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Problem

  • The hoisted linker exits 0 without a required dependency when an optional dependency resolves to the same package and the download fails. It prints only warn: GET <url> - 404. The isolated linker exits 1 with no error: line, and --offline skips the package.
  • run_tasks reports a failed download as an error only if its network_dedupe_map entry has is_required (src/install/PackageManager/runTasks.rs:831, :920). The install phase takes that flag from the dependency that owns the node_modules slot or store entry, which can be the optional one.
  • A required dependency that asks gets AlreadyFailed, or joins the running download (enqueue_tarball_for_download, enqueue_package_for_download). The linkers treat both as reported.

Fix

  • RequiredPackages (src/install/lockfile/Tree.rs) tells whether a linked dependency without Behavior::OPTIONAL resolves to the package. Both linkers pass that to the three enqueue functions. The walk runs only if an optional dependency owns a package that needs a download.
  • download_already_failed (PackageManagerEnqueue.rs): a required request raises a running download to required. If the download already failed for optional dependencies only, the request forgets that failure and downloads again.
  • has_created_network_task no longer changes is_required of a failed download.
  • Verified: test/cli/install/bun-install-retry.test.ts (20 new tests fail without the fix), plus the suites in Notes. Self-reviewed: 3 concerns raised, 3 addressed.

Background

  • The resolve phase downloads each package it adds to the lockfile. The install phase asks for each package missing from the cache.
  • network_dedupe_map has one entry per download, with is_required and failed (install: don't re-download a tarball that already failed #34103).
  • Both linkers place a package once for all dependencies on it, under one of them (Tree.dependency_id, a store node's dep_id).
Notes

Found by audit. No user report exists. The contract is from #11828 (exit 1 and an error when a required tarball cannot be downloaded). #34103 added AlreadyFailed, which is half of the ways in.

What "required" means here. A package is required when a dependency on it that the install links does not have the OPTIONAL bit. This is per dependency, as before. A required dependency of an optional parent still fails the install (exit 1 before and after). An optional peer has the bit, so it does not make a package required. Behavior::is_required() says the opposite for an optional peer, which is why the walk reads the bit.

Peer dependencies. A peer counts only when it owns the slot, because then it is the dependency that the linker placed. The walk does not count or follow other peers. hoist_dependency can give a peer the package of an ancestor (a version that satisfies the range, or any version that the root declares), and the isolated linker binds peers through the ancestors too. So the lockfile resolution of a peer does not say what the install links for it.

Hoisted linker, tarball always answers 404, before → after.

case before after
a required and in bun.lock, new optional b, same tarball URL warn, exit 0 warn + error, exit 1
a and b both in bun.lock, cold cache warn, exit 0 error, exit 1
a: npm:baz, optional b: npm:baz, no lockfile warn, exit 0 warn + error, exit 1
root optional baz, required bar needs baz, no lockfile warn, exit 0 warn + error, exit 1
the same from bun.lock on a cold cache warn, exit 0 error, exit 1
the same with --offline, only baz missing from the cache no output, exit 0 error: --offline: "baz" is not in the cache, exit 1
the same shape with a git dependency and --offline no output, exit 0 error: --offline: git repository for "gitpkg" is not in the cache, exit 1
parents x (optional baz) and y (required baz), from bun.lock warn, exit 0 error, exit 1
the same with the names swapped error, exit 1 error, exit 1
parent with a non-optional peer on baz first, other parent with optional baz, no lockfile warn, exit 0 warn + error, exit 1
the same from bun.lock error, exit 1 error, exit 1
parent with an optional peer on baz first, other parent with optional baz, from bun.lock error, exit 1 warn, exit 0
the same with no lockfile, or with the names swapped warn, exit 0 warn, exit 0
a peer resolves to baz@0.0.3, the tree binds it to the root's baz@0.0.5, only an optional dependency links baz@0.0.3 warn, exit 0 warn, exit 0
only a devDependency needs baz, --production warn, exit 0 warn, exit 0
only a workspace that --filter skips needs baz warn, exit 0 warn, exit 0

Before, the exit code also depended on the name order of the parents and on whether a lockfile existed. After the change those two matter only where a peer owns the slot. With the isolated linker the exit code was already 1 in these cases. The change there is the error: line, which was missing whenever the resolve phase had reported the failure as a warning.

Why the required request downloads again. The error then comes from the code that reports every other failed download, with the real reason. A failure that was transient for the optional dependency does not fail the required one: the test installs the required one when its own download succeeds covers that. The cost is one more attempt, only after an optional-only failure.

Callbacks left in task_queue. A dependency that asks for a failed download while resolving queues a callback and starts nothing (generate_network_task_for_tarball returns None). download_already_failed removes that list with the dedupe entry. Without the removal the new request joins the dead list: the hoisted linker skips the package in silence and the isolated linker never exits. A build without that line confirmed both.

Why failed is now final. Root peers resolve after every other task. A peer on a tarball that already failed for an optional dependency set is_required on the failed entry, and the next required request then took it for a reported error.

Each clause has a test that fails without it. I built these variants and ran the new tests: no task_queue removal, no failed guard in has_created_network_task, no filter in the walk, is_optional() in place of the OPTIONAL bit, and peers counted in the walk.

Not changed.

Tests. The new block in bun-install-retry.test.ts is describe.concurrent. Each test has its own registry context and project directory. The file runs in about 7 s with the debug build.

Suites run with the debug build: bun-install-retry, bun-install-offline, bun-install-tarball-integrity, bun-install-streaming-extract, bun-install-git-deps, isolated-install, bun-add, bun-install-patch, bun-install-cpu-os, bun-workspaces, bun-install (13 failures that need bitbucket, gitlab or another external host, the same 13 fail with the released build).

…ed download

A download that only optional dependencies asked for fails with a warning.
A required dependency on the same package did not change that: in the
install phase it took the already-failed path, joined the running
download, or was not asked about at all, because a node_modules slot or
store entry belongs to one dependency and that one can be the optional
one. The hoisted linker then exited 0 without the required package, and
the isolated linker failed without an error line. --offline skipped the
package the same way.

The linkers now ask whether any dependency the install links requires
the package, and pass that to the download. A required request raises a
running download to required. If the download already failed for
optional dependencies only, the request forgets that failure and
downloads again, so its own failure is an error. A failed download
keeps the flag its failure was reported with.
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Status: ready for a maintainer. The diff is green. Build #121937 passed 180 of 181 jobs. The one red job (debian 13 x64-asan) fails only test/js/bun/spawn/spawn.test.ts (an idle reader stopped at the highwater mark does not keep the process alive). That test was also in the annotations of 40 of the 58 other PR builds that I checked on Sep 30, main builds do not run the ASAN lane, and this PR changes only src/install and one install test file. test/cli/install/bun-install-retry.test.ts is not in the failure or retry list of that build. All review threads are answered and resolved.

How I reproduced it (bun 1.4.3-canary.1+c6b7fcb5b, Linux x64, local server only):

  1. Serve pkg-1.0.0.tgz from a local Bun.serve. Install { "dependencies": { "a": "<url>" } } with --linker=hoisted. bun.lock now resolves a.
  2. Remove node_modules, use an empty cache, and make the server answer 404.
  3. Add "optionalDependencies": { "b": "<url>" } and install again.

Result before the fix: warn: GET <url> - 404, Saved lockfile, exit 0, and node_modules/a does not exist. With --linker=isolated: exit 1 and Failed to install 1 package, with no error: line.

The same result needs no change to package.json when the hoisted linker places the package under the optional dependency: for example root optionalDependencies: { baz } plus a required bar that depends on baz, from bun.lock on a cold cache. --offline skips such a package without a message, for registry, tarball and git dependencies.

A build without the fix fails 20 of the new tests in test/cli/install/bun-install-retry.test.ts. All pass with this branch.

Found on the way and tracked separately: #43211 (lifecycle scripts read the same owning dependency), #43212 (the isolated linker exits 1 for a package that only optional dependencies need) and #43214 (for a non-optional peer the result depends on the name order of the parents).

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Install scheduling now classifies required packages using lockfile traversal and passes that status to npm, Git, and tarball enqueue operations. Download deduplication uses the status to retain failed-task error or warning handling and to retry after an optional-only failure when a required request arrives. Tests cover linker and offline cases.

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Required download handling

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Required package classification
src/install/lockfile/Tree.rs, src/install/PackageInstaller.rs, src/install/hoisted_install.rs, src/install/isolated_install.rs, src/install/auto_installer.rs
RequiredPackages traverses lockfile dependencies and accounts for workspace filters and installation selections. Hoisted, isolated, and auto-install paths pass requiredness to download enqueue operations.
Requiredness propagation and deduplication
src/install/PackageManager/PackageManagerEnqueue.rs, src/install/PackageManager/runTasks.rs, src/install/NetworkTask.rs
Enqueue operations use the supplied requiredness for failure checks and offline misses. A required request can retry a package after an optional-only failure; failed entries retain their existing requiredness.
Retry and offline behavior validation
test/cli/install/bun-install-retry.test.ts
Tests cover shared download failures across required and optional dependencies, retry behavior, linker paths, and offline cache misses.

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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked two things in RequiredPackages (src/install/lockfile/Tree.rs) that turned out fine: a package appended after the lazy walk answers true via is_set_allow_out_of_bound, which errs toward reporting rather than silently skipping; and a non-optional dependency of an optional parent is marked required by the walk, which matches the pre-change exit-1 behavior for that shape rather than introducing a new failure.

Extended reasoning...

The four inline findings (peer-edge marking in the hoisted tree, the untouched Git arm under --offline, the join-a-dead-entry hang in download_already_failed when generate_network_task_for_tarball returns None without marking failed, and the serial test cost) already signal that a human should look. This note only records what else was examined in the diff and ruled out so a reviewer does not re-derive it: the out-of-bound bitset default in RequiredPackages::contains and the transitive-required-under-optional-parent case in the BFS walk, both of which preserve or tighten existing behavior rather than weaken it.

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…ers in the walk

- enqueue_git_for_checkout takes is_required like the tarball and npm
  enqueue functions, so --offline reports an uncached git repository that
  an optional dependency owns in node_modules while another package
  requires it.
- The walk in RequiredPackages does not count or follow peer dependencies.
  The linkers can bind a peer to another package than the one it resolves
  to, so its resolution does not say what the install links.
- A walk is redone once the install appended a package.
- The new tests use a registry context each and run concurrently.
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Updated 12:29 PM PT - Sep 30th, 2026

❌ @robobun, your commit 0443c5f has 1 failures in Build #121937 (All Failures):


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 43197

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-43197 executable, so you can run:

bun-43197 --bun

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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#43218 builds on this branch. It uses RequiredPackages for the optional flag of lifecycle scripts (issue #43211).

…load tests

The test for an uncached git dependency under --offline moves from
bun-install-offline.test.ts into the block of bun-install-retry.test.ts
that covers a download shared by an optional and a required dependency.
bun-install-offline.test.ts is the same as on main again.

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