Yarn: "yarn config set registry" is not work

[ckitterl]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
bug

What is the current behavior?

I used "yarn config set registry http://myPrivateRegistry" to config a custom registry.But it's not work, and be rewrited by npm config.
There is a custom registry at npm

$ npm config get registry
http://registry.npm.taobao.org

After config yarn registry, I checked

$yarn config get registry
http://myPrivateRegistry/

When I used yarn to install $MyPrivatePackage, yarn retrieved from http://registry.npm.taobao.org and failed.

Please mention your node.js, yarn and operating system version.

$yarn --version
1.2.0

$npm --version 
5.3.0

[Wain-PC]

+1 here.
yarn config set registry doesn't have any effect on 1.3.2. Though it works as expected on 1.2.1. Had to downgrade.

[kaylie-alexa]

@ckitterl @Wain-PC I've dug into this issue and it could be that .yarnrc or .npmrc is overriding the config. Can you share what the rc files + lockfile look like?

[thibault-p]

I've deleted the yarn.lock and it solved the problem. Packages are downloaded from my private registry.

$yarn --version
1.3.2

Reference: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/2508#issuecomment-283655600

[ckitterl]

It not work @thibault-p.

I made a clear workspace at /tmp/test/, and initialized a npm package named test. The test directory just contains a file named package.json. After that I wrote a private dependency manually and ran yarn install. Unfortunately I got an yarn error, because yarn could not recognize the registry config.

~/.yarnrc

registry "http://registry.npm.personal/"                                                              
lastUpdateCheck 1511786203577                                                                       
"registry=http://registry.npm.personal/" true    

~/.npmrc

registry=https://registry.npm.taobao.org
regls=

The workspace file list

Total 44
drwxrwxr-x  2 mk   mk    4096 11 27 20:59 .
drwxrwxrwt 25 root root 28672 11 27 20:58 ..
-rw-rw-r--  1 mk   mk     260 11 27 20:36 package.json
-rw-rw-r--  1 mk   mk    3046 11 27 20:59 yarn-error.log

yarn-error.log file content

Yarn version:                                                                                       
  1.2.0                                                                                             

Node version:                                                                                       
  6.7.0                                                                                             

Platform:                                                                                           
  linux x64                                                                                         

npm manifest:                                                                                       
  {                                                                                                 
    "name": "test",                                                                                 
    "version": "1.0.0",                                                                             
    "description": "",                                                                              
    "main": "index.js",                                                                             
    "dependencies": {                                                                               
      "@sdp.nd/nd-react-wrapper": ""                                                                
    },                                                                                              
    "scripts": {                                                                                    
      "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"                                         
    },                                                                                              
    "author": "",                                                                                   
    "license": "ISC"                                                                                
  }                                                                                                 

yarn manifest:                                                                                      
  No manifest                                                                                       

Lockfile:                                                                                           
  No lockfile                                                                                       

Trace:                                                                                              
  Error: https://registry.npm.taobao.org/@sdp.nd%2fnd-react-wrapper: Not found                      
      at Request.params.callback [as _callback] (/usr/share/yarn/lib/cli.js:61949:18)               
      at Request.self.callback (/usr/share/yarn/lib/cli.js:122920:22)                               
      at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)                                                                 
      at Request.emit (events.js:191:7)                                                             
      at Request.<anonymous> (/usr/share/yarn/lib/cli.js:123903:10)                                 
      at emitOne (events.js:96:13)                                                                  
      at Request.emit (events.js:188:7)                                                             
      at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/usr/share/yarn/lib/cli.js:123823:12)                         
      at IncomingMessage.g (events.js:291:16)                                                       
      at emitNone (events.js:91:20)   

@kaylieEB

[zamnuts]

"registry=http://registry.npm.personal/" true

is caused by the command

yarn config set registry=http://registry.npm.personal/

Using the key=value syntax when setting a config is not supported (from what I can tell) in yarn. However, this is _still_ supported as of version npm 5.6, albeit undocumented since it is a legacy syntax. See https://github.com/npm/npm/blob/v5.6.0/lib/config.js#L139-L147

Be sure you're setting your configs in yarn using (without the =!)

yarn config set <key> <value>

e.g.:

yarn config set registry "http://registry.npm.personal/"

[kaylie-alexa]

@ckitterl IIRC, npm config takes priority over yarn config, so you'd have to remove registry=https://registry.npm.taobao.org in .npmrc or point it to your personal registry.

[ckitterl]

@zamnuts It's not work yet

[ckitterl]

Do you mean I can not set registry of yarn that different from npm?

[gerardobort]

npm config takes priority over yarn config

Hi, this is relative to only .npmrc, I tried this by setting NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY (env var), and npm takes it, but not yarn 😕

[arcanis]

It should, we even use it in the tests:

https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/blob/master/packages/pkg-tests/yarn.test.js#L43

[gerardobort]

@arcanis I'm getting a sort of an inconsistent behavior compared to NPM. In this case the env var doesn't take effect for Yarn - I ensured that there's no registry previously set from .yarnrc.

gbort@gbort-mbp:~$ npm config get registry
https://martifactory.io/api/npm/virtual-npm/
gbort@gbort-mbp:~$ NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY=https://example.com/npm/registry npm config get registry
https://example.com/npm/registry
gbort@gbort-mbp:~$ yarn config get registry
https://registry.yarnpkg.com
gbort@gbort-mbp:~$ NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY=https://example.com/npm/registry yarn config get registry
https://registry.yarnpkg.com
gbort@gbort-mbp:~$ yarn --version
1.10.1

[jreusch-barco]

hey hey
i encountered the same issue here, by just grepping through the sources i found a variable called YARN_REGISTRY which works.

$ yarn config get registry
https://registry.yarnpkg.com

$ NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY="http:test" yarn config get registry
https://registry.yarnpkg.com

$ YARN_REGISTRY="http:test" yarn config get registry
http:test

but i actually do not know if this is a supported way or does only work by accident as i couldn't find the documentation for this.

[wildergd]

i have set yarn registry config to my own private repo using "yarn config set registry https://myrepo/"
but when "yarn install" finished.. i check yarn lock file and it points to default yarn registry... not mine.... i had to use --registry option in order to use my own registry.... any ideas???

[godkun]

The reason for not taking effect is caused by .npmrc ...

just:

vim ~/.npmrc
//registry=https://registry.npm.taobao.org
registry=http://myPrivateRegistry

show this:

successfully!

[agnelvishal]

Uninstalled yarn by
sudo apt remove cmdtest
It worked for me

[526avijitgupta]

On mac, I created a .yarnrc with the following:

registry "https://abc.xyz.com"

and it worked

[jreusch-barco]

hmmm?

$ cat ~/.yarnrc 
# THIS IS AN AUTOGENERATED FILE. DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE DIRECTLY.
# yarn lockfile v1

[shadeofgod]

this might help, try yarn add some-module --verbose to check the output.

I have yarn 1.19.1 installed, found it also reads npmrc files and it ignores the yarnrc if there is ~/.npmrc (for me i was a logged user for private npm registry so this file contains token) there.

[kapekost]

Same issue here, this time, for specific registry setup not global.
seems to be different on windows maybe slightly different
the .yarnrc gets populated with the wrong format if you skip the quotes

yarn config set "@myown:registry" "http://myserver:4323"

will make yarn:
"@myown:registry" "http://myserver:4323"
to keep the npm sane the format is more like: (you can edit manually the .npmrc
"@myown:registry"="http://myserver:4323"

without the quotes it gets the aforementioned wrong formatsomething=true

[SeyyedKhandon]

I've removed everything in "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Yarn\Cache" and "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Yarn\Data\global", and now its working...

[aemrebasus]

yarn config set registry=http://localhost:8080

yarn config v1.22.4
error An unexpected error occurred: "EINVAL: invalid argument, mkdir 'C:\\Users\\ahmet\\http:\\localhost:8080'".
info If you think this is a bug, please open a bug report with the information provided in "C:\\Users\\ahmet\\yarn-error.log".
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/config for documentation about this command.