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Problem

  • bun.lock resolves wrong version for dependencies of packages with bundledDependencies #29263 (repro-uses-bundled depends on is-number@^7 and bundles repro-bundled, which needs is-number@^3; bun.lock ends up with repro-uses-bundled/is-number = 3.0.0, and bun why shows is-number@7.0.0 with no dependents). Fixes bun.lock resolves wrong version for dependencies of packages with bundledDependencies #29263.
  • A package that bundles a dependency gets the wrong version of one of its own dependencies on every install that starts from bun.lock (second bun install, --frozen-lockfile, fresh clone), hoisted and isolated alike. The install that wrote the lockfile is correct, so nothing warns.
  • Shape: host depends on shared@1 (hoisted to the root) and bundles inner, which depends on shared@2. The fresh install writes "host/shared": shared@2.0.0. Loading that lockfile resolves host's own shared edge by walking up the saved paths, finds host/shared first, and binds host to shared@2, outside its declared range. --frozen-lockfile then exits 0 and installs node_modules/host/node_modules/shared@2.0.0 (isolated: links host's store entry against shared@2.0.0).
  • Cause: Tree::hoist_dependency (src/install/lockfile/Tree.rs) stops walking up at the bundle's hoist root (the bundling package's node_modules tree) and places the dependency there unconditionally. That folder is also the one the bundling package itself, and any regular dependency nested inside it, resolve through on their way up, and nothing checked what they resolve the name to.
  • The same happens through an optional peer inside the bundle that is bound late (ResolveReplace triggers the re-hoist in Lockfile::resolve, and the second pass takes the same placement path), and when the edge being shadowed belongs to a regular dependency nested under the bundling package rather than to the package itself.
  • Without bundledDependencies the walk continues to the root, finds the conflicting version there and nests the dependency next to its dependent, which is why only bundles are affected.

Fix

  • Before placing at a bundle's hoist root, Tree::hoist_root_resolves_elsewhere looks at the edges for that name belonging to the bundling package and to the regular (non-bundled) dependencies nested in its node_modules, and theirs, and so on. If any of them resolves to a different package (or is unresolved), the placement is treated like any other conflict: DependencyLoop, so the dependency nests next to the package that depends on it (host/inner/shared).
  • Placing the same package again stays allowed, so bundles that repeat a root-level package (the usual npm/fsevents@1 shape, covered by the existing npm-1/debug-1 test and the arborist migration fixtures) keep their current lockfile shape. Packages placed at the hoist root from inside the bundle are deliberately not consulted: their walks stop at the hoist root, so they never resolve past it, and consulting them would move valid placements in real bundles (visible as churn in the audit-omit/audit-fix-old-tap migration snapshots with a cruder check).
  • An unbound optional peer is still placed at the hoist root: it writes nothing to the lockfile, and if it gets bound during the pass, Lockfile::resolve hoists again with the binding known and the bound package goes through the check.
  • Filter-mode hoisting (what the hoisted installer lays out) never has hoist roots, since bundled edges are filtered out there, so only the saved tree changes.
  • Verified: test/cli/install/bun-lock.test.ts, four new tests (host's own edge, same under the isolated linker, an edge of a dependency nested under the host, and the late-bound optional peer variant) on new bundled-shadow-* fixtures generated by registry/packages/create-bundled-shadow-packages.ts. All four fail on the released binary ("host/shared": shared@2.0.0 in bun.lock, shared@2.0.0 linked/installed into host on reinstall) and pass with this change.
  • Also run: the rest of bun-lock.test.ts (snapshots unchanged), bun-lockb, lockfile-version-2, lockfile-only, frozen-lockfile-pruned, hoist, migration/migrate.test.ts (arborist snapshots unchanged), migration/pnpm-lock-v9, the bundledDependencies block of bun-install-registry.test.ts, and the bundled tests in bun-audit, bun-dedupe, bun-pm-licenses, bun-prune, bun-update-transitive.

Background

  • bun.lock stores packages keyed by their position in a hoisted tree (a/b means b installed in a's node_modules). Dependency edges are not stored; when the lockfile is loaded, each edge is resolved by walking up from the dependent's key (a/b/x, then a/x, then x) and taking the first hit, like Node's own resolution. The saved tree is therefore only correct if every package's edges resolve to the right entry along that walk.
  • The tree is built by Tree::process_subtree/hoist_dependency (BuilderMethod::Resolvable for the tree that gets saved). Each dependency walks up from its dependent's node_modules looking for an entry with the same name: same package means dedupe, a different package means nest next to the dependent, no entry anywhere means place at the top of the walk.
  • A bundled dependency (bundledDependencies in the bundling package's manifest) ships inside the bundling package's tarball. Bun still resolves it and its dependencies so they appear in the lockfile, but they are placed in their own scope: the bundling package's node_modules becomes a hoist root (FillItem::hoist_root_id) that their walks stop at, which is the placement this change guards. The installer never lays these entries out itself (is_filtered_dependency_or_workspace drops bundled edges); the tarball contents are what gets installed.
  • An unbound optional peer is a dependency edge with no resolution yet; hoisting binds it to whatever same-named entry its walk finds (Resolve), or a later walk binds it when it hits the unbound slot (ResolveReplace). The latter sets late_bound_optional_peer, and Lockfile::resolve rebuilds the tree until a pass binds nothing new, so that a fresh install builds the same tree as a reload, where every binding is known up front.
Why the entry classification in hoist_root_resolves_elsewhere is exact
  • The packages whose walks pass through the hoist root (rather than stop at it) are the bundling package and the packages placed by walks that carry its scope: its own regular dependencies nested in its node_modules, their own dependencies nested in theirs, and so on. Everything else placed under the hoist root got there from a walk bounded at the hoist root (the bundled dependencies themselves, and what hoists up from inside the bundle), and their subtrees inherit that bound (FillItem::hoist_root_id), so nothing below them resolves past it either.
  • The only code that adds an entry to a tree is the Placement arm of process_subtree, and a placement lands either at the dependent's own node_modules (dependency id inside the dependent's range), at the root, or at the walk's hoist root (dependency id of a package inside the bundle, so outside the owner's range). So resolution_lists[owner].contains(dep_id) && !bundled picks out exactly the first group, for any edge kind: peer edges take the same walk and either dedupe (no entry) or nest at the dependent.
  • The tree of a placed package is created with the same dependency id as its entry (FillItem::dependency_id), which is what the descendant scan keys on. Trees are appended after their parents, so one pass in id order sees a parent before its children; the scan cannot stop early because unrelated trees are interleaved (breadth-first).
  • ResolveReplace is the one thing that rewrites an entry in place (it swaps in the dependency id of the walk that bound the peer, possibly a package from outside the bundle). It also sets late_bound_optional_peer, so Lockfile::resolve runs another pass in which that peer is bound up front and placed by its own walk like any other edge; the tree of a pass that did a ResolveReplace is never the one kept.
  • A tree whose owner hoisted everything away is popped, which is why the scan looks at entries (packages) rather than at trees' owners: a nested package with no tree still has edges that resolve through the hoist root.
  • Edges that are unresolved (unbound optional peers, unresolvable optional dependencies) count as resolving elsewhere: a loaded lockfile would bind them to whatever is placed at the hoist root, which the fresh install did not, so placing there would make the two disagree.

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/bun-lock.test.ts

…e resolves through

The dependencies of a bundled dependency hoist no further than the bundling
package's node_modules. hoist_dependency placed them there without looking at
what that folder is already used for: the bundling package itself, and the
regular dependencies nested inside it, resolve their own edges up through the
same folder, and a loaded bun.lock rebinds those edges by walking up the saved
paths. So when the bundle's copy was a different version than the one those
edges resolve to above, the lockfile written by a fresh install rebound them
to the bundle's copy on every later install.

Before placing at a bundle's hoist root, check the edges of the bundling
package and of the regular dependencies nested under it for the same name; if
one of them resolves to a different package (or is unresolved), nest the
dependency next to its dependent instead, as for any other conflict. Placing
the same package again stays allowed, so bundles that merely repeat a root
package keep their shape.
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The lockfile hoister now detects bundled dependencies that would shadow non-bundled resolutions. New registry fixtures and install tests cover hoisted, isolated, nested, optional-peer, frozen, and lockfile-only scenarios.

Bundled dependency resolution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Hoist resolution guard
src/install/lockfile/Tree.rs
hoist_dependency checks root and descendant scopes before placing bundled dependencies and returns DependencyLoop for conflicting resolutions.
Bundled shadow fixture packages
test/cli/install/registry/packages/*
The fixture generator and registry metadata define bundled, nested, consumer, wrapper, and optional-peer package scenarios.
Linker and reinstall regression tests
test/cli/install/bun-lock.test.ts
Tests validate stable dependency bindings across hoisted and isolated installs, frozen reinstalls, repeated installs, and lockfile-only serialization.

Possibly related issues

Possibly related PRs

  • oven-sh/bun#30855 — Both modify Tree::hoist_dependency to resolve dependency conflicts during hoisting.
  • oven-sh/bun#37350 — Both cover bundled dependencies and optional-peer hoisting boundaries in install tests.
  • oven-sh/bun#37426 — Both modify lockfile hoisting and install tests for bundled dependency and optional-peer interactions.
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CI (build 97274): every build and test job that ran passed, including bun-lock.test.ts on all 9 Linux/Windows test platforms. The build is marked failed only because its two darwin 14 aarch64 - test-bun jobs were never picked up by an agent: they expired four times over five hours, since that lane (a handful of macOS 15 tart VMs) is currently saturated by main and the volume of PR builds. Nothing in this diff is platform-specific, so this is ready for a maintainer; re-running just those two jobs is enough to get a green build, and a new push would only queue behind the same backlog.

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Found 1 issue this PR may fix:

  1. bun.lock resolves wrong version for dependencies of packages with bundledDependencies #29263 - Exact match: repro-uses-bundled declares is-number@^7.0.0 and bundles repro-bundled (which needs is-number@^3.0.0), and bun.lock records repro-uses-bundled/is-number as 3.0.0 — the bundled dependency landing in the slot the bundling package resolves through, which is what Tree::hoist_root_resolves_elsewhere now guards against.

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Fixes #29263

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Updated 11:05 PM PT - Aug 14th, 2026

@robobun, your commit d9c2e84 has some failures in Build #97274 (All Failures)


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 38848

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-38848 executable, so you can run:

bun-38848 --bun

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In `@src/install/lockfile/Tree.rs`:
- Around line 1143-1198: Optimize hoist_root_resolves_elsewhere by eliminating
the per-call scope Vec allocation and linear scope.iter().find lookup during the
descendant scan. Reuse an existing Builder scratch buffer or add an appropriate
reusable marker/lookup keyed by tree ID, while preserving the current descendant
ownership and bundled-dependency semantics. Keep the change scoped to this scan
and stop early at the hoist-root boundary only if the tree ordering guarantee
supports it.

In `@test/cli/install/bun-lock.test.ts`:
- Around line 1441-1470: Add an assertion in the isolated-linker test around
sharedLinkedIntoHost that locates the bundled-shadow-inner package’s nested
bundled-shadow-shared copy using the actual store layout, verifies its version
remains 2.0.0, and confirms it is not promoted or linked into the
bundled-shadow-host entry. Keep the existing host-link assertion and
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…r is nested there

Bundles usually nest nothing but bundled packages in the bundling package's
node_modules, so checking those entries first lets the common case skip the
pass over the tree list (and its allocation). The isolated test also checks
the bundled copy of the dependency.
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#29263 is this bug (repro-uses-bundled = host, repro-bundled = inner, is-number = shared); the description now closes it.

Since the first push: the comments in Tree.rs were cut down to single lines, the check now looks at the entries placed directly in the hoist root before walking the tree list, so bundles that nest nothing but bundled packages there (npm, fsevents@1, nyc) never do the walk or allocate, and the isolated test also checks the bundled copy. Same set of tests, all still failing on the released binary and passing here; the arborist migration snapshots are still unchanged.

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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it changes the lockfile hoisting algorithm — a subtle, load-bearing part of bun install whose correctness depends on invariants about tree ordering and which packages resolve through a hoist root — a human look from someone familiar with the install code would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed

  • The new hoist_root_resolves_elsewhere guard: verified ExternalSlice::contains is a range check, the !AS_DEFINED gate is sound (the initial call's next_id can never equal hoist_root_id), and the parent == INVALID_ID guard prevents indexing resolutions[ROOT_DEP_ID].
  • Confirmed Filter-mode never sets a hoist root (bundled edges are dropped by is_filtered_dependency_or_workspace), so only the saved tree is affected.
  • The four new tests cover host's own edge, isolated linker, a nested regular dep's edge, and a late-bound optional peer; fixtures are hermetic and the generator script matches the committed registry metadata.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR fixes #29263 by adding a guard in Tree::hoist_dependency (src/install/lockfile/Tree.rs): before placing a bundle's transitive dependency at the bundle's hoist root, a new helper hoist_root_resolves_elsewhere checks whether the bundling package itself, or any of its regular (non-bundled) dependencies nested under it, resolves the same name to a different package. If so the placement is treated as a conflict (DependencyLoop) so the dependency nests one level deeper instead of shadowing what the bundling package would resolve on a lockfile reload. The rest of the diff is test scaffolding: ten new bundled-shadow-* registry fixture packages, a generator script, and four new tests in bun-lock.test.ts.

Security risks

None identified. The change reads from already-resolved lockfile buffers and only affects where entries are placed in the saved tree. No untrusted input parsing, no filesystem writes outside the existing install path, no credential or network handling.

Level of scrutiny

High. The hoisting algorithm determines what bun.lock records and therefore what every subsequent install (including --frozen-lockfile) lays out. A wrong placement here silently gives users the wrong package version, which is exactly the bug being fixed. The new helper walks the tree list relying on breadth-first append order ("a tree comes after its parent"), distinguishes regular vs. bundled entries at the hoist root via resolution_lists[owner].contains(dep_id), and deliberately excludes packages hoisted into the root from inside the bundle. These are the right invariants per the PR description, but they are subtle enough that someone who owns this code should confirm them — in particular that nested_in correctly identifies exactly the set of packages whose resolution walks pass through the hoist root rather than stop at it, and that the descendant scan's ownership check (resolution_lists[parent_owner].contains(tree.dependency_id)) doesn't miss trees created via peer-dep hoisting or ResolveReplace.

Other factors

  • Test coverage is strong: four scenarios (host's own edge, isolated linker, nested-dep edge, late-bound optional peer), each asserting both the lockfile shape and the on-disk layout across fresh install, reinstall, --frozen-lockfile, and --lockfile-only. The PR states all four fail on the released binary and the arborist migration snapshots are unchanged.
  • All prior review comments (comment-cop verbosity, CodeRabbit's per-call allocation concern, the isolated-linker assertion gap) are resolved in the current diff.
  • The uncommon-case descendant walk still allocates a Vec per call and does a linear scope.iter().find; this was accepted after restructuring so the common case (no regular deps nested at the hoist root, which covers real bundles like npm/fsevents/nyc) skips it entirely.

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On the two points worth a human's confirmation, the reasoning is now written out in the description (collapsed section at the end). Short version:

  • Entries only ever get added by the Placement arm, and a placement lands at the dependent's own node_modules, at the root, or at the walk's hoist root. So at a hoist root, "dependency id inside the owner's range and not bundled" is exactly the set placed by walks that continue past it; peer edges take the same walk, and the dedupe outcomes add no entries.
  • ResolveReplace is the one in-place rewrite, and it sets late_bound_optional_peer, so Lockfile::resolve runs another pass where that peer is bound up front and placed normally; the tree from a pass that did a replace is never the one kept.
  • The scan keys on entries rather than trees because a nested package whose dependencies all hoisted away has no tree left (it is popped at the end of process_subtree) but still has edges that resolve through the hoist root.

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