Yarn: unable to find package.json in module's subdirectory

[Coderah]

yarn add gamepad is resulting in an error:

error Couldn't find a package.json file in "./node_modules/gamepad/node_modules/node-pre-gyp"
and of course node_modules doesn't exist within thegamepaddirectory, howevernode-pre-gypdoes exist in./node_modulesdirectly and it contains apackage.json` file.

I've attempted removing node_modules and running yarn again.

NOTE: I've replaced the long path to my project with simply ./

yarn: v0.17.2
node: 6.9.1
ubuntu

[Coderah]

by running yarn add node-pre-gyp the issue is resolved, however there may still be a bug considering there is nothing that guided me to doing that, nor am I sure I should need to.

[Coderah]

the installation issue was resolved with the above, however actually requiring the module results in the same-ish errors, perhaps this is just due to the gamepad module doing something wrong.

[wyze]

I suspect this is due to gamepad defining node-pre-gyp in bundledDependencies but yarn is hoisting it up to the top level anyways.

[wyze]

Can still reproduce this on 0.17.4.

[paralin]

I'm encountering this now as well.

[nwwells]

Seeing this in 0.18.0 as well. pre-installing node-pre-gyp doesn't resolve the issue for me.

[gabriel]

I think I have a similar problem, might be a dupe or might not, so created an issue here: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/2571

[rodrigopivi]

It's a problem with node-pre-gyp, the issue is already fixed at master, but not at the latest release (v0.6.32).

https://github.com/mapbox/node-pre-gyp/issues/262

[bestander]

merging with https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/886