meteorNpm portable file marker causes npm shrinkwrap to fail on organization npm modules

[egoldblum]

$ cat .meteor/release
[email protected]
$ meteor npm --version
3.9.6
$ ls -la node_modules/\@workpop/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x    4 egoldblum  staff   136 Jun 24 12:45 ./
drwxr-xr-x  272 egoldblum  staff  9248 Jun 24 12:45 ../
-rw-r--r--    1 egoldblum  staff     5 Jun 24 12:11 .meteor-portable
drwxr-xr-x   10 egoldblum  staff   340 Jun 24 12:45 optimistic-middleware/

As you can see, we have a npm module installed that is not in a top level directory under node_modules due to the fact that this belongs to an npm organization.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@workpop/optimistic-middleware

Before running meteor build, the .meteor-portable does not exist in this directory and meteor npm shrinkwrap works as expected. After running meteor build, this .meteor-portable file causes subsequent shrinkwrapping attempts to fail as this file is not in a npm module directory but is under node_modules

<snip>
npm ERR! Darwin 15.3.0
npm ERR! argv "node" "/Users/egoldblum/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.3.4.qz3c1w++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/dev_bundle/bin/npm" "shrinkwrap"
npm ERR! node v0.10.45
npm ERR! npm  v3.9.6

npm ERR! Problems were encountered
npm ERR! Please correct and try again.
npm ERR! extraneous: undefined /Users/egoldblum/workpop/Workpop-Web/node_modules/@workpop/.meteor-portable
npm ERR!
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:
npm ERR!     <https://github.com/npm/npm/issues>

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /Users/egoldblum/workpop/Workpop-Web/npm-debug.log

.meteor-portable should not be placed if the directory is not a npm module. Usually top level directories in node_modules are, but not always.

meteor/tools/isobuild/meteor-npm.js

Line 261 in d71ebb6

// Cache previous results by writing a boolean value to a hidden

[egoldblum]

Same bug as storybookjs/storybook#181

[abhiaiyer91]

What's the progress on this @benjamn ? any timeline for when it'll be fixed? This is super annoying, and slows down both local development and deployments to our development environments

[benjamn]

I'm planning a Meteor 1.3.4.2 bug fix release, with this fix included. Please run meteor update --release 1.3.4.2-beta.0 if you would like to upgrade your apps immediately.