[robobun]

Problem

• In a project without dependencies, bun audit, bun outdated and 14 more print errors like error: missing lockfile, nothing to audit and note: run 'bun install' first, exit 1.
• bun install saves no lockfile there (save_lockfile, src/install/PackageManager/PackageManagerDirectories.rs:1299), so the note cannot be followed. Six load sites read a missing lockfile as "never installed".

Fix

• Reading commands load through PackageManager::load_lockfile_from_cwd_or_exit. With no lockfile, ScratchManifests::empty_lockfile reads the root package.json. Without dependencies and workspaces, the result is empty, exit 0.
• With no package to audit, bun audit sends no request.
• Verified: test/cli/install/bun-lock.test.ts (79 fail on main), six more files. Self-reviewed: 34 concerns raised, 32 addressed. Not done: a Windows UNC run, a temp-folder assumption.

Background

• bun install deletes a lockfile that holds only the root package (Lockfile::is_empty).
• Question: should the readers accept this state, or should bun install keep a root-only bun.lock, like npm and pnpm? Released Bun rejects that file in a frozen install.
• Also considered a check per command. Precedent: fix(install): allow installing without lockfile with --production #9923 (the state of Cannot use install --frozen-lockfile with package.json that has no dependencies #5162), pm: let bun pm -g bin / bun pm ls -g work before any global install #36622 through install: consolidate the open package manager pull requests #44968.

Downsides

• There, exit 1 becomes exit 0. bun prune removes, and bun update -r installs and runs root scripts.
• A workspaces field, a pnpm-workspace.yaml or a project above the folder keeps exit 1, by choice.
• Never installed with dependencies: +5 syscalls, about +44 allocations, +37,379 instructions before the same exit 1. Lockfile present: +0 syscalls and allocations. .text: +3,840 bytes at the previous head.

Notes

Source. An automated fuzz run found this. The tracker has no report of this symptom for the reading commands. #5162 (closed) reported the same state for a frozen install. The ordinary road into the state is bun remove of the last dependency, which prints package.json has no dependencies! Deleted empty lockfile. bun init writes devDependencies, so a new project is not in it.

The question: which side owns "nothing to lock"?

Readers (this PR):

• bun install stays as it is. Three deployment guides say: "Bun doesn't write a bun.lock for a project with no dependencies."
• It works before the first install, after bun remove of the last dependency, and in a checkout that a released Bun made.
• The readers decide from the root package.json alone. In two states they refuse where bun install saves no lockfile (second question below).
• bun audit and bun audit fix exit 0 without a lockfile. npm and pnpm refuse there. install: pnpm parity — dedupe, prune, pm licenses, audit fix, add --filter/--catalog, nested overrides, transitive update, and workspace fixes #38333 pinned that refusal for bun audit fix with a { "name": "foo" } fixture. This PR gives that fixture a dependency and adds the opposite case. That difference is deliberate, and it is part of the question.
• Precedent: since fix(install): allow installing without lockfile with --production #9923 a frozen install accepts a missing lockfile, which is the state of Cannot use install --frozen-lockfile with package.json that has no dependencies #5162. bun pm ls -g prints (0 installed) for a missing global lockfile (pm: let bun pm -g bin / bun pm ls -g work before any global install #36622, merged through install: consolidate the open package manager pull requests #44968).

Writer (bun install keeps a bun.lock with the root alone):

• Released Bun rejects that file. Run here on 1.2.0, 1.2.23, 1.3.0, 1.3.14, 1.4.0 and 1.4.3: bun install --frozen-lockfile beside it exits 1 with error: lockfile had changes, but lockfile is frozen, and bun install deletes it. With no lockfile the same frozen install exits 0. A project that shares the file with an older Bun in CI would fail there.
• It is what npm and pnpm do. Run here: npm 11.16.0 writes a package-lock.json with the root alone, and pnpm 10.34.7 writes a pnpm-lock.yaml with an empty importer. Before that file exists, npm audit and pnpm audit exit 1, and npm outdated and pnpm outdated exit 0.
• The readers need no change for it. On main bun outdated exits 0 beside that file.
• Main must accept the file in a frozen install first: bun ci exits 1 beside it today. install: save bun.lock, bun.lockb and yarn.lock in place when the lockfile is a mount point #45183 (open) has that hunk. install: save bun.lock, bun.lockb and yarn.lock in place when the lockfile is a mount point #45183 and this PR do not depend on each other, and a trial merge of the two is clean.
• It changes a documented default: the three guides, and the tests that pin No packages! Deleted empty lockfile.

If the writer side is chosen, commits 1 and 2 still apply and commit 3 can be dropped.

Second question: a workspaces field that matches nothing. bun install also saves no lockfile for a root whose workspaces field matches no folder, and next to a pnpm-workspace.yaml that names no workspace. The readers refuse both and print the old error with its note. The same two files describe a checkout whose workspaces are missing from disk, for example a Docker layer with only the root manifest. There a clean bun audit would be wrong, and bun prune would delete. Say so if the readers must accept these two states.

Commits. Each one type-checks alone.

1. All reading commands load through load_lockfile_from_cwd_or_exit. bun pm ls -g and bun update <pattern> have their own answer to a missing lockfile. They call the new load_lockfile_from_cwd_if_any, which returns NotFound and exits only if the lockfile does not load. PackageManager::load_lockfile_from_cwd is pub(crate) now, so a command in bun_runtime loads through one of these two. Lockfile::load_from_cwd and Lockfile::load_from_dir stay pub: bun pm diff loads into a lockfile that is not the manager's, so that a migration from yarn.lock fetches no manifest, and the testing binding loads from a directory. bun pm diff, bun pm migrate and bun <file>.lockb report a lockfile that does not load through the same LoadResultErr::report as the gate. No exit code changes in this commit.
2. bun audit sends no request when it collected no package.
3. The decision: ScratchManifests::empty_lockfile, the NotFound arm of the gate, and the same call in dedupe.rs, update_scope.rs and patchPackage.rs, which load the lockfile their own way.

The six sites on main. handle_load_lockfile_errors_for (src/runtime/cli/package_manager_command.rs:133), load_lockfile_from_cwd_or_exit (src/install/PackageManager.rs:1065), src/install/dedupe.rs:783, src/install/prune.rs:290, src/install/update_scope.rs:296, src/install/PackageManager/patchPackage.rs:473.

What "nothing to lock" means here. empty_lockfile answers yes if all of these hold.

• The root package.json parses, and its root is an object. [] and null keep the old error.
• It has no workspaces field, and no pnpm-workspace.yaml is next to it.
• ScratchManifests::parse_root finds no dependency row. This is the parse of bun install, so overrides and trustedDependencies add nothing, an optional peer in peerDependenciesMeta adds a row, and a dependencies field of the wrong type fails.

It reads nothing else. A patchedDependencies entry whose patch file is missing makes bun install exit 1, and the readers still report nothing installed. Main does the same beside a bun.lock without packages.

Two more states end the command with an error that can be followed:

• An empty package.json: error: failed to parse '<path>': file is empty and note: restore package.json, or write {} to start without dependencies. bun install prints the same next to a lockfile. Without a lockfile it reads the empty file as {}. The readers do not: the file may be one that a writer truncated, and bun prune would then delete every package.
• A folder below a project: error: missing lockfile and note: <path> has no dependencies, and a project is above it in <dir>. A project above is a folder whose package.json has dependencies or workspaces, or has a lockfile next to it (Lockfile::exists_in, which also knows the lockfiles of npm, Yarn and pnpm). The folder may belong to that project: src/ with { "type": "module" }, or a folder with a package.json of its own name that no workspace lists. A clean bun audit there would be about the wrong project, and a gate in CI would turn from fail to pass. A package.json above with nothing to lock and no lockfile next to it, such as a stray {} in the home directory, is no such project. -g skips this check.

Behavior changes to sign off. No flag guards them. Each exit code change is 1 to 0, in a state where the old exit 1 had no remedy.

• Exit 1 to 0 with an empty result: bun audit (also --json and fix), bun outdated, bun pm ls, bun list, bun pm hash, hash-string, hash-print, bun pm untrusted, bun prune, bun dedupe (also --check), bun update --interactive, bun update with --dev, --prod, --no-optional, --depth 0 or a pattern that only excludes, bun pm cache pack, bun pm scan, and bun pm licenses once node_modules exists.
• Still exit 1, with the message they print beside a bun.lock without packages: bun pm trust --all (0 scripts ran), bun why <pkg> (No packages matching), bun update <pattern> for a pattern that includes (no packages in bun.lock match), bun patch --commit <pkg> (package <pkg> not found).
• With -g, the rule needs the global package.json. It exists after the last bun remove -g and after a bun add -g that failed. Then bun outdated -g and bun pm hash -g exit 0. Before the first bun add -g there is no global package.json, and they exit 1 as on main. bun pm ls -g answers in both states, as on main.
• bun prune acts. After bun remove of the last dependency, the isolated linker leaves node_modules/.bun/<pkg>@<version>. Main refused to prune it. Packages that were put into node_modules by hand are removed too, as beside a bun.lock without packages.
• bun update --recursive and --filter run the install, as bare bun update does on main. They create node_modules and run the root lifecycle scripts. With --dry-run they do neither.
• bun pm cache pack writes a pack with 0 packages.
• bun audit sends no request in some projects that have a lockfile: a lockfile with the root alone, only workspaces, only file: dependencies, or only devDependencies with --prod. Main sent one empty request and exited 1 if the registry did not answer. A project whose packages all come from a scoped registry still sends the empty request to the default registry: that registry is the one whose failure ends the command.
• A lockfile that exists and does not load: bun pm ls (also -g), bun audit, bun why, bun pm hash, bun pm licenses, bun pm untrusted, bun pm trust, bun pm cache pack and bun pm scan print the cause before error: failed to parse lockfile, as bun outdated does. For a lockfile from a newer Bun that is Unsupported lockfile version and the bun upgrade note. Main printed the last line only. bun prune says failed to parse lockfile where it said failed to load lockfile. bun pm diff --silent prints nothing there, where it printed the parse error.
• Four tests used a project without dependencies as their "no lockfile" fixture. They now declare a dependency, and each has a new case for the project without dependencies. bun pm trust --all in a project without dependencies keeps its fixture and expects 0 scripts ran.

Left out.

• The two states of the second question.
• A project with dependencies and [install.lockfile] save = false: bun install saves no lockfile, and the note cannot be followed there either.
• bun outdated -g, bun audit -g and bun pm hash -g before the first bun add -g (above).
• The empty results of bun dedupe, bun pm licenses and bun update <pattern> name a bun.lock that does not exist.
• bun pm ls prints nothing for an empty tree, bun pm ls <name> exits 0 there, and bun pm licenses needs node_modules when the lockfile places nothing. All three are as on main, also beside a bun.lock. A separate change carries them.
• A project without dependencies below another project keeps exit 1, now with the note that names the project above. bun install treats that folder as a project of its own. One case: a home directory with its own package.json and bun.lock, and a project below it.
• bun pm migrate and bun <file>.lockb print what they print on main for a lockfile that does not load.

The folder below a project. A folder with its own package.json that no workspace lists is a project of its own for bun install. The first version of this PR gave the empty result there, except for a package.json with only module fields. A review on this PR showed the cost: bun audit in such a folder of a project with vulnerable dependencies exits 0 where main exits 1. The readers now refuse below every project with something to lock, whatever the package.json of the folder has.

Other open PRs.

• install: save bun.lock, bun.lockb and yarn.lock in place when the lockfile is a mount point #45183: see the first question.
• install: stop when a package.json above cannot say whether the folder is its workspace #45917 makes five states of a package.json above the folder an error. In those states a reader in a folder without dependencies exits 0 with this PR alone, and 1 once install: stop when a package.json above cannot say whether the folder is its workspace #45917 is in. install: stop when a package.json above cannot say whether the folder is its workspace #45917 adds the same Lockfile::exists_in and migration::OTHER_LOCKFILES that this PR adds. The PR that merges second drops its copy. install: stop when a package.json above cannot say whether the folder is its workspace #45917 conflicts with main in four other files today.
• Add bun pm sbom command #29512 (bun pm sbom) and Deduplicate package manager and CLI command helpers #32022 call PackageManager::load_lockfile_from_cwd from bun_runtime and exit on a missing lockfile. That function is pub(crate) now, so they move to the gate when they rebase.

Measured. Release builds of main 91e7e3b without and with this diff at its previous head 7acaa8e, linux-x64. The last change (the project above, exists_in) runs only where bun install would save no lockfile, so the lines for a lockfile that is present and for a project with dependencies hold. The size and the line for a project without dependencies are measured again and follow here. strace and valgrind are not on the machine. The tools are gdb (catch syscall, breakpoints on the mimalloc entry points) and a perf_event_open counter.

• The 14 commands of the report, before and after bun install: missing lockfile is printed 28 times on main, 0 times here.
• 28 commands, each with and without --silent, in six project states, debug builds of main 2d6d445 and of this head. Never installed with a dependency, a devDependency or a workspace, and a folder without package.json: 224 of 224 outputs are byte-identical. With a lockfile and one file: dependency: 50 of 56, and the 6 are bun audit without its request. With a lockfile that does not parse: 37 of 56, and the 19 are the cause that is now printed and bun pm diff --silent.
• File syscalls, bun pm hash and bun outdated. Lockfile present: 61 to 61 and 67 to 67, the same calls in the same order. Never installed, one file: dependency: 62 to 67 (one read of package.json: openat, fstat, two pread64, close). Workspace root with a member, no lockfile: 62 to 67, the same read and nothing for each member. Project without dependencies: 62 to 68 (the read and one access of pnpm-workspace.yaml).
• Allocations, two runs each. Lockfile present: bun pm hash 216 to 216, bun pm ls 222 to 222, bun prune --dry-run 283 to 283, bun outdated 253 to 253. Never installed with dependencies, bun pm hash: 180 and 173 to 221 and 221.
• User-mode instructions, ASLR off, median of 31 interleaved runs. Never installed with dependencies, bun pm hash: 640,353 to 677,732. Lockfile present: bun pm hash 683,132 to 684,632, bun pm ls 679,324 to 679,542, bun prune --dry-run 690,071 to 690,276. bun pm bin, which loads no lockfile and runs no changed line, shows the same step: 641,813 to 642,000. Two earlier builds of this branch with the same load path measured -46 to +3 for the three commands. So the step of about 200 instructions in 680,000 comes from how this build compiled code that all bun pm commands share, and the load adds nothing that this counter can show.
• size -A: .text 81,665,765 to 81,669,605, .rodata and .data +0. The stripped file grows by one page, 4,096 bytes. From the linker map: empty_lockfile is 2,801 bytes, package_json_above 557 bytes and load_lockfile_or_exit_if_broken 218 bytes, all new. load_lockfile_from_cwd_or_exit goes from 338 to 318 bytes. handle_load_lockfile_errors_for (290 bytes) becomes exit_on_lockfile_load_error (114 bytes).
• bun audit with nothing to audit: 0 requests (was 1) in six states, and exit 0 with the registry closed (was 1).
• bun pm diff <name> next to a yarn.lock: the same output on both builds, and no manifest request while the lockfile migrates.
• 17 manifests in bun-lock.test.ts: bun install saves no lockfile for 10 of them. On main bun outdated fails in all 10. Here it finds nothing in 6, prints the file is empty error in 1, and keeps the old error in 3: the 2 of the second question, and [].

Tests. Debug build with ASAN, linux-x64, main 2d6d445. 104 tests fail on main and pass here.

• bun-lock.test.ts: 450 tests. On main 79 fail: 70 in the new block no bun.lock in a project without dependencies, and 9 for a bun.lock that does not parse.
• bun-audit.test.ts 13, bun-prune.test.ts 4, bun-pm.test.ts 4, bun-install-registry.test.ts 2, bun-pm-scan.test.ts 1, bun-pm-cache-pack.test.ts 1.
• Also run and green: bun-pm-why, bun-pm-licenses, bun-pm-diff, bun-dedupe, bun-update, bun-update-transitive, bun-lockb, bun-add, bun-patch, bun-remove, bad-workspace, frozen-lockfile-outdated, the three update_interactive files, test/cli/run/run-autoinstall.test.ts, five files of test/cli/install/migration and test/regression/issue/24502.

Self-review. Three rounds, 34 concerns, 32 addressed.

• The first cut decided with the full install parse. It answered "nothing to lock" in four states where it could not know, and it read every workspace member before the same error. empty_lockfile now decides from the root package.json alone.
• The second round asked for the two errors that can be followed, for the rule by module fields in place of a rule by name, and for load_lockfile_from_cwd_if_any.
• The third round found that bun pm diff on that load fetched one manifest for each package of a yarn.lock. It has its own load again. It also found the [] manifest, the -g and pnpm-workspace.yaml cases of the module-fields note, and four false sentences in this text.
• A review on this PR asked for the rule by the project above, for one report of a lockfile that does not load, and for the contract of NotFound in the doc comment of the gate. All are in.
• Not done, 1: project_above passes over a path that cannot hold a file with the same test as find_project, which matters for a UNC path on Windows. No Windows machine was at hand to run it.
• Not done, 2: the new tests need a temp folder with no project above it, and bun pm cache pack outside a project needs one with no package.json above it. Other tests of the suite assume the same, for example bun pm scan without a package.json.

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Status

How to reproduce, on main and on 1.4.3:

mkdir app && cd app
printf '{"name":"app","version":"1.0.0"}' > package.json
bun install    # No packages! Deleted empty lockfile (exit 0, no bun.lock)
bun audit      # error: missing lockfile, nothing to audit
               # note: run 'bun install' first (exit 1, before and after bun install)

bun outdated, bun pm ls, bun pm hash, bun pm licenses, bun pm untrusted, bun why, bun prune and bun dedupe do the same. With this PR (#46116) they give the empty result and exit 0.

The PR asks a question first: should the commands that read the lockfile accept this state, or should bun install keep a bun.lock with the root alone? The body compares both.

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Walkthrough

Changes

The changes add empty-lockfile handling for eligible projects without dependencies or workspaces. Package-manager commands use shared loading behavior, audit returns empty results when no packages are available, and documentation and tests cover the resulting command behavior.

Lockfile behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Empty lockfile detection src/install/PackageManager.rs, src/install/PackageManager/workspace_manifests.rs, src/install/lockfile.rs, src/install/migration.rs, docs/pm/lockfile.mdx, test/cli/install/bun-lock.test.ts	The loader and ScratchManifests validate manifest and workspace context when a lockfile is missing. Tests cover lockfile creation rules, ancestor discovery, and malformed manifests.
Install and prune operations src/install/PackageManager/patchPackage.rs, src/install/PackageManager/updatePackageJSONAndInstall.rs, src/install/dedupe.rs, src/install/update_scope.rs, src/install/prune.rs, docs/pm/cli/dedupe.mdx, docs/pm/cli/prune.mdx, test/cli/install/bun-lock.test.ts, test/cli/install/bun-prune.test.ts, test/cli/install/bun-pm-cache-pack.test.ts	Install, dedupe, update, patch, and prune paths use empty lockfiles when the project qualifies. Tests cover empty projects, cache packing, pruning, and refusal cases.
CLI lockfile consumers src/runtime/cli/*, src/runtime/lib.rs, docs/pm/cli/pm.mdx, test/cli/install/bun-install-registry.test.ts, test/cli/install/bun-pm-scan.test.ts, test/cli/install/bun-pm.test.ts	CLI commands use shared lockfile-loading and error-handling paths. Tests cover missing and malformed lockfiles, global commands, outdated, trust, scan, hash, and cache behavior.
Audit empty results src/runtime/cli/audit_command.rs, docs/pm/cli/audit.mdx, test/cli/install/bun-audit.test.ts	Audit returns no package requests when no auditable packages exist and produces an empty response when no response body is available. Tests cover empty projects, registry selection, subdirectories, and alternate lockfiles.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Priority: ➖ Normal

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 49d1c

In an eligible empty project, bun pm ls missing-package can report success despite finding no match. This is a bounded CLI issue; the documentation concern is resolved.

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Review comments at @docs/pm/cli/audit.mdx:
- Line 14: Update the `bun audit` documentation to state that it sends no
request and reports no vulnerabilities when a dependency-free project has no
lockfile; do not imply that every dependency-free project lacks a lockfile.

Review comments at @src/install/PackageManager.rs:
- Around line 1101-1123: Update the documentation on
load_lockfile_from_cwd_or_exit to state that when the root package.json has
nothing to lock, it sets self.lockfile to a root-only lockfile and returns
NotFound; clarify that callers must handle NotFound before calling ok or ok_mut.

Review comments at @src/runtime/cli/package_manager_command.rs:
- Around line 133-144: Update exit_on_lockfile_load_error to accept the
corresponding loader log and use LoadResultErr::report for diagnostics before
exiting; pass the loader log from print_hash, migrate, and pm_diff_command, and
remove pm_diff_command’s separate log print to avoid duplicate reporting while
preserving unsupported-lockfile-version handling.

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update the top-level test named “the default registry is still asked when every
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• docs/pm/cli/audit.mdx
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• src/install/PackageManager.rs
• src/install/PackageManager/patchPackage.rs
• src/install/PackageManager/updatePackageJSONAndInstall.rs
• src/install/PackageManager/workspace_manifests.rs
• src/install/dedupe.rs
• src/install/lockfile.rs
• src/install/prune.rs
• src/install/update_scope.rs
• src/runtime/cli/audit_command.rs
• src/runtime/cli/outdated_command.rs
• src/runtime/cli/package_manager_command.rs
• src/runtime/cli/pm_diff_command.rs
• src/runtime/cli/pm_licenses_command.rs
• src/runtime/cli/pm_trusted_command.rs
• src/runtime/cli/scan_command.rs
• src/runtime/cli/update_interactive_command.rs
• src/runtime/cli/why_command.rs
• src/runtime/lib.rs
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• test/cli/install/bun-pm-cache-pack.test.ts
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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked two paths that the synthesized root-only lockfile reaches: bun prune with no bun.lock and no declared dependencies now removes everything in node_modules, and bun update -r there runs an install with root lifecycle scripts — both are the documented exit-1-to-exit-0 downsides in the description, not regressions in the implementation. The bun audit short-circuit in collect_packages_for_audit only skips the registry request when by_name is empty, and merge_bulk_bodies returns {} only in that same no-request case, so a reachable registry still sees every real package.

Extended reasoning...

The change centralizes lockfile loading for 16 reading commands in src/install/PackageManager.rs and adds ScratchManifests::empty_lockfile in src/install/PackageManager/workspace_manifests.rs, which synthesizes a root-only lockfile when the root package.json has no dependencies or workspaces. It touches no auth, crypto or injection surface; the sensitive effect is the exit-code change from 1 to 0 for prune and update, which the author lists as deliberate. Two inline findings remain about picking up the wrong project from a subfolder and bun pm ls <name> output, and the author poses an open design question about whether readers or bun install should own this state, so a human maintainer decision is needed.

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🟡 Minor · Report an unmatched package name in an empty project. · package_manager_command.rs:593

src/runtime/cli/package_manager_command.rs:593
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Report an unmatched package name in an empty project.

When pm ls missing-package loads an eligible project without a lockfile, the root-only lockfile produces no directories. The existing early return at Line 671 then exits 0 before the name-match check at Line 743. Make the empty-directory path report “no packages match” when names is nonempty. The empty-project test confirms the no-directory result; named searches in populated projects already exit 1 on no match. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @src/runtime/cli/package_manager_command.rs at line 593:
Update the empty-directory early-return path in the package-listing flow to
check whether names is nonempty; for a named search, report “no packages match”
and exit with failure instead of returning success, while preserving the
existing successful empty result for unnamed listings. Use the surrounding pm
load_lockfile_from_cwd_or_exit and name-match logic to locate the change.

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Review comments at @src/runtime/cli/package_manager_command.rs:
- Line 593: Update the empty-directory early-return path in the package-listing
flow to check whether names is nonempty; for a named search, report “no packages
match” and exit with failure instead of returning success, while preserving the
existing successful empty result for unnamed listings. Use the surrounding pm
load_lockfile_from_cwd_or_exit and name-match logic to locate the change.

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• docs/pm/cli/audit.mdx
• docs/pm/lockfile.mdx
• src/install/PackageManager.rs
• src/install/PackageManager/workspace_manifests.rs
• src/install/lockfile.rs
• src/install/migration.rs
• src/runtime/cli/package_manager_command.rs
• src/runtime/cli/pm_diff_command.rs
• test/cli/install/bun-audit.test.ts
• test/cli/install/bun-lock.test.ts
• test/cli/install/bun-prune.test.ts

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On the review comment about bun pm ls <name> in a project with nothing installed (exit 0, no output): that early return is as on main beside a bun.lock with "packages": {}. The description lists it under "Left out". A separate change carries bun pm ls for an empty tree (the header, and exit 1 for a name without a match) together with the node_modules requirement of bun pm licenses, so this PR does not change that arm.