19.3 has a different behaviour on creating .npmrc

[mariovor]

Version

v19.3.0

Platform

Linux 8c48bb36138c 5.15.0-56-generic #62~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 22 21:24:20 UTC 2022 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Subsystem

No response

What steps will reproduce the bug?

Executed in Docker:

1. Clean container
2. Execute a npm i in a folder not the home dir.
3. Execute a npm config set ...

How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?

Always

What is the expected behavior?

In node 19.2 -> Create .npmrc in home dir (in case of container /root/.npmrc)

What do you see instead?

In node 19.3 -> Create .npmrc in directory executed the npm i

Additional information

Not sure if this is expected, but I did not find anything in the Changelog. Caught this in our CI pipeline because it operated on ~/.npmrc.

[bnoordhuis]

You should report that to npm. Node bundles npm but we don't maintain it.

[mariovor]

Sorry, my mistake.

[targos]

@nodejs/npm FYI

[lukekarrys]

This will be fixed in the upcoming npm@9.3.0 release: npm/cli#5974