install: print version before package name in the minimum-release-age error

[robobun]

Problem

• When --minimum-release-age (or install.minimumReleaseAge) blocks every version that satisfies a dependency, bun install prints the package name and the requested version in each other's slots: No version matching "regular-package" found for specifier "3.0.0" (blocked by minimum-release-age: 432000 seconds).
• The neighbouring (but package exists) error fills the same template the other way round, so the two errors a user can get for one dependency disagree.
• Cause: the age-gate branch passes the two format arguments in the opposite order to the branch beside it. It has been this way since bun install: support for minimumReleaseAge #22801, and this is the only place the message is produced.

Fix

• Swap the two arguments. The message now reads No version matching "3.0.0" found for specifier "regular-package" (blocked by minimum-release-age: 432000 seconds).
• Property to check: in both errors the first slot is what a version had to match and the second is the package name. The dist-tag variant already had that shape and is untouched.
• Verification: the tests that matched this error with a loose regex now pin the full text against the mock registry; the three age-gate assertions fail without the change and pass with it.

Background

• --minimum-release-age N makes install ignore versions published less than N seconds ago. If nothing that satisfies the dependency remains, install fails rather than taking a newer version.
• One template, No version matching "X" found for specifier "Y", serves both "nothing satisfies X" and "the age gate blocked everything that does"; only the trailing parenthetical differs.
• A dependency written as a dist-tag (latest) fails through a separate message naming the package and tag, so it is not affected.

Original description

What

When --minimum-release-age (or install.minimumReleaseAge) blocks every version that satisfies a range, bun install printed the package name and the range in the wrong slots:

error: No version matching "regular-package" found for specifier "3.0.0" (blocked by minimum-release-age: 432000 seconds)

The sibling error for a range that nothing satisfies fills the same template the other way around, and that is the order the rest of the install tests already assert on (bun-install.test.ts, bun-install-registry.test.ts):

error: No version matching "^9" found for specifier "regular-package" (but package exists)

After this change the age-gate variant reads the same way:

error: No version matching "3.0.0" found for specifier "regular-package" (blocked by minimum-release-age: 432000 seconds)

Why

The first slot of the template is the thing a version has to match, so it can only sensibly hold the requested version or range; the TooRecentVersion branch in PackageManagerEnqueue.rs passed name there and version.literal second. The NoMatchingVersion branch a few lines above passes them the other way around, so the two errors a user sees for the same dependency disagreed with each other. The dist-tag variant (Package "x" with tag "latest" not found (all versions blocked ...)) was already in the right order and is unchanged. This has been the case since the feature landed in #22801; it is the only place the message is produced, and nothing else in the repo (docs, other tests) depends on the old order.

Repro

# registry serves regular-package 1.0.0 (30 days old) and 3.0.0 (1 day old)
echo '{"dependencies":{"regular-package":"3.0.0"}}' > package.json
bun install --minimum-release-age 432000

Fix

Swap the two format arguments in the TooRecentVersion branch of enqueue_dependency_with_main_and_success_fn so they line up with the template and with the NoMatchingVersion branch.

Tests

test/cli/install/minimum-release-age.test.ts only matched this error with a loose regex. It now pins the full text for:

• an exact version that is too recent (FindVersionError::TooRecent), fails before this change
• a range whose every match is too recent, both ^2.1.0 and * (FindVersionError::AllVersionsTooRecent), fails before this change
• the dist-tag variant and the (but package exists) variant, whose order was already correct, so the three messages are asserted side by side

USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 bun test test/cli/install/minimum-release-age.test.ts   # 3 fail (the three age-gate assertions), 48 pass
bun bd test test/cli/install/minimum-release-age.test.ts                 # 51 pass

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[robobun]

Status: reproduced and fixed, waiting on CI.

Reproduced with the released build by running the pinned assertions in test/cli/install/minimum-release-age.test.ts (USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 bun test ...): the exact-version, ^2.1.0 and * cases print No version matching "<name>" found for specifier "<range>". With the debug build all 51 tests in the file pass.

Review so far: the automated review came back without findings, so there is nothing outstanding on the diff.

[robobun]

^{Updated 3:05 PM PT - Aug 12th, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit f26001c has 3 failures in Build #93411 (All Failures):

• test/js/node/worker_threads/worker-transfer-list.test.ts - unchecked exception at JSC__JSModuleLoader__loadAndEvaluateModule @ src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp:3788 (thrown from vendor/WebKit/Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/VMTraps.cpp:443) on 🐧 13 x64-asan
• step failed outside runner - exit 56 on 🐧 aarch64 - verify-baseline
• scripts/build/ci.ts - build failed on 🍎 x64 - build-bun
• scripts/build/ci.ts - build failed on :freebsd: x64 - build-bun
• scripts/build/ci.ts - build failed on 🐧 x64 - build-bun

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[claude]

LGTM — two-argument swap in the error format string, matching the sibling NoMatchingVersion branch.

What was reviewed:

• Confirmed the (but package exists) branch at PackageManagerEnqueue.rs:803-805 already passes version.literal then name; this change makes TooRecentVersion consistent.
• Grepped for other consumers of the old message order — only this file and the test file reference it.
• Test changes tighten loose regexes to exact strings and add the ^2.1.0 range and dist-tag variants; new tests drain stdout/stderr concurrently and assert stderr before exitCode.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR swaps two positional format arguments in the TooRecentVersion error branch of enqueue_dependency_with_main_and_success_fn (src/install/PackageManager/PackageManagerEnqueue.rs) so the version literal fills the "No version matching …" slot and the package name fills the "for specifier …" slot — the same order the adjacent NoMatchingVersion branch already uses. The test file replaces three loose toMatch(/…/) assertions with exact toContain strings and adds two new tests covering the ^2.1.0 range and the dist-tag variant, so all three related error messages are pinned side by side.

Security risks

None. This is a cosmetic reordering of interpolated values in a user-facing error string; no input handling, allocation, or control flow changes.

Level of scrutiny

Low. The native change is a two-line argument transposition with no type changes, and I verified against the current tree that the sibling branch (lines 803-805) uses exactly the order this PR adopts. A grep for the message text confirms nothing else in the repo (docs, other tests) asserts on the old order. The test additions follow the repo's conventions (await using on spawn, Promise.all for pipe draining, stderr asserted before exitCode, exact strings instead of regex).

Other factors

The PR description records that USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 fails the three new pinned assertions and the debug build passes all 51, so the tests are load-bearing. No prior human review comments to address; the only timeline entries are a CodeRabbit rate-limit notice and the author's status update.