Yarn: change yarn global dir - I can not change the yarn global installation folder

[khalid-elabbadi]

Bug

yarn is not changing its global directory

The following command changes the cache directory. no problem ... thanks Yarn
yarn config set cache-folder c:\yarn\cache

But this command is not changing the global installation dir
yarn config set globa-dir c:\yarn\global

when i check after running this command:
yarn global dir
it displays:
C:Usersb31402.MEAA.000AppDataLocalYarnDataglobal

Expected behavior
running the command
yarn global dir
shows c:yarnglobal instead

Environnement

• Yarn 1.6.0
• Node: 9.10.1
• OS: win32 x64

[BYK]

The name should be global-folder, not globa-dir.

If that too doesn't work try --global-folder "c:\yarn\global" in your config file which should definitely work.

[khalid-elabbadi]

Not working :

yarn global dir
C:Usersb31402.MEAA.000AppDataLocalYarnDataglobal

yarn config set global-folder "C:\ds_raiser\common\yarn\data\global"
yarn config v1.6.0
success Set "global-folder" to "C:\ds_raiser\common\yarn\data\global".
Done in 0.05s.

yarn global dir
C:Usersb31402.MEAA.000AppDataLocalYarnDataglobal

yarn config set --global-folder "C:\ds_raiser\common\yarn\data\global"
yarn config v1.6.0
error Invalid subcommand. Try "set, get, delete, list, current"
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/config for documentation about this command.

Can you report this issue ?

[BYK]

@khalid-elabbadi you need to add the line --global-folder "C:\ds_raiser\common\yarn\data\global" manually into your .yarnrc file.

[khalid-elabbadi]

:+1:
Thank you ! It is working

but why this option is not working with a simple command like:
yarn config set global-folder "C:\ds_raiser\common\yarn\data\global"

[BYK]

but why this option is not working with a simple command like:

Because global-folder is not a supported config option at this time. Would you like to submit a PR that adds it? It would be very similar to #5113.

[khalid-elabbadi]

Are you inviting me to develop this feature and add a PR for it ?

[BYK]

@khalid-elabbadi precisely.

[khalid-elabbadi]

I really would like to, but i have an availablity problem
thanks @BYK

[P0oOOOo0YA]

issue on linux

~$ uname -r
4.16.0-kali2-amd64
$ yarn -v
1.9.2

trying to change the global directory to npm. (for god's sake why it's different from npm global)

yarn config set global-folder `npm list -g | head -n 1`

it is changed in the .yarnrc file

# THIS IS AN AUTOGENERATED FILE. DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE DIRECTLY.
# yarn lockfile v1


global-folder "/usr/lib"
lastUpdateCheck 1533550091766

but yarn somehow fails to read its own written config

~$ yarn global dir
~/.config/yarn/global

[worldspawn]

You can manually edit the .yarnrc file however it says in the file # THIS IS AN AUTOGENERATED FILE. DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE DIRECTLY. and indeed my change was overwritten

It also reverted the change i made with the cli
yarn config set prefix C:\Users\critc\.yarn\bin\

This happened after i did a global add

[P0oOOOo0YA]

$ uname -r
4.18.0-kali1-amd64
$ yarn -v
1.10.1

Checking again no change. Using npm for global installs. Not a severe issue so maybe yarn team postpone it in favor of other ones. But this is the only one which prevents me from dropping npm.

[glensc]

i would like to configure this too, because ~/.config is not proper place for global packages, i rather put it to ~/.cache/yarn/global, so i could sync ~/.config with computers i use.

this means local .yarnrc configuration is absolutely not sufficient.

[Darkhorse007]

Thanks