feat(version): try to support the query language within pnpm.overrides

[mlahargou]

Description

Ref: https://pnpm.io/next/settings#overrides

You may specify the package the overriden dependency belongs to by separating the package selector from the dependency selector with a ">", for example qar@1>zoo will only override the zoo dependency of qar@1, not for any other dependencies.

We currently override a dependency of a specific package using pnpm.overrides.

In our syncpack config, we require exact dependency versions with this config:

When we run syncpack lint, we get the following error:

Suggested Solution

It seems like maybe syncpack doesn't understand this format yet? The current workaround we have is:

[JamieMason]

Hey @mlahargou, slow reply here but that's exactly right – work is needed to understand and resolve the clever > syntax inside the name. It'll be possible but will take some time as it's pretty involved.

[JamieMason]

Hey @zkochan 👋
If you have a moment, would you mind sharing any links you have of relevant tests or specs for the syntax pnpm overrides supports? Such as foo@1.0.0>bar and $foo? I can use that to try and also support that within syncpack.

Thanks a lot.

[zkochan]

Here are the docs: https://pnpm.io/settings#overrides

[JamieMason]

Thanks, I have the docs already, are there any tests or anything more detailed that might help me understand what is possible more deeply? If not, no worries.

[zkochan]

https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/blob/main/config/parse-overrides/test/index.ts

[JamieMason]

Thanks a lot that's great

[laleman-akamai]

@JamieMason As mentioned in #208, npm itself also has similar functionality to > and $. Just different syntax for >. Here is pnpm's example "qar@1>zoo": "2" translated to npm's syntax:

{
  "overrides": {
    "zoo": {
      "qar@1": "2"
    }
  }
}

zoo's dependency on qar@1 will be overridden to qar@2

And to highlight $ for both (p)npm (re: #208):

{
  "dependencies": {
    "foo": "^1.0.0"
  }
  "overrides": {
    "foo": "$foo"
  }
}

Packages that depend on foo will be overridden to match direct dependency of foo@^1.0.0