install.test.ts`:
- a folder resolution of exactly 80 bytes is kept verbatim and one of 81
bytes is cut to the name computed with `Bun.hash`; two resolutions of
one package that only differ after the cut point get separate entries
that each resolve to their own package; a second install finds the same
entries
- a cut entry with a resolved peer gets `+<peer hash>` appended after
the cut name and links the peer
- a folder name made of 2 byte characters, positioned so that byte 63
falls inside a character, is cut at byte 62 and still installs (without
the character boundary loop this case panics with `a formatting trait
implementation returned an error`; the test only asserts the shape
because the spelling of non-ASCII bytes in these names is #32304's
subject)
- (carried over from #37470) a local tarball and a folder three 85 byte
directories deep, whose unbounded entry names would be 277 bytes,
install; the top-level symlinks and the `.bun/node_modules` fallback
link point at the cut names, and a second install finds the same entries
- a tarball URL of about 290 bytes installs with `install.globalStore`
enabled: the local entry has the cut name, links to `links/<cut
name>-<entry hash>`, and the package imports at runtime
- the reported case: a trusted `git+file://` dependency whose repository
directory name alone is 60 characters runs its postinstall script with
the isolated linker; the entry has the cut name
- Without the `Store.rs` change the first three tests and the git one
fail on the entry name (on Windows the git one fails with `error: Failed
to run script postinstall due to error ENOENT`, the reported message)
and the deep-directory and tarball ones exit 1 with `ENAMETOOLONG`; all
of them pass with `bun bd test` on Linux (the five original ones also on
a local Windows x64 build; the deep-directory one on the Windows lanes
in CI). #37470's repro from its description (`./x/../` x130 tarball
spec) installs with this branch with an 84 byte entry.
- Also run with the fix: the rest of `isolated-install.test.ts`,
`bun-pm-licenses.test.ts` (its `git dependency is listed (isolated)`
case now goes through a cut name on every platform, since the repo lives
in a temp dir), `bun-prune.test.ts`, `public-hoist-pattern.test.ts`,
`isolated-relink.test.ts`, `bun-install-native-binlink.test.ts`,
`config-version.test.ts`, and the PowerShell reproduction from the
report on Windows x64 (package directory of 268 characters before, 206
after, script runs).

#### Background

- Isolated linker: instead of hoisting, every package is materialized
once under `node_modules/.bun/<entry>/node_modules/<name>` and
everything else symlinks to it. `<entry>` is `<name>@<resolution>`, plus
`+<16 hex>` when the package was installed for a specific set of peer
dependencies. With `install.globalStore`, `node_modules/.bun/<entry>` is
itself a symlink to `<cache>/links/<entry>-<16 hex entry hash>`.
- Resolution: the lockfile's description of where a package came from.
It is the version for registry packages and the spec itself (folder
path, tarball URL, git URL plus commit) for everything else, which is
why only those entries get long.
- `MAX_PATH`: Windows' 260 character limit for paths passed to Win32
APIs. Applications can opt out of it for file operations (bun does, by
using `\\?\` / NT paths), but the current directory handed to
`CreateProcess` is still limited to it, and libuv maps the resulting
Win32 error to ENOENT.
- `NAME_MAX`: the 255 byte limit on one path component on Linux and
macOS (255 UTF-16 units on NTFS); exceeding it fails with `ENAMETOOLONG`
regardless of how long the whole path is.

<details>
<summary>Windows measurement with the released build
(1.4.0-canary.1)</summary>

Git repo and project created under `%TEMP%` with `linker = "isolated"`,
`trustedDependencies: ["dep"]` and `"prepare": "echo prepared >
prepared.txt"`; the temp directory name was lengthened to move the
package directory across the limit.

```
store entry: dep@git+file++++C++Users+AZUREU~1+AppData+Local+Temp+lc-repro-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa+dep-repo+d1a8f7c4111533cb16b52a9edcb086329e6472b5
pkg dir len: 238
prepared.txt exists: True
exit: 0

store entry: dep@git+file++++C++Users+AZUREU~1+AppData+Local+Temp+lc-repro-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa+dep-repo+30b6ecc8d4d0e4fb2f3df2402556222bf6a5b7dc
pkg dir len: 268
pkg dir exists: True
prepared.txt exists: False
error: Failed to run script prepare due to error ENOENT
exit: 1
```

Same second layout with this PR's build:

```
store entry: dep@git+file++++C++Users+AZUREU~1+AppData+Local+Temp+lc-repro-aaaaa+ef7ad81a431ad661
pkg dir len: 206
prepared.txt exists: True
exit: 0
```

</details>

<!-- robobun:evidence:begin -->

---

**no test proof** · iteration 1 · Platform-specific test(s) that do not
run on this machine. Deferring to CI, which covers all platforms:
test/cli/install/bun-install.test.ts
test/cli/install/isolated-install.test.ts

<!-- robobun:evidence:end -->

---

## 2. install: send credentials embedded in a tarball URL as Basic
authorization (from #39025)

#### Problem
- A dependency declared as a tarball URL with credentials, `"no-deps":
"http://carol:s3cret@127.0.0.1:PORT/cdn/no-deps-1.0.0.tgz"`, is
downloaded without an `Authorization` header. A server that needs the
credentials answers 401 and the install fails with `error: GET
http://carol:s3cret@127.0.0.1:PORT/cdn/no-deps-1.0.0.tgz - 401` (bun
1.4.0 and `main`, hoisted and isolated linker). npm 11 installs the same
package.json and sends `Authorization: Basic Y2Fyb2w6czNjcmV0`
(`base64("carol:s3cret")`).
- The username-only form (`http://token@127.0.0.1:PORT/x.tgz`) does not
reach the server at all: the request goes to the hostname
`token@127.0.0.1`.
- Cause: `NetworkTask::for_tarball` (`src/install/NetworkTask.rs`) only
ever attaches the registry scope's configured token or `_auth`, and only
for npm packages whose tarball is on the registry's origin. Nothing
reads the URL's userinfo, and the HTTP client does not either (it only
turns the userinfo of a proxy URL into `Proxy-Authorization`). The
misrouted username-only form comes from `bun_url::URL::parse`, which
takes `token@127.0.0.1` for the hostname when the userinfo has no `:`
and a port follows (tracked separately; this change no longer depends on
how that parser splits the authority).
- Found while fixing the isolated store names of these URLs (#39014),
not from a user report.

#### Fix
- `for_tarball` splits the userinfo off the request URL before anything
else looks at it (`split_url_userinfo`: the authority runs from `://` to
the first `/`, `?` or `#`, the userinfo is everything in it up to the
last `@`, so the `@` of `/@scope/pkg/-/pkg.tgz` is not one) and sends it
as `Authorization: Basic base64(userinfo)`
(`basic_authorization_from_userinfo`, which appends `:` when the
userinfo has no password). The request URL is the URL without the
userinfo.
- Precedence: when the registry scope's credentials apply to the tarball
(npm package, tarball on the registry origin, scope has a token or
`_auth`), they are still sent and the URL's are not. This is npm's order
as well: npm-registry-fetch sets the header from the config, and node
only derives `Authorization` from the URL's `auth` when the request has
no such header.
- Why Basic of the userinfo as written: it is what npm sends, checked
against npm 11.16 for `user:pass`, `user` (sent as `user:`), `:pass` and
a percent-encoded password (sent undecoded); transcript below. It is
also how bun already treats credentials written into a registry URL
(#38796 stores the username and password bytes as given). pnpm was not
available offline. Two spellings are deliberately not npm's: a second
`:` inside the password is sent as written where npm percent-encodes it,
and `:token@` in a tarball URL is Basic like npm rather than the Bearer
that bun's registry URLs make of it; both are called out in the test
table and in the code comment.
- Why the URL is requested without the userinfo: `bun_url::URL::origin`
includes the userinfo and the HTTP client compares origins to decide
whether `Authorization` follows a redirect, so with the userinfo left
in, a redirect to the same host would drop the header (verified: with
only the header added, the redirect test below fails with
`authorization: null` on the second hop). It also fixes the
username-only form without touching `bun_url`, and the `GET <url> - 401`
line now prints the URL without the credentials. The cross-host rule is
unchanged: the HTTP client strips the header on a redirect to another
origin, same as for the registry token (test included).
- Behavior outside the request is unchanged: `package.json`, the
lockfile, the task id and the cache key still use the URL as written.
Documented in `docs/pm/cli/add.mdx`.
- Verified with `test/cli/install/bun-install.test.ts`,
`describe("credentials embedded in a tarball URL")`: 12 tests, 10 of
which fail on the unfixed build (the two guards, scoped path and
registry credentials taking precedence, pass on both). The rest of the
file is unchanged: the remaining failures locally are the tests that
need the public internet, identical with the unmodified binary.
- `cargo check -p bun_install`, `cargo clippy -p bun_install`, rustfmt
and prettier are clean.

#### Background
- Tarball dependency: a `package.json` entry whose version is an
`http(s)://` URL ending in `.tgz`/`.tar.gz`/`.tar`. Bun downloads it
directly; no registry manifest is involved, so the registry's configured
credentials never applied to it (`Authorization::NoAuthorization` at the
call sites in `PackageManagerEnqueue.rs`). Registry packages reach the
same `for_tarball` through their manifest's `dist.tarball` URL with
`AllowAuthorization`, which is the case where the registry scope's
credentials can apply.
- Userinfo: the `user:password@` part of a URL's authority (RFC 3986
section 3.2.1). HTTP never puts it on the wire; clients that honor it
(npm through minipass-fetch, curl, browsers) convert it into
`Authorization: Basic base64(user:password)`.
- `NetworkTask::for_tarball` builds one HTTP request per tarball
download: `url_buf` (the request URL) and `header_buf` (the headers,
built with `HeaderBuilder` in two passes, `count` then `append`, because
the buffer is allocated exactly once in between). Retries reuse the same
request, so the header is sent on every attempt.
- `bun_url::URL::parse` is the allocation-free splitter the HTTP client
and `for_tarball` use; it is not a WHATWG parser. Its `origin` is a
prefix of the input string, which is why it still contains the userinfo.

<details>
<summary>npm 11.16 against a local server logging the Authorization
header (same tarball, same package.json shape)</summary>

```
userinfo in the dependency URL   header npm sent
carol:s3cret@                    Basic Y2Fyb2w6czNjcmV0      = base64("carol:s3cret")
carol@                           Basic Y2Fyb2w6              = base64("carol:")
:s3cret@                         Basic OnMzY3JldA==          = base64(":s3cret")
carol:s3%40cret@                 Basic Y2Fyb2w6czMlNDBjcmV0  = base64("carol:s3%40cret"), not decoded
carol:s3:cret@                   Basic Y2Fyb2w6czMlM0FjcmV0  = base64("carol:s3%3Acret"), bun sends base64("carol:s3:cret")
carol:s3cret@ + 302 to same host Basic ... on both hops
```

bun 1.4.0-canary.1 (eabb96d) for the first row: the server logs
`auth=null` and bun prints `error: GET
http://carol:s3cret@127.0.0.1:PORT/cdn/no-deps-1.0.0.tgz - 401`.
</details>

---

## 3. install: read `file:` tarballs relative to the `file:` folder
package that declares them (from #39017)

#### Problem

- A `file:` folder dependency whose own package.json declares a local
tarball fails to install (released 1.4.0 canary and main, both linkers):
project package.json `{"dependencies":{"lib":"file:./vendor/lib"}}`,
`vendor/lib/package.json` declaring `"tool": "file:./tool.tgz"`,
`vendor/lib/tool.tgz` present:
  ```
  error: ENOENT extracting tarball from tool
  error: tool@file:./tool.tgz failed to resolve
  ```
- The path is read as `<project>/tool.tgz`. If that file happens to
exist it is installed as `tool` instead of the folder's copy, with no
error. The directory form of the same declaration (`"tool":
"file:./tool"`) is already resolved relative to `vendor/lib`.
- Cause: `enqueue_local_tarball`
(`src/install/PackageManager/PackageManagerEnqueue.rs`) picks the
directory a local tarball path is relative to, and the only declarer it
looked at was a workspace (`get_workspace_pkg_if_workspace_dep`). Every
other declarer, including a `file:` folder package, fell through to the
top-level dir.
- The same choice was also wrong in the other direction: a root
`overrides` / `resolutions` entry or catalog entry pointing a dependency
at `file:./x.tgz` was read relative to the workspace when the dependency
it applied to was declared by a workspace member, so `overrides: { bar:
"file:./bar.tgz" }` with `bar.tgz` in the project root failed with the
same ENOENT as soon as a workspace depended on `bar`. This is #25835
(`overrides`) and #25752 (`catalogs`); both reproduce as reported on the
released build and install with this change. The directory form of an
override is already resolved relative to the project (`Folder` arm of
`get_or_put_resolved_package`).

Fixes #25835
Fixes #25752

#### Fix

- `enqueue_local_tarball` now takes the base directory from
`local_tarball_base_dir`: the directory of the declaring package when it
is a workspace or a `file:` folder package and that package's own
specifier is the tarball path being read; the top-level dir in every
other case.
- Why the declaring package: a path in a package.json means a file next
to that package.json, which is what npm does for `file:` and what bun
already does for workspace declarers and for the directory form. A
`file:` folder package is read from the project like a workspace is, and
its `Resolution::Folder` payload is its directory relative to the
top-level dir (`folder_resolver.rs`, `NewResolver { folder_path: rel
}`), the same shape as a workspace's `Resolution::Workspace` payload, so
both are joined the same way. The only other `Resolution::Folder`
packages are the stubs created for `file:` directories declared by
something other than the root or a workspace (`Folder` arm of
`get_or_put_resolved_package`); those carry no dependency list, so they
are never the declarer of an edge.
- Why the "own specifier" condition: `overrides`, `resolutions` and
catalogs are only parsed from the root package.json (`Package.rs`,
`FEATURES.is_main`), and applying one leaves the declaring package's
stored edge untouched (the replacement is local to
`enqueue_dependency_with_main_and_success_fn`). So when the stored
edge's specifier is not the path being read, the root wrote the path and
the top-level dir is the only directory it can mean. Without this
condition, root overrides applied to a folder-declared dependency, which
work today only because of the bug, would start being read from the
folder.
- Why it is decided from the edge and not from the resolve pass's
`version_was_replaced`: `enqueue_local_tarball` is also reached from
`enqueue_tarball_for_reading` when a project with a `bun.lock` is
installed into an empty cache. The lockfile row keeps the path as
declared (`"tool": ["bar@./tool.tgz", ...]` under `"lib": [..., {
"dependencies": { "tool": "file:./tool.tgz" } }]`), and the edge's
declarer and specifier are available there too, so both passes compute
the same directory. Lockfile format is unchanged and existing lockfiles
keep working; the path in the row is joined onto a different directory
only for declarers that previously failed or installed the wrong file.
- Declarers extracted from the cache (registry, git, tarball packages)
still fall through to the top-level dir, as before; #38986 is changing
what happens to those separately.
`Lockfile::get_parent_pkg_of_dependency` is the same helper that PR
adds.
- Left as is: the lockfile identity of a local tarball is still the path
as written (`bar@./tool.tgz`), so two project packages declaring the
same relative path to two different files still share one row and one
read, the limitation workspaces already have. A package.json inside a
folder dependency that worked around this bug by writing a
project-relative path (`file:./vendor/lib/tool.tgz`) will now need the
path relative to itself, which is what npm requires for it as well.
- Verified with `test/cli/install/bun-install.test.ts`, `describe("file:
tarball declared by a file: folder dependency")`: the folder's tarball
is installed with the hoisted and with the isolated linker, and a root
override supplying the path is read from the project. Each test plants a
different tarball at the other candidate path and runs a fresh install
followed by `--frozen-lockfile` into an emptied cache, so both the
resolve pass and the install from `bun.lock` have to read the right
file. `test/cli/install/bun-workspaces.test.ts`, `relative tarballs >
from a root override / catalog entry applied to a workspace dependency`,
covers #25835 and #25752 the same way. The four folder/workspace tests
install the wrong tarball without the `src/` change (checked against a
debug build of main and against the released build); the
override-on-folder test passes before and after and pins that case.
- Also run with this change: `bun-workspaces.test.ts` (74 pass),
`overrides.test.ts` + `nested-overrides.test.ts` (151 pass),
`bun-lock.test.ts` (40 pass), `bun-install.test.ts -t
"tarball|tgz|file:|folder|override|resolutions"` (51 pass; `should treat
non-GitHub http(s) URLs as tarballs` fails identically on the released
build, it needs network), `isolated-install.test.ts`, `bun-add.test.ts`
and `bun-install-registry.test.ts` filtered to tarball/file tests (all
pass). `cargo clippy -p bun_install` is clean.

#### Background

- A `file:` dependency on a directory is a `Tag::Folder` dependency; one
on a `.tgz` is a `Tag::Tarball` dependency with a local URI. The latter
resolves to `Resolution::LocalTarball(<path as written>)`; the path
string is both the task id for reading it and the package's identity in
`bun.lock`.
- bun reads the package.json of the root, of workspace members and of
`file:` folder dependencies from disk (`Package::parse`), and stores for
each of the latter two a `Resolution::Workspace` / `Resolution::Folder`
whose payload is the package directory relative to the top-level dir.
Packages from the registry, git or a tarball get their dependency lists
from the manifest or the extracted archive instead and have no directory
in the project while they resolve.
- Dependency edges live in one flat buffer and every package owns a
contiguous slice of it, which is how the package that declared an edge
is found. The edge stores the specifier as declared; overrides,
resolutions and catalogs replace it only for the duration of resolving
that edge.
- `enqueue_local_tarball` is called from two places: the `Tarball` arm
of the resolve pass (no lockfile row yet, the tarball is read to learn
the package's name and dependencies) and `enqueue_tarball_for_reading`
during install (a row exists in `bun.lock`, but the extracted package is
missing from the cache). It computes the on-disk path on the main thread
and hands it to a thread pool task, which only reads the file.

Closes #39025
Closes #39017

---------

Co-authored-by: Jarred Sumner <jarred@jarredsumner.com>
…s prepare scripts

A git or github dependency is installed straight from its checkout, so the
build tools its prepare scripts need (its devDependencies) exist nowhere in
the tree. With the package in trustedDependencies, bun ran the script anyway
and it failed with "command not found".

For a git/github dependency with a preprepare/prepare/postprepare script, the
lifecycle script runner now runs `bun install --ignore-scripts --no-save`
inside the package before the first of those scripts and deletes the
resulting node_modules once the scripts finish. A node_modules folder that
already exists in the package (conflicting versions bun nested there, or one
committed to the repository) is moved aside for the duration and restored
afterwards. The nested install gets the project's registry, token and cache
directory through the environment variables bun install reads. Untrusted
packages are unaffected: the scripts stay blocked and listed by
`bun pm untrusted`, and `bun pm trust` goes through the same runner.
…after interrupted runs

The set-aside directory now exists for the whole duration of the nested
install (an empty placeholder when the package had no node_modules), so a
run that finds it can tell an interrupted earlier run apart and keeps the
original instead of deleting it. The cleanup also runs when the nested
install or a script is killed by a signal or fails to spawn, and removes a
bun.lock that the nested install wrote while migrating the checkout's
package-lock.json, which --no-save does not prevent.

The isolated-linker test case is skipped on Windows: the store path of a
git dependency there is longer than MAX_PATH and every lifecycle script of
such a package fails to spawn, independently of this change.
…e length-checked paths

Also ties FIRST_PREPARE_INDEX to the script name table with a compile-time
assertion, does not export an empty BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR to the nested
install, trims the comments, and documents the exact nested command and the
restore step.
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Re-reviewed after the latest push — both earlier inline findings are addressed and this pass found nothing new. Given the scope (nested bun install spawn path, node_modules set-aside/restore across every exit arm, registry token forwarding), a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • handle_exit: remove_prepare_dependencies() now runs on the Exited-nonzero, Signaled, Err, and spawn_next_script-failure exits; the optional-dep arms delete the whole package dir so .bun-prepare-node_modules goes with it.
  • Tests: the two spawns that piped stdout without draining it now use stdout: "ignore"; remaining spawns drain all pipes concurrently.
  • set_aside_node_modules / NestedInstallCleanup::finish: interrupted-run recovery keeps the original and discards leftovers; ENOENT rename → placeholder mkdir; length-checked paths; failure to set aside warns and degrades to leaving deps in place.
  • put_install_config_for_prepare: BUN_CONFIG_TOKEN is only set alongside BUN_CONFIG_REGISTRY.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR makes bun install run a nested bun install --ignore-scripts --no-save inside a trusted git/github dependency's directory before its preprepare/prepare/postprepare scripts, so build tools from devDependencies are available (npm parity, issue #10297). The runner gains a PrepareDependencies state machine and NestedInstallCleanup that sets aside any pre-existing node_modules to .bun-prepare-node_modules, runs the nested install, runs the scripts, then removes the nested install's output and restores the original. Scripts.rs flags the case with install_dependencies_for_prepare and a FIRST_PREPARE_INDEX const with a compile-time assert. PackageManagerLifecycle.rs builds a second envp forwarding registry/token/cache-dir. Docs and a ~350-line test block (local git+file:// repo, Verdaccio, hoisted+isolated linkers, pm trust, failure messaging, interrupted-run recovery) are added.

Security risks

The nested install forwards BUN_CONFIG_REGISTRY and BUN_CONFIG_TOKEN from the parent's default scope into a subprocess whose cwd is the git checkout. The token is only ever set together with its own registry URL (guarded by did_override_default_scope || !scope.token.is_empty()), so it is not sent to a registry the checkout's own config might point at instead — but it is still the project's token going into an environment where the checkout's preprepare script runs afterward with the same envp the scripts already had (the install envp is separate). No new exposure beyond what running a trusted dependency's scripts already implies. The nested install runs with --ignore-scripts, so transitive-dep scripts don't execute. Path handling uses AutoAbsPathChecked and bun_sys wrappers; delete_tree targets are constructed from the package's own cwd (already validated as the install location) plus fixed literals, not attacker-controlled names.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is ~690 lines across the package manager's lifecycle-script runner — subprocess spawning with a refactored argv builder, filesystem rename/delete of node_modules trees on every exit path, and credential forwarding. It's cross-platform (Windows-gated isolated-linker skip, renameat semantics) and the failure-path matrix (non-zero exit × signal × spawn error × optional dep × interrupted prior run) is exactly the kind of thing that needs a maintainer's eyes. The known-limits list in the PR description (scoped registries not forwarded, files not applied, transitive scripts skipped) is a set of policy calls a maintainer should sign off on.

Other factors

Both inline findings from the earlier revision are now fixed in the code: every diverging arm of handle_exit and both spawn_next_script error sites route through remove_prepare_dependencies() (or, for optional deps, delete the whole package directory which subsumes it), and the two tests that piped stdout without draining now use stdout: "ignore". Test coverage is thorough and hermetic (local git repo + Verdaccio, no network), asserts stderr before exitCode, and uses .toEqual on combined-state objects. The bug-hunting pass on this revision reached a dry streak with no findings.

…olated-linker test on Windows

`bun_sys::mkdir` goes through libuv on Windows and fails with ENAMETOOLONG
past MAX_PATH; `mkdirat` takes the same long-path route as the `renameat`
next to it. With main bounding isolated store entry names, the isolated
linker case passes on Windows, so its skip is gone.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/install/lifecycle_script_runner.rs`:
- Around line 1346-1356: Update exit_after_spawn_failure to accept err as
crate::Error by value instead of by reference, then pass the Error value
directly at all three call sites while preserving the existing error reporting
and exit behavior.

In `@src/install/PackageManager/PackageManagerLifecycle.rs`:
- Around line 446-469: The put_install_config_for_prepare method must forward
the scoped registry configuration from PackageManagerOptions::registries to the
nested install, not only options.scope. Export the registry and token
environment settings for each configured scope using the format consumed by
scope_for_package_name, while preserving the existing default-scope and
cache-directory forwarding.

In `@test/cli/install/bun-install-lifecycle-scripts.test.ts`:
- Around line 2130-2131: Replace the for-loop parameterization around the
linker-specific test with describe.each() over the existing "hoisted" and
"isolated" values, preserving the test body and linker interpolation; update the
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Comment thread src/install/lifecycle_script_runner.rs Resolved

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Beyond the inline finding, I re-checked the two concerns from the earlier review: remove_prepare_dependencies() is now called on the Status::Signaled, Status::Err, and exit_after_spawn_failure paths (src/install/lifecycle_script_runner.rs:1135, 1165, 1355), and the two tests that piped stdout without draining it now use stdout: "ignore" — both are addressed.

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The latest push (8705a4e) switched mkdir to mkdirat for the placeholder and removed the Windows skip on the isolated-linker test; the commit message says main now bounds isolated store entry names so the MAX_PATH issue is gone. I verified the two earlier inline comments from this reviewer are resolved in code: cleanup now runs on every diverging arm of handle_exit and in exit_after_spawn_failure, and the tests that previously left a piped stdout undrained now spawn with stdout: "ignore" (or drain all three in Promise.all). Nothing further to add beyond the posted inline finding about the PR description vs. the now-unskipped isolated-linker test.

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Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

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CI status for 2736cba (build 107285, rebased onto current main): the new lifecycle tests pass on every lane, including the isolated-linker case on both Windows lanes. The build is red on three tests that this change does not touch and that are not in the install area: test/cli/run/require-cache.test.ts (Windows x64, leak check; also red on main), test/js/web/url/url.test.ts (macOS x64, Invalid URL; also red on main) and test/js/web/streams/compression.test.ts (Alpine x64, a backpressure pull-count assertion that landed on exactly the limit). Everything else that failed passed on retry. All three are reported to main-break triage; nothing is pending on this PR.

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

Not part of #44968: a nested install before prepare was turned down earlier; #10297 stays open.

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