alpine-node won't preinstall pnpm despite pnpmVersion specified

[lolmaus]

Hi! Thank you for the devcontainer features!

Here's my devcontainer.json: https://github.com/lolmaus/slice-and-dice/blob/3d8276309c45dd0ce57631b3ed001096685cae5e/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json

I update the pnpmVersion property from 9.2.0 to 9.4.0 like this:

I save the file and issue the Dev Containers: Rebuild Container Without Cache palette command. It rebuilds.

But when I pop the terminal and do pnpm -v, it replies with Corepack is about to download https://registry.npmjs.org/pnpm/-/pnpm-9.2.0.tgz. So pnpm is not preinstalled and the wrong version is offered to be installed:

Here are the logs: https://gist.github.com/lolmaus/4c68bd3bca399ee8e991f93b25eb7214

The prharse Preparing pnpm@9.4.0 for immediate activation... is repeated 34 times! Yet, pnpm is not preinstalled.

Please help.

[cirolosapio]

fixed with commit

could you retry ?

[cirolosapio]

ping @lolmaus

[lolmaus]

@cirolosapio Nope. :(

Here's my devcontainer.json:
https://github.com/lolmaus/lolma.us-sveltekit/blob/f30e598/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json#L10

I change the pnpm version at the the highlighted line to 9.5.0, save the file, then run the palette command Dev Containers: Rebuild Container Without Cache.

When it's done, I pop the terminal in VS Code and run pnpm --version, I get:

Corepack is about to download https://registry.npmjs.org/pnpm/-/pnpm-9.2.0.tgz

[cirolosapio]

I think this is the normal behavior if in your package json is setted pnpm@9.2.0

[lolmaus]

@cirolosapio Hey, thank you for pointing that out.

I have :

• deleted the packageManager entry from package.json;
• changed pnpmVersion to 9.3.0 in devcontainer.json;
• rebuilt the container without cache.

Now, when I do pnpm --version, I get:

vscode ➜ /workspaces/lolma.us (ci) $ pnpm --version
! Corepack is about to download https://registry.npmjs.org/pnpm/-/pnpm-9.5.0.tgz
? Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 

I expect 9.3.0 to be preinstalled at this point, but instead it offers to install 9.5.0.

The devcontainer feature is defined like this, am I using the latest version?

	"features": {
		"ghcr.io/cirolosapio/devcontainers-features/alpine-node:0": {
			"corepack": true,
			"pnpmVersion": "9.3.0"
		},

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