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Problem

  • test/cli/install/bun-lock.test.ts > "peer no published version satisfies" > "declared by a registry package" (added in install: stop looping on a peer dependency no published version satisfies #38851) is flaky: its last step resolves from scratch and asserts expect(registry.requests).toEqual([]), and it received ["/peer-target"] in 3 of the last 30 main builds (98704 on Windows, 98827 on macOS, 98850 on Linux) and on build 98343 for install: name satisfies_dependency_version's range-side arguments after the dependency #39127.
  • That step needs both manifests in the project's manifest cache. A cache entry is written by Serializer::save_async (src/install/npm.rs:1245), a thread pool task that bun install deliberately does not count as pending, and nothing joins the pool before the command exits. peer-target's manifest is the last thing the first install fetches and nothing is downloaded after it, so under load the process exits before the entry is renamed into place and the write is lost.
  • The --frozen-lockfile install in between does not look the peer up (with the entry deleted it makes no request), so the from-scratch resolve is the first install to notice and fetches /peer-target again.
  • Measured with a release build on 16 vCPUs under 32 busy loops: 52 of 400 first installs exited with peer-target's entry missing (has-unmet-peer's entry was present every time); under 64 busy loops 41 of 400 (40 missing peer-target, 1 missing has-unmet-peer). Deleting peer-target's entry after the frozen install reproduces the CI failure output exactly, with either linker.
  • The sibling case "declared by the root package and a workspace" only asserts requests after the cold first install, and its frozen install makes no request whether or not the entry exists, so it does not depend on the write and is unchanged.

Fix

  • Before the from-scratch resolve, the test counts the .npm entries in the project's cache (cachedManifests, next to the install helper, whose comment names save_async as the reason) and, while there are fewer than two, removes the lockfile and installs again, at most five times; an install that has to fetch the missing manifest writes its entry again. It then asserts the count is two and runs the from-scratch resolve exactly once, with its zero-requests assertion unchanged.
  • Correct because the retry re-establishes the precondition the step needs and checks it directly on disk; the step under test is not retried, so a resolve that contacts the registry despite a warm cache still fails on the first run, and the count assertion fails after the retries if the entries never appear (checked with install.cache.disableManifest: fails with Expected: 2, Received: 0 on both linkers).
  • Test-side on purpose: test(security-scanner-matrix): don't depend on the setup install's manifest cache writes having landed #37203 added an install-side wait for these writes and reverted it, keeping the write fire-and-forget and fixing the affected test instead; test(install): don't require the refetched manifest to be cached before install exits #38580 and bun-audit.test.ts: install each project once and run the report cases concurrently #39034 (setupWithCachedManifests, same count-and-reinstall shape) do the same for two other tests. A harness-set flag that made save_async write inline for test-spawned installs would cover all of these tests at once (the shape of BUN_DISABLE_SLOW_FILESYSTEM_WARNING from install: add BUN_DISABLE_SLOW_FILESYSTEM_WARNING, set it in the test harness #37000); that adds a test hook to bun install itself, so it is left as a separate decision and not attempted here.
  • Verified: bun bd test test/cli/install/bun-lock.test.ts, 40 pass, the retry loop not entered. With the lost write simulated (peer-target's entry removed after the frozen install) the test at main fails with the output above and this version passes after one extra install; with the manifest cache disabled it fails at the count assertion. Test-only change, so there is no build on which the unmodified test fails deterministically; the evidence is the probe and the simulation.

Background

  • Manifest cache: every registry manifest bun install fetches is serialized into <BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR>/<hash>.npm together with the response's max-age; within that window later installs resolve the package from that file without creating a network task. The test registry sends max-age=300 and each project gets its own cache directory, so the count of .npm files is the number of manifests that project has cached.
  • save_async clones the parsed manifest into a thread pool task that writes a temporary file and renames it into the cache directory. Its doc comment says the cache is optional and the task is not tracked, so a write still in flight when the process exits is lost and the next install simply fetches the manifest again. In a normal install the tarball downloads that follow the manifests give the writes plenty of time; this test's last manifest has nothing after it.
  • Why the test wants a warm cache: the loop fixed in install: stop looping on a peer dependency no published version satisfies #38851 only occurred when the peer's manifest was already cached (the peer pass then looks it up synchronously); with a cold cache the unfixed code exited silently. The zero-requests assertion is what shows the test went through the cached lookup.
Probe and simulation

Probe: the test's registry and project, one fresh project and cache directory per iteration, counting .npm files in the cache after bun install exits, with N while :; do :; done loops running alongside.

load first installs missing an entry which entry
none 0 / 1200
32 busy loops 52 / 400 peer-target 52
64 busy loops 41 / 400 peer-target 40, has-unmet-peer 1

Simulation with the debug build at 7d50fe5, removing peer-target's entry after the first install:

install #1: requests ["/has-unmet-peer", "/has-unmet-peer-1.0.0.tgz", "/peer-target"], cache has both entries
(entry removed)
install #2 --frozen-lockfile: exit 0, requests []
install #3 without the lockfile: exit 0, warns, requests ["/peer-target"], cache has both entries again

The same removal inserted into the test: the version on main fails both linkers with + "/peer-target"; this version passes both, with one extra install each. With install.cache.disableManifest = true instead, this version fails both linkers at expect(cachedManifests(...)).toBe(2) after five extra installs.

Earlier shape of this PR

The first version wrapped the from-scratch resolve itself in a loop that repeated it until an attempt made no requests. Review pointed out that this retried the step carrying the assertion, so a resolve that intermittently contacted the registry with a warm cache would have been retried rather than reported. The current version retries only the setup and runs the resolve once.


no test proof · iteration 0 · Platform-specific test-only change; deferring to CI.

…til the manifest write has landed

The "declared by a registry package" case of "peer no published version
satisfies" resolves from scratch a second time and asserts the registry
is not contacted, which needs both manifests in the manifest cache. Cache
entries are written by a thread pool task that bun install does not wait
for, and peer-target's manifest is the last thing the first install
fetches, so under load that install sometimes exits before the entry is
on disk and the second resolve requests /peer-target again.

A resolve that had to refetch the manifest writes the entry again, so
repeat the from-scratch resolve (a few attempts at most) until one ran
without contacting the registry, and keep asserting the warning and the
identical lockfile on every attempt.
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Updated 6:11 PM PT - Aug 15th, 2026

@robobun, your commit 258f9f78d671e862738494e4113e51121660b621 passed in Build #98888! 🎉


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 39190

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-39190 executable, so you can run:

bun-39190 --bun

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Status: reproduced and fixed, test-only. Head is 258f9f7.

  • Reproduced the lost manifest write with a release build under CPU load (52 of 400 first installs exited before peer-target's cache entry existed), and the exact CI assertion output by removing that entry before the from-scratch resolve. The same failure is in 3 of the last 30 main builds (98704, 98827, 98850).
  • Fix: "declared by a registry package" now checks the project's cache holds both manifest entries before the from-scratch resolve, re-installing (at most five times) if a write was lost, and runs the resolve itself once with its zero-requests assertion unchanged. Details in the PR body.
  • Review comments so far are addressed and their threads resolved.

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Unmet-peer reinstall validation

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Bounded reinstall validation
test/cli/install/bun-lock.test.ts
The test retries installation up to five times after clearing installation state and registry request tracking. Each attempt checks the warning and unchanged lockfile, then stops when no registry requests occur.

Possibly related PRs

  • oven-sh/bun#30855 — Related peer-dependency resolution and lockfile stability changes.
  • oven-sh/bun#37426 — Modifies the same test file for optional-peer install and lockfile behavior.
  • oven-sh/bun#38767 — Related peer-binding behavior exercised by reinstall testing.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

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LGTM — bounded retry that keeps the original invariant.

What was reviewed:

  • The final expect(registry.requests).toEqual([]) still runs after the loop, so 5 consecutive cache misses still fail the test (verified against the PR body's disableManifest check).
  • Each attempt still asserts the unmet-peer warning and byte-identical lockfile, so a retry that took the wrong path is caught immediately rather than masked.
  • The install() helper's 30s spawn timeout means the original #38851 infinite-loop regression would still be caught on the first warm-cache attempt.
  • Confirmed the sibling "declared by the root package and a workspace" case does not depend on the async manifest write and needs no equivalent change.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

Test-only de-flake of one case in test/cli/install/bun-lock.test.ts ("declared by a registry package" under the "peer no published version satisfies" describe). The final from-scratch resolve step is wrapped in a bounded retry loop (max 5 attempts) that breaks once an attempt runs without contacting the registry. The unmet-peer warning and lockfile-identity assertions move inside the loop so they run on every attempt; the zero-requests assertion stays after the loop unchanged.

Security risks

None. This touches only test control flow — no runtime code, no new inputs, no changes to what is asserted.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-medium. It is a de-flake, and REVIEW.md is explicit that de-flakes must keep asserting the property the original assertion protected. That holds here: the property is "a resolve with both manifests cached does not contact the registry and does not loop forever", and the retry only accommodates the documented fire-and-forget manifest cache write (Serializer::save_async, deliberately not joined per #37203). The retry is bounded, each iteration re-asserts the observable outputs, and the terminal toEqual([]) guarantees at least one attempt exercised the warm-cache synchronous-lookup path that #38851 fixed. The PR body demonstrates the new shape still fails with install.cache.disableManifest, so it cannot pass by retrying its way past a real regression.

Other factors

  • Precedent: #37203 reverted an install-side wait for these writes in favour of test-side accommodation, and #38580 did the same for another test, so fixing this test-side rather than joining the thread pool is the established choice.
  • The loop replaces a single-shot check with a bounded poll for the actual condition (cache warm), which is exactly what the test guidance prefers over sleeps.
  • The sibling test case only asserts requests after the cold first install and is correctly left alone.
  • The added comment is specific (names the mechanism, references #37203, quantifies the failure rate) and earns its length by explaining a non-obvious retry.

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LGTM — test-only de-flake that wraps the warm-cache resolve in a bounded retry without weakening the assertion it protects.

What was reviewed:

  • The final expect(registry.requests).toEqual([]) is preserved and the warning/lockfile-identity checks now run on every attempt, so the property under test is not weakened; the PR body confirms it still fails with the manifest cache disabled.
  • The retry is a bounded poll (5 attempts, no sleep) with a comment citing #37203, matching the established pattern for save_async races (#37203, #38580).
  • Checked that the sibling "declared by the root package and a workspace" case does not depend on the same write — it only asserts requests after the cold install, so leaving it unchanged is correct.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

Test-only change to test/cli/install/bun-lock.test.ts, specifically the "declared by a registry package" case in the "peer no published version satisfies" describe block. The from-scratch resolve step (previously run once) is now wrapped in a for loop bounded at 5 attempts that breaks on the first iteration with zero registry requests. Each iteration clears the lockfile, node_modules, and request log before installing, then asserts the unmet-peer warning and byte-identical lockfile. The terminal expect(registry.requests).toEqual([]) is unchanged.

Security risks

None. Test-only change; no production code, no new inputs, no new network surface.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-medium. This is a targeted flaky-test fix with a thoroughly documented root cause (the manifest cache write is a fire-and-forget thread-pool task per Serializer::save_async, and peer-target's manifest is the last fetch with nothing after it to give the write time). The key question per REVIEW.md is whether the retry silently weakens the assertion — it does not: the zero-requests check still runs after the loop, so a run where the cache never warms still fails, and the PR body verified this by setting install.cache.disableManifest and observing failure after 5 attempts. The per-attempt assertions on the warning and lockfile actually strengthen coverage over the original single-shot.

Other factors

  • The approach follows established precedent: #37203 explicitly reverted an install-side wait for these writes in favour of test-side handling, and #38580 applied the same pattern to another test.
  • The bounded-poll shape (no sleep, deterministic exit condition, explanatory comment naming why no better observable signal exists) matches the repo's test guidelines on awaiting conditions.
  • The one CodeRabbit nit (name the retry bound) was addressed in commit 3af43b2 — the loop now uses const maxAttempts = 5 with a standard bounded for.
  • The sibling case in the same describe block was correctly left alone; its request assertion is only on the cold first install and does not depend on the async cache write landing.
  • The PR body includes empirical reproduction data (52/400 under load) and a simulation that reproduces the exact CI failure output, which is more evidence than most de-flake PRs carry.

…r re-resolve instead of retrying it

Check the project's cache for both manifest entries before the
from-scratch resolve and re-run the install (without the lockfile) until
they are there, then run the resolve once with its zero-requests
assertion unchanged. The retry now only re-establishes the precondition
that the fire-and-forget manifest write can leave unmet, so a refetch
during the resolve itself fails the test on the first run.
@robobun robobun changed the title test(install): retry the warm-cache resolve in the unmet peer test until the manifest write has landed test(install): establish the warm manifest cache before the unmet peer test re-resolves Aug 16, 2026

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LGTM — targeted, test-only de-flake with a clear root cause and bounded retry.

What was reviewed:

  • The warm-up loop polls the observable condition (*.npm files on disk) with a hard bound of 5, and expect(cachedManifests).toBe(2) fails loudly if the cache never warms — no silent weakening.
  • The load-bearing assertion (registry.requests empty on the warm-cache resolve) is unchanged; verified the retry cannot mask a regression since the manifest-cache-disabled case still fails per the PR body.
  • cacheDir() extraction is behavior-preserving; Bun.Glob.scanSync over the per-project cache dir is safe (max 2 entries, own cache dir per test).
  • Checked that the final install cannot itself race: with both manifests cached it makes no fetch, so no save_async is scheduled.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR touches a single test file, test/cli/install/bun-lock.test.ts, adding ~24 lines to the "peer no published version satisfies" > "declared by a registry package" case. It extracts a cacheDir(cwd) helper (previously inlined), adds a cachedManifests(cwd) helper that counts *.npm entries in the project's manifest cache via Bun.Glob, and inserts a bounded warm-up loop before the final from-scratch resolve. The loop re-resolves (up to 5 times) until both manifest entries exist on disk, then asserts they do. No production code is touched.

Security risks

None. Test-only change confined to a hermetic in-process registry and per-project temp cache directory. No new inputs, no external network, no changes to install logic.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-medium. This is a de-flake of a test that failed once in CI, with an exceptionally thorough root-cause writeup: the fire-and-forget save_async manifest write in src/install/npm.rs can be lost if the process exits first, and peer-target's manifest is the last thing fetched with nothing after it to give the write time. The fix is test-side by design (precedent: #37203 reverted an install-side wait; #38580 fixed a sibling test the same way). The key REVIEW.md concerns for de-flakes are met: it polls an observable condition rather than sleeping, the bound is explicit, and the property the original assertion protected (zero requests on a warm-cache resolve, i.e. the synchronous-lookup path terminates) is still asserted exactly once, unchanged.

Other factors

  • The head commit (258f9f7) reshaped the fix from "retry the asserting resolve" to "warm the cache first, then run the asserting resolve once" — cleaner because the assertion step itself is not inside a retry. The PR description and resolved CodeRabbit thread describe the earlier shape, but the thread is resolved and the final shape is simpler.
  • The filesystem check after each subprocess exit is race-free: once the child exits, its thread-pool write either landed or was lost, so counting .npm files is deterministic.
  • The retry loop's install omits the node_modules wipe, which is fine — its only job is to trigger another manifest fetch/write; the actual test step still wipes node_modules and clears registry.requests.
  • cachedManifests can only reach 2 (the registry serves exactly two manifests, and each test gets its own cache dir), so < 2 and toBe(2) are consistent.
  • The 5 literal is back inline after the reshape, but it's a self-evident retry count in a two-line loop header; not worth blocking on.

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