install: import pnpm-workspace.yaml even without a migratable pnpm-lock.yaml

[robobun]

Problem

• In a pnpm monorepo whose pnpm-lock.yaml is not present (never committed, or rm'd as the isolated-installs docs told people to do) or is a pnpm 8 lockfile (lockfileVersion: '6.0', which bun does not migrate), bun install prints No packages! Deleted empty lockfile, exits 0, and installs the root as a single package: no workspace is linked, catalog: references never resolve, and the yaml overrides: / patchedDependencies: are not applied.
• Cause: pnpm-workspace.yaml is only read by update_package_json_after_migration (src/install/pnpm.rs), which migrate_pnpm_lockfile calls after it has successfully converted a pnpm-lock.yaml. Every other path resolves the root package.json as-is, and that file has no workspaces field in a pnpm repo.
• Same shared function, found while extending it: the yaml was parsed into a block-local Arena that is destroyed at the end of the block, and the catalog / overrides / patchedDependencies objects taken from that tree were printed into package.json afterwards. Quoted and block yaml scalars ('@scope/pkg': '^1.0.0') are stored in that arena, so they were read after free. ASAN reports it as use-after-poison in bun_js_printer::write_pre_quoted_string_inner under print_json when the freed pages are not reused first.

Fix

• pnpm::migrate_pnpm_workspace_config (new): when pnpm-workspace.yaml exists and the root package.json has no workspaces field, run the existing update_package_json_after_migration with an empty patch map. create_new_lockfile_and_enqueue calls it right before it parses the root package.json, and only when no lockfile was loaded (LoadResult::NotFound or Err, which covers the too-old lockfile; a loaded bun.lock or a migrated lockfile is left authoritative, and a migrated pnpm-lock.yaml already ran the import). The workspaces guard is what makes a second install, and a repo that maintains package.json for bun by hand, a no-op.
• The import is the same one the lockfile migration performs, so the output and the moved ... in package.json notice are identical on both paths. The only difference is that bare name keys in patchedDependencies stay bare, since the version they resolve to is only known from a lockfile.
• update_package_json_after_migration now parses the yaml into its function-scoped bump arena (the fix for the read-after-free: the tree must outlive the print_json at the end of the function), and after printing re-parses the result into the cache entry with the existing print_package_json_into_cache_entry + reparse_root idiom, so the entry owns what it points at instead of referencing nodes in the thread-local AST store that the next initialize_store() resets. The three root package.json lookups in the file share a new root_package_json helper.
• update_package_json_and_install_with_manager (bun remove / bun unlink / bun patch --commit) writes back the cache entry instead of the text it printed before the install. Previously bun remove as the first bun command in a pnpm repo threw away the workspaces the migration had just written; this was already true on the lockfile path.
• bun patch --commit now loads the lockfile (do_patch_commit) before this function reads the cwd package.json entry, next to where it already loads it for bun update -r. With no bun.lock that load migrates pnpm-lock.yaml, which rewrites the root entry (and, for a monorepo, inserts the workspace package.jsons into the cache map), so an entry pointer or Expr taken earlier was stale: store-allocated nodes reset inside do_patch_commit before this PR, the re-parsed tree's old arena with it. Found in review.
• A failed write of the rewritten package.json (read-only file, full disk) now prints the error and exits 1, like a failed bun.lock save. Both entry points used to continue from the in-memory copy and save a bun.lock that did not match the package.json on disk.
• Docs: docs/pm/cli/install.mdx states when the yaml import happens; docs/pm/isolated-installs.mdx no longer tells pnpm users to delete pnpm-lock.yaml before their first bun install.
• Verified: test/cli/install/migration/pnpm-lock-migration.test.ts, new describe block (10 tests, offline, workspace-only). With src/ stashed, 5 of them fail with the symptom above (No packages! Deleted empty lockfile), the bun remove one additionally fails without the write-back change, and the two cannot be written back cases (0444 package.json; skipped as root and on Windows, run here as an unprivileged user) fail without the write-error change. With only the arena line reverted, the catalog test fails under ASAN with the use-after-poison above. The remaining ones pin the negative contract (declared workspaces or an existing bun.lock win) and the lockfile path with quoted scalars.
• test/cli/install/migration/pnpm-lock-v9.test.ts gains the bun patch --commit case above (needs the verdaccio fixture registry). It fails on the base commit, fails on the previous head of this PR with AddressSanitizer: use-after-poison on the root object's property list in update_package_json_and_install_with_manager_with_updates, and passes now with both workspaces and patchedDependencies in the final package.json.
• Also run: test/cli/install/migration/pnpm-migration.test.ts, pnpm-lock-v9.test.ts (80 pass), bun-remove.test.ts, bun-patch.test.ts, bun-link.test.ts (one pre-existing debug-only failure in bun-link, which expects release output on an install failure).

Background

• bun install has no notion of pnpm-workspace.yaml at resolve time. Migration from pnpm works by rewriting the root package.json once (yaml packages/catalog/catalogs become the workspaces field, yaml and pnpm.* overrides and patches become the top-level fields) and then letting the normal install read package.json. The migration only runs while bun.lock does not exist, which is the rule this change keeps.
• LoadResult is what Lockfile::load_from_cwd returns: Ok with a bun.lock/bun.lockb or a lockfile migrated from npm/yarn/pnpm, NotFound, or Err (unreadable, or a migration that failed, such as a pnpm 8 lockfile). install_with_manager builds a fresh lockfile from package.json in the last two cases, which is where the import now runs.
• workspace_package_json_cache holds each parsed package.json (MapEntry: source text plus an AST cloned into an arena the entry owns). The install flow, and the add/remove write-back after it, read the root entry again later, so an editor has to leave root == parse(source) with entry-owned memory; print_package_json_into_cache_entry + reparse_root is how the other editors in PackageManager/ do that.

Manual runs against the debug build

Repro from the report (no lockfile):

$ bun install
moved pnpm-workspace.yaml to workspaces in package.json
Saved lockfile
Checked 4 installs across 3 packages (no changes)
$ ls -l packages/b/node_modules/@w/a
packages/b/node_modules/@w/a -> ../../../a
$ bun install          # second run: silent, package.json untouched

pnpm 8 lockfile present:

warn: pnpm-lock.yaml is lockfileVersion 6.0, which bun cannot migrate; resolving from package.json instead
note: pnpm install --lockfile-only
moved pnpm-workspace.yaml to workspaces in package.json

Unchanged: package.json already has workspaces; bun.lock exists; a yaml with only namedRegistries: (nothing to move, no message, file not rewritten).

An unrelated pre-existing bug seen while probing (a root file: dependency on a workspace folder produces a bun.lock with a duplicate packages key on the second install) is already tracked separately; the tests here avoid that layout.

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no test proof · iteration 0 · Platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine. Deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/cli/install/migration/pnpm-lock-migration.test.ts

[robobun]

^{Updated 9:05 PM PT - Aug 14th, 2026}

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[robobun]

Status: fixed, ready for review.

Reproduced with the released build (bun install in a repo with pnpm-workspace.yaml, two workspace packages and no lockfile prints No packages! Deleted empty lockfile and links nothing), and again with lockfileVersion: '6.0' in pnpm-lock.yaml. Covered by the new block in test/cli/install/migration/pnpm-lock-migration.test.ts plus the bun patch --commit case in pnpm-lock-v9.test.ts; all fail on the unfixed build and pass on this branch.

CI on c8f7a0c is green for this diff on every lane. The only red test, test/js/node/test/parallel/test-http-chunk-problem.js, also fails on main and is tracked separately.

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

Changes

pnpm workspace configuration now migrates into package.json when no bun.lock exists. The installer persists migrated data after installation. Tests and documentation cover lockfiles, workspaces, catalogs, overrides, and fallback behavior.

pnpm Workspace Migration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Workspace migration implementation src/install/pnpm.rs	The migration loads the root package, imports workspace configuration, preserves AST-backed data, and reparses updated JSON before writing it.
Install and cache integration src/install/PackageManager/install_with_manager.rs, src/install/PackageManager/updatePackageJSONAndInstall.rs	The installer invokes migration when no lockfile was loaded and writes the current post-install cache contents.
Migration scenarios and documentation test/cli/install/migration/pnpm-lock-migration.test.ts, docs/pm/...	Tests cover migration and skip conditions. Documentation describes lockfile conversion and fallback behavior.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#35461: Both changes modify pnpm migration logic, but this PR handles workspace configuration while that PR handles relative link: dependencies.
• oven-sh/bun#38333: Both changes modify pnpm migration and install-flow behavior, including workspace configuration handling.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

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In `@docs/pm/isolated-installs.mdx`:
- Line 217: Update the pnpm migration documentation to state that Bun skips
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[robobun]

Review round-up (e4baa59, 03f8b08):

• Write failure (pnpm.rs): taken. A failed write of the rewritten package.json now prints the error and exits 1 instead of continuing from the in-memory copy, matching how a failed bun.lock save is handled. Output is e.g. EACCES: Permission denied: failed to move pnpm-workspace.yaml to workspaces in package.json (open); nothing else is written (no bun.lock). This also changes the pre-existing lockfile-migration path, which used to continue silently. Covered by the two new cannot be written back cases (0444 package.json, skipped as root and on Windows, same as the existing unwritable-target test in bun-add-filter.test.ts); verified here as an unprivileged user, and the --silent variant still prints the error.
• Docs (isolated-installs.mdx): taken, the sentence now names the conditions (no bun.lock yet, no workspaces field) and links to the full list.
• The walkthrough's "can lose patch metadata after bun patch --commit" has no mechanism attached; I traced it and do not see one. The write-back change only affects which bytes are written: for patch --commit the path is still the root package.json, and the root entry's source.contents is exactly what the old code wrote in both the run-from-root and run-from-workspace cases (edit_patched_dependencies edits the cached root object in place, so even an import running in the same command prints the patch entry too). bun-patch.test.ts and bun-remove.test.ts pass on this branch. Happy to look again if someone has a concrete sequence.
• comment-cop: every added comment is one line now; the stale threads are resolved (its auto-resolve fails on this repo's token, already tracked separately).

Only CI failure so far is test/js/node/test/parallel/test-http-chunk-problem.js, which also fails on main and is reported there.

[robobun]

Round 2 (c8f7a0c): the review finding on reparse_root was real. bun patch --commit called do_patch_commit (which loads, and here migrates, the lockfile) after it had already taken the cwd package.json entry and its Expr; the migration's rewrite of that entry left both stale. The load now happens before the entry is read, in the same spot this function already loads the lockfile for bun update -r. New test in pnpm-lock-v9.test.ts (patchedDependencies block) reproduces it: fails on the base commit, fails on the previous head with an ASAN use-after-poison, passes now with both the migrated workspaces and the new patchedDependencies in package.json. PR body updated; all review threads are resolved. CI for c8f7a0c is running.

[robobun]

Heads-up on overlap: #38775 (keep the pnpm block in package.json during the migration, copy instead of move) also switches the tail of update_package_json_after_migration to print_package_json_into_cache_entry + reparse_root, for the same reason as the third bullet here. The rest of the two changes is disjoint. Whichever lands second needs a small rebase of that tail, and if #38775 goes first the moved ... in package.json strings in this PR's new tests become copied ....

[claude]

The use-after-free I flagged on the earlier revision is addressed in c8f7a0c — do_patch_commit now runs (and its migration reparses the cache entry) before current_package_json_root is captured, and the new bun patch --commit case in pnpm-lock-v9.test.ts exercises exactly that sequence. No new issues found this pass. Given this reworks the install/add/remove/patch write-back path and the cache-entry arena ownership, a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• PatchCommitResult fields are owned Box<[u8]>, so the narrowed pathbuf scope in the hoisted do_patch_commit block leaves no dangling slice.
• The write-back at the end of update_package_json_and_install_with_manager_with_updates now re-fetches the cache entry, so a mid-install reparse_root (from migrate_pnpm_workspace_config) cannot be observed through a stale Expr.
• moved is non-empty on every path that sets needs_update, so the new write-failure message always names what was being moved.
• The new root_package_json helper preserves guess_indentation: true, matching the lookups it replaced.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR makes bun install import pnpm-workspace.yaml into the root package.json when no lockfile could be loaded/migrated, fixes a pre-existing arena-lifetime bug in update_package_json_after_migration (yaml parsed into a block-local arena that dropped before print_json), routes the migration's package.json edit through print_package_json_into_cache_entry + reparse_root so the cache entry owns its tree, and changes the bun remove/unlink/patch --commit write-back to read from the cache entry instead of a pre-install snapshot. It also makes a failed package.json write fatal on both migration paths, and updates two docs pages.

Prior finding addressed

My earlier review flagged that adding reparse_root to update_package_json_after_migration freed the arena current_package_json_root still pointed into when do_patch_commit ran mid-function. Commit c8f7a0c hoists do_patch_commit above the cache-entry read, so the migration's reparse happens before any Expr handle is copied out; the accompanying test in pnpm-lock-v9.test.ts sets up a repo where --commit is the first migrating command and asserts both the workspace import and the patch entry survive.

Security risks

None identified. The change reads a project-local pnpm-workspace.yaml and rewrites the project-local package.json; no network, auth, or path-traversal surface is added.

Level of scrutiny

High. This touches the core install flow (create_new_lockfile_and_enqueue), the add/remove/patch write-back path, and arena ownership of a cached AST that multiple later stages read. The change is well-tested (10 new offline tests plus the patch-commit case), and prior review feedback (coderabbit's write-failure propagation, comment-cop, my UAF) has been addressed, but the interaction between do_patch_commit's own load_from_cwd and install_with_manager's second load_from_cwd (both of which now run the migration on the patch-commit path) is subtle enough that a maintainer should confirm the double-migration is acceptable.

Other factors

CI for c8f7a0c was still building at review time. All prior inline threads are resolved.

[robobun]

On the double migration noted above: that is pre-existing and unchanged in count. do_patch_commit has always done its own load_from_cwd and install_with_manager its own, so a patch --commit with no bun.lock migrated twice before this PR as well; the hoist only moves the first load earlier in the function. The second pass is a no-op on package.json apart from printing the moved ... line again, and it only happens in the bun.lock-deleted-after-bun patch scenario the new test sets up.

CI for c8f7a0c: the one red test is test/js/node/test/parallel/test-http-chunk-problem.js, which fails on main on every Linux lane and is reported separately; everything else that showed up is yellow (passed on retry) and unrelated to install. The new tests in pnpm-lock-migration.test.ts and pnpm-lock-v9.test.ts passed on every lane, including x64-asan, macOS and Windows.