How do I use Yarn 3.4.1 with the node orb?

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We are trying to update to using the latest version of yarn, instead of “classic” or version 1, which is no longer active )GitHub - yarnpkg/yarn: The 1.x line is frozen - features and bugfixes now happen on https://github.com/yarnpkg/berry). I get an error if I try to specify that version in the node spec. The docs seem all about installing the packages outside of our scripts. I want that in our scripts.

2

Can you provide some more information as to what you’re experiencing? Like which Docs you’re reviewing, a copy of your config.yml file, error messages, etc? This will help in routing to a good answer.

3

Well, so first, I tried

   - node/install:
        install-yarn: true
        yarn-version: 3.4.1
        node-version: '16.19.0'

And I got

Selected version of Yarn is 3.4.1
Checking if YARN is already installed...
Installing YARN v3.4.1
^@^@
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
mv: cannot stat 'yarn-v3.4.1/*': No such file or directory

And subsequent searches of the docs indicated that that mechanism only worked with yarn 1.
Now I am doing a run block to install it:

    name: Yarn Set Version Stable                                                                                                                                   
    command: |                                                                                                                                                      
     npm install -g yarn || echo "Yarn may have already been installed."                                                                                            
     yarn set version stable

but not sure if that is the best way.

4

Thank you - I have pinged this to the team to see what’s up

5

Thanks for sharing @nroose. BAsed on the information you provided, it seems like we could possibly drop Yarn 1 in future major versions of the Node orb, does that seem acceptable to you?

For a workaround, what you are showing there is actually more or less exactly what we would change to the orb as well. I believe we originally were pulling from GitHub releases to ensure a version number, but that is subject to change and cause issues like you saw here, installing via NPM may be more reliable as it self-installs.

6

So, uh, we are actually struggling now with the upgrade. I am a little ahead of the team in figuring out how to do it on CircleCI. I think a lot of yarn users are still on the old one, unfortunately. And I think the benefits of yarn are no longer that much better than NPM anyway, so we may just go back to npm. In the end, I think supporting 1 and 3 would be great. I guess 2 didn’t last long, so not sure about that one.

7

Uh, did you change something? We are getting errors on the old version now.

8

Oh, now it’s working!