Unable to install webpack@latest because of updated @long dependency

[Ivaylo Lafchiev]

npm sill fetchPackageMetaData error for long@git://github.com/dcodeIO/long.js.git#8181a6b50a2a230f0b2a1e4c4093f9b9d19c8b69 Error while executing:

In my firm direct access to Github assets is blocked, and I imagine this will be the case for a lot of enterprise applications. Hence it is impossible to install the latest version of Webpack which depends on 1.8.2 of this module.

Can this change be reverted or fixed?

[Sven Sauleau]

I didn't though about that, sorry! I'll change it.

[Sven Sauleau]

cc @dcodeIO would you mind doing a release of long.js?

[Jacob Grady]

Same issue (I think) preventing me from installing Webpack ina new project

95 silly fetchPackageMetaData error for long@git://github.com/dcodeIO/long.js.git#8181a6b50a2a230f0b2a1e4c4093f9b9d19c8b69 Error while executing:
95 silly fetchPackageMetaData undefined ls-remote -h -t git://github.com/dcodeIO/long.js.git
95 silly fetchPackageMetaData
95 silly fetchPackageMetaData
95 silly fetchPackageMetaData spawn git ENOENT
96 verbose stack RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded
96 verbose stack     at RegExp.test (<anonymous>)
96 verbose stack     at isDepOptional (C:\Users\Jacob\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\lib\install\deps.js:405:45)
96 verbose stack     at failedDependency (C:\Users\Jacob\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\lib\install\deps.js:414:9)

[Sven Sauleau]

@JacobGrady do you have git installed on your system? If not could install it and try again?

[Jacob Grady]

@xtuc I did not have git installed, did install after you mentioned it, and the webpack install is now working properly. Thank you!

However I believe webpack had been previously installed via npm without git being installed on my system without any problems (at least a year ago)

[Adam Thomson]

Seeing the same error all day today. I do have git installed though:

> which git
/usr/local/bin/git

Guess my error is slightly different:

106 silly fetchPackageMetaData error for long@git://github.com/dcodeIO/long.js.git#8181a6b50a2a230f0b2a1e4c4093f9b9d19c8b69 Error while executing:
106 silly fetchPackageMetaData /usr/local/bin/git ls-remote -h -t git://github.com/dcodeIO/long.js.git
106 silly fetchPackageMetaData
106 silly fetchPackageMetaData undefined
106 silly fetchPackageMetaData exited with error code: 128

Any ideas?

[Henry Quinn]

I'm getting the same error, @amadt . @xtuc - I have git installed and it's not going through.

[Adam Thomson]

I'm on a corporate network. Once I tried from outside my network it succeeded.

[markula]

The issue I ran into is my app installs and builds modules inside a docker image where it makes no sense to have a git installed or user credentials exposed. This has killed deploys today with no obvious work around.

[dcompiled]

Trying to install webpack for the first time as a new user and blocked with this error: "Maximum call stack size exceeded"

I have git installed, it simply does not work. Testing this from behind a corporate network. The command that fails specifically is:

107 silly fetchPackageMetaData C:\Users......\Programs\Git\cmd\git.EXE ls-remote -h -t git://github.com/dcodeIO/long.js.git
107 silly fetchPackageMetaData
107 silly fetchPackageMetaData fatal: read error: Invalid argument

I can run the command with https:// but not git:// just fine.

git.EXE ls-remote -h -t git://github.com/dcodeIO/long.js.git

I am a bit confused why git is required to operate on the command line to download this npm package. Is there any way I can force it to use https?

[Sven Sauleau]

As a workaround you can install webpack@4.29.3

[Sagi Tsofan]

Same error here:

4450 silly fetchPackageMetaData C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.EXE ls-remote -h -t git://github.com/dcodeIO/long.js.git
4450 silly fetchPackageMetaData
4450 silly fetchPackageMetaData fatal: unable to connect to github.com:
4450 silly fetchPackageMetaData github.com[0: 192.30.253.113]: errno=No error
4450 silly fetchPackageMetaData github.com[1: 192.30.253.112]: errno=No error
4450 silly fetchPackageMetaData
4450 silly fetchPackageMetaData
4450 silly fetchPackageMetaData exited with error code: 128
4451 verbose stack RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded
4451 verbose stack at RegExp.test ()

[shayan tabatabaee]

I have same issue too, is there any solution for this ?

[Sagi Tsofan]

Installing webpack with version 4.29.3 worked for me

[Eric Vincent Bermudez]

As a workaround you can install webpack@4.29.3

This works for me. Thank you with <3

[Aivan Monceller]

Can you not use the ssh protocol, just use the https procotol for cloning? I believe most build systems have ssh ports disabled.

[Joel Jeske]

Hooray thanks!

[markula]

Thanks for patching this. Much appreciated.

[Darek Kay]

Thanks! webpack released a patched version 4.29.5 today. Don't forget to expire your registry cache if you are using a custom (corporate) registry.

webpack/webpack@073813f

[Byoungchan Lee]

Because of this issue, I was converting my project to use yarn. ( https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/selective-version-resolutions/ )

//package.json
"resolutions": {
    "**/@webassemblyjs/**/long": "4.0.0"
},

BTW, https://www.npmjs.com/package/@xtuc/long/v/4.2.2 says there is a version named 4.2.2, but I cannot find any codes or tags for such version in https://github.com/xtuc/long.js. May I ask why there are no tags for this release?