What / Why

When at least two levels of dependencies are present eg packageA -> packageB -> packageC, and are referenced by local path npm fails to find the reference to packageC and errors with eth following error:

npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall open
npm ERR! path /home/chris/dev/npmCiLocalPath/packageC/node_modules/packageb/node_modules/packagea/package.json
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/chris/dev/npmCiLocalPath/packageC/node_modules/packageb/node_modules/packagea/package.json'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent 

When

For local path dependencies eg file:../packageA which are more than one level deep. Ie a local package references a local package which references a local package.

Where

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How

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Current Behavior

Fails to install nested dependency.

Steps to Reproduce

Reproducible in the following repo:
https://github.com/yahgwai/npm-ci-local-path

Run the following commands to reproduce:

1. (cd packageC && npm i) // good - creates a package-lock.json
2. (cd packageC && npm ci) // error - ENOENT

Expected Behavior

Should not error during npm ci

Who

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References

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