npmjs missing dist version 7.0.0-beta.0-ranges

[Doug Beck]

A bit nuanced, discovered because I was using an old version of npm via a private repo server that proxies to npmjs.com:

Installing these deps:

  "dependencies": {
    "babylon": "~7.0.0-beta.0"
  }

NPM tried to install version 7.0.0-beta.0-ranges

Which is present in:

$ npm info babylon --json
{
  "name": "babylon",
  "versions": [
    "7.0.0-beta.0",
    "7.0.0-beta.0-ranges"
  ]
}

But does not have a release associated with it:

$ npm install babylon@7.0.0-beta.0-ranges
> ERR! notarget a package version that doesn't exist.

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[Logan Smyth]

Does npm info babylon --json show the -ranges version when you point it at the main registry? I don't see that on my machine, but I don't know if it's your old npm version, or your registry mirror doing that.

[Doug Beck]

My output:

$ npm info babylon --json | grep 0-ranges
    "7.0.0-beta.0-ranges": "2017-02-15T23:43:49.112Z",

Just to double check I'm configured against npmjs:

$ npm info babylon --json --ddd
...
npm sill mapToRegistry registry https://registry.npmjs.org/
npm verb request uri https://registry.npmjs.org/babylon
...

[Doug Beck]

My mistake, that tag is coming from the time block, not versions.