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npm install fails when node_modules is a symlink #10013

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npm install fails when node_modules is a symlink#10013
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opened on Oct 17, 2015

Steps to reproduce:

cd `mktemp -d`
npm init --force
ln -s `mktemp -d` node_modules
npm install --save-dev typescript@1.7.0-dev.20151006
npm install --save-dev typescript@1.7.0-dev.20151014

Gives the following warning:

npm WARN update-linked node_modules/typescript needs updating to 1.7.0-dev.20151014 from 1.7.0-dev.20151006 but we can't, as it's a symlink

which should be an error because the install has not updated the installed version:

$ ./node_modules/.bin/tsc --version
message TS6029: Version 1.7.0-dev.20151006

Repeat the above but without a symlinked node_modules and it works just fine:

$ ./node_modules/.bin/tsc --version
message TS6029: Version 1.7.0-dev.20151014

Important details:

$ node --version
v4.2.0
$ npm --version
3.3.8

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