npm install for package with local dependency fails

What I Wanted to Do

Install a package that has local dependencies (i.e. “file:…”).

What Happened Instead

I get an error message that transitive dependency of the local dependency cannot be installed:

ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename ‘/XYZ/npm-install-local-dependency-bug/examples/node_modules/.staging/npm-install-local-dependency-bug-f307b53e/node_modules/acorn’ -> ‘/XYZ/npm-install-local-dependency-bug/examples/node_modules/.staging/acorn-af0fc6c4’

Reproduction Steps

$ git clone https://github.com/jhecking/npm-install-local-dependency-bug.git .
Cloning into '.'...
remote: Counting objects: 7, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.
remote: Total 7 (delta 2), reused 7 (delta 2), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (7/7), done.

$ cat package.json
{
  "name": "npm-install-local-dependency-bug",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "devDependencies": {
    "standard": "^11.0"
  }
}

$ npm install
npm WARN npm-install-local-dependency-bug@1.0.0 No description
npm WARN npm-install-local-dependency-bug@1.0.0 No repository field.

added 214 packages from 173 contributors and audited 374 packages in 2.304s
found 0 vulnerabilities

$ cd examples/

$ cat package.json
{
  "name": "examples",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "npm-install-local-dependency-bug": "file:.."
  }
}

$ npm install
npm WARN examples@1.0.0 No description
npm WARN examples@1.0.0 No repository field.

npm ERR! path /XYZ/npm-install-local-dependency-bug/examples/node_modules/.staging/npm-install-local-dependency-bug-f307b53e/node_modules/acorn
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! syscall rename
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename '/XYZ/npm-install-local-dependency-bug/examples/node_modules/.staging/npm-install-local-dependency-bug-f307b53e/node_modules/acorn' -> '/XYZ/npm-install-local-dependency-bug/examples/node_modules/.staging/acorn-af0fc6c4'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/jhecking/.npm/_logs/2018-07-20T04_01_29_488Z-debug.log

Details

2018-07-20T04_01_29_488Z-debug.log (21.0 KB)

Platform Info

$ npm --versions
{ examples: '1.0.0',
  npm: '6.2.0',
  ares: '1.14.0',
  cldr: '33.0',
  http_parser: '2.8.0',
  icu: '61.1',
  modules: '64',
  napi: '3',
  nghttp2: '1.32.0',
  node: '10.6.0',
  openssl: '1.1.0h',
  tz: '2018c',
  unicode: '10.0',
  uv: '1.21.0',
  v8: '6.7.288.46-node.13',
  zlib: '1.2.11' }
$ node -p process.platform
darwin

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