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docs(pnpr): define how pnpm publishes platform variants - #69
The platform variants RFC specifies how pnpr stores and serves a version with variant archives, and pnpr implements the publish side of it. Nothing yet specifies how a publisher says "this archive is the linux-x64-musl variant of this version". This PR adds a Publishing with pnpm section to pnpr/text/0000-platform-variants.md that defines it.
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Declaration:publishConfig.variants in package.json. It is keyed by the variant's tag (the RFC's derived name, such as linux-x64-musl-napi8 or linux-x64+linux-x64-musl), and primary describes the primary archive (false for a version without one). Each entry has files patterns, which claim files for that archive, and a manifest that replaces base-manifest fields as a whole (null removes a field). This is the replacement rule pnpr's document already uses for variant entries.
Archive contents: files that no pattern claims are shared by every archive. A pattern that matches nothing fails the pack. pnpm writes each variant's variant field from its key and removes the declaration from what it publishes.
Client-side checks: pnpm runs the same tag parser and invariants as pnpr: canonical tags with the canonical spelling given in errors, no overlapping or tied platforms, equal name, version and peers, no os/cpu/libc in variants, and no variant that requires a build.
Archives built on several machines: each CI matrix job runs pnpm publish --upload-variant <key>, which packs its variant, checks it, uploads it to pnpr's staging endpoint, and prints <key>=<integrity>. Nothing becomes visible. A release job runs pnpm publish --variant-integrity <key>=<integrity> …, with the values passed as CI job outputs. Before committing, it checks that every declared variant has an integrity and uses HEAD to confirm each archive is still staged. The version is then committed atomically. Staged archives belong to the uploading account and expire 24 hours after their last upload, so every job has to publish as the same account; under trusted publishing that is the same workflow binding. Archives no longer move between jobs as CI artifacts.
Wire format:versions[v].pnprVariants: { <tag>: <tgz integrity> } and _attachments["<basename>-<version>~<tag>.tgz"] with integrity. The tag itself, + included, is the attachment label. Tags are capped at 128 bytes, and a longer one is refused, never hashed. pnpr's label check needs to change to accept this (Implementation step 6). Every archive is staged first and none is sent inline. The section covers single-package PUT /<name> and -r --batch.
Registries other than pnpr: the publish is refused. --no-variants publishes the primary alone, and only when the publisher asks for it, because a version cannot get its variants later.
Dry run, provenance, retries: a dry run runs every check and sends no request. Provenance uses one statement per version, signed by the committing job, --batch included, with that version's archives as subjects. Variants are named by a variant PURL qualifier with + written %2B, and the release-records RFC now gives each variant entry the same purl. Retries depend on deterministic packing and on pnpr's recorded outcomes. A rerun whose new provenance signature makes the request differ is reconciled against the integrities in pnpr's document.
The RFC's Rationale section now also covers the options this design rejects: a top-level field, a separate file, CLI flags only, each machine publishing its own variant into a live version, moving archives between jobs as CI artifacts, a directory per variant, and publishing only the primary.
Implementation step 6 lists the pnpr changes this needs: accepting variants without a primary archive, checking that the provenance statement names every archive, accepting the tag as the attachment label, adding each variant's purl to the release record, and letting trusted-publishing workload credentials use the staging endpoint and batch commit.
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Expanded the publishing proposal to describe configuring package variants, packing and validating archives, and staging and publishing variants together.
Clarified that CI jobs can stage separate archives and that staged uploads remain invisible until the release is committed.
Added guidance on registry restrictions, provenance for each archive, dry runs, retries, migration, and publishing without a primary archive.
Specified how variant PURLs identify archives in publisher and npm provenance, including encoding for +.
Expanded proposed validation, staging, account, expiry, and provenance test coverage.
Declare variants in publishConfig.variants, keyed by variant tag, with
file patterns and manifest overrides per archive. Specify packing,
client-side checks shared with pnpr, archives built by CI matrix jobs,
the publish request shape pnpr expects, the refusal for registries
without variants, and dry runs, provenance, and retries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The proposal describes publishConfig.variants, archive preparation and validation, uploads to staging, and single-package or batch commits by integrity. CI matrix jobs upload archives; a final job commits them.
Variant provenance and release records pnpr/text/0000-release-records.md
The proposal specifies percent-encoded variant PURL qualifiers and uses each variant PURL to identify its .tgz in provenance.
Alternatives, implementation, and test coverage pnpr/text/0000-platform-variants.md
The proposal updates tools-outside-npm guidance, publication alternatives, implementation tasks, and tests for validation, staging, provenance, dry runs, and retries.
pnpm/rfcs#49: Defines the release-record contract that this proposal updates with variant PURLs and provenance subjects.
pnpm/rfcs#51: Defines the variant model that this proposal extends with publisher workflows.
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to c492a
Clarify retry identity and generated-primary recording before merge to avoid reporting an incorrect release as successful and leaving archive verification ambiguous.
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The following are alternative approaches to this PR:
1. Separate variant configuration file
➕ Keeps publisher-specific declarations out of package.json.
➖ Adds discovery and another configuration format for each package.
2. One package directory per variant
➕ Allows each build to maintain its own manifest and files.
➖ Duplicates shared files and manifests or requires overlay rules.
Recommendation: Keep the proposed publishConfig.variants declaration and single-package file-claiming model. It fits existing package layouts while making shared manifest invariants and recursive publication easier to specify. This PR defines the contract; it does not implement pnpm or pnpr support.
• Adds declaration and archive-content rules, client-side validation, local and CI packing workflows, and the staged single-package and batch publish formats. It also specifies registry refusal, dry runs, provenance, retries, migration examples, rejected designs, implementation steps, and publisher test cases.
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Minor · Limit the dry-run guarantee to client-side checks. · 0000-platform-variants.md:937-944
pnpr/text/0000-platform-variants.md:937-944 Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Limit the dry-run guarantee to client-side checks.
A dry run cannot detect account capacity already consumed by staged archives because it sends no request. The real publish can pass the dry run and then fail when pnpr rejects staging. Replace the exact-failure guarantee with wording that names this limitation.
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-A dry run therefore fails exactly where the publish would fail before its first request.+A dry run validates the checks that pnpm can perform before publishing. It cannot detect account-level staged-archive capacity failures; pnpr may reject the upload when earlier staged archives consume the account's limits.
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Review comment at @pnpr/text/0000-platform-variants.md around lines 937 - 944:
Update the `pnpm publish --dry-run` description to limit its guarantee to checks
that can be performed before publishing. State that it cannot detect
account-level staged-archive capacity limits and that pnpr may reject an upload
when previously staged archives consume those limits.
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- Around line 937-944: Update the `pnpm publish --dry-run` description to limit
its guarantee to checks that can be performed before publishing. State that it
cannot detect account-level staged-archive capacity limits and that pnpr may
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Use the variant tag as the attachment label, capped at 128 bytes; sign
one provenance statement per version in batch publish; name variant
archives with a percent-encoded variant PURL qualifier in provenance
subjects and release records.
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Each matrix job uploads its variant to pnpr's staging endpoint with
pnpm publish --upload-variant, and a release job commits the version
atomically with --variant-integrity. Drop --variant-archives, explain
why per-machine publishing into a live version is rejected, and keep
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Major · Do not report success from matching archive bytes on retry. · 0000-platform-variants.md:1090-1108
pnpr/text/0000-platform-variants.md:1090-1108 Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Do not report success from matching archive bytes on retry.
The retry rule in 0000-platform-variants.md defines an identical retry by archive bytes. It then lets pnpm report success when the release record's .tgz inputs match. The atomic publication RFC rejects both. Release bytes cannot establish a replay, and a request that differs in tags, version notes, publication name, or batch membership is a conflict.
For example, a provenance-signed rerun with a different --tag or version note gets "already published" from pnpr. pnpm then compares only the archives, finds them identical, and reports success. The requested tag or note was never applied, and the release job reports success.
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- A retry is identical when its archives are byte-identical, which- deterministic packing and archives given by integrity ensure, and when it- signs nothing.+ A retry is identical when its whole-request digest equals the committed one,+ as [atomic workspace publication](./0000-atomic-workspace-publication.md)+ defines it. Byte-identical archives are one input to that digest. Deterministic+ packing and archives given by integrity ensure that input.
- A retry that signs provenance again sends a new statement, so it is a new
- request, and pnpr reports the version as already published. pnpm then reads- the version's release record. It reports the version as published when the- `.tgz` that the record names as the input of the primary and of each- variant is the one it would have sent. For a version with- `"primary": false`, it compares the variants only: pnpr generated the- primary from them, so it follows from them. Otherwise it fails and- names the archives that differ. Rerunning a release job is safe this way,- with or without provenance.+ request, and pnpr reports the version as already published. pnpm reports the+ version as published only when pnpr confirms that the recorded outcome matches+ this request's whole-request digest. The release record's `.tgz` inputs+ identify which archives differ. Matching archives alone never establish+ success. For `"primary": false`, the primary is not implied by the variants,+ so it is compared through the same digest. Otherwise pnpm fails and names the+ archives or request fields that differ. Rerunning a release job is safe this+ way, with or without provenance.
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Review comment at @pnpr/text/0000-platform-variants.md around lines 1090 - 1108:
Update the retry description in the “A publish can be retried” section to define
an identical retry by equality of the whole-request digest, as specified in the
atomic workspace publication RFC. State that matching archive bytes alone cannot
establish success; pnpm should report success only when pnpr confirms the
recorded outcome matches the request digest, with differing archives or request
fields reported as appropriate.
Minor · Clarify whether a "primary": false version's generated… · 0000-platform-variants.md:903-905
pnpr/text/0000-platform-variants.md:903-905 Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Clarify whether a "primary": false version's generated primary has a record entry.
The record exception at release-records.md:129-130 applies to "a version without a primary." A "primary": false version still serves a generated primary archive, which npm, Yarn, and Bun clients install using dist.integrity. The record does not describe that archive. Provenance excludes it. Its bytes have no record or provenance check beyond dist.integrity.
Either add an integrity entry for the generated primary to the record, or state that it is outside the record and name how clients verify it. The wording below takes the second option.
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-provenance names a variant's `.tgz` by the same PURL. A version without a primary has-no top-level `integrity`. The `manifest` is the install manifest that+provenance names a variant's `.tgz` by the same PURL. A version without a primary has+no top-level `integrity`. For `"primary": false`, the generated primary is not described+by this record. Its digest is only the `dist.integrity` in npm documents, and provenance+does not cover it. The `manifest` is the install manifest that
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Review comment at @pnpr/text/0000-platform-variants.md around lines 903 - 905:
Clarify the `"primary": false` case in the release-record documentation: state
that the generated primary archive is not described by the record, its digest is
available only through npm’s `dist.integrity`, and provenance does not cover it.
Keep the existing record behavior for versions without a primary unchanged.
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Review comments at @pnpr/text/0000-platform-variants.md:
- Around line 1090-1108: Update the retry description in the “A publish can be
retried” section to define an identical retry by equality of the whole-request
digest, as specified in the atomic workspace publication RFC. State that
matching archive bytes alone cannot establish success; pnpm should report
success only when pnpr confirms the recorded outcome matches the request digest,
with differing archives or request fields reported as appropriate.
- Around line 903-905: Clarify the `"primary": false` case in the release-record
documentation: state that the generated primary archive is not described by the
record, its digest is available only through npm’s `dist.integrity`, and
provenance does not cover it. Keep the existing record behavior for versions
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The merge-risk note on c492aa4 asked to clarify retry identity and how the generated primary is recorded. This commit missed the merge of #69, so it continues in #70:
Retry identity: a retry that re-signs provenance is reported as published only when the release record matches the request completely: the same set of variant tags, each .tgz input the request would have sent, a provenance statement when this run signs one, and the dist-tag pointing at the version. Otherwise pnpm fails and names what differs.
Generated primary: for "primary": false, the record has no top-level integrity and names no primary input, as the release-records RFC specifies, so pnpm compares the variants only.
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Summary
The platform variants RFC specifies how pnpr stores and serves a version with variant archives, and pnpr implements the publish side of it. Nothing yet specifies how a publisher says "this archive is the
linux-x64-muslvariant of this version". This PR adds a Publishing with pnpm section topnpr/text/0000-platform-variants.mdthat defines it.Design
publishConfig.variantsinpackage.json. It is keyed by the variant's tag (the RFC's derived name, such aslinux-x64-musl-napi8orlinux-x64+linux-x64-musl), andprimarydescribes the primary archive (falsefor a version without one). Each entry hasfilespatterns, which claim files for that archive, and amanifestthat replaces base-manifest fields as a whole (nullremoves a field). This is the replacement rule pnpr's document already uses for variant entries.variantfield from its key and removes the declaration from what it publishes.os/cpu/libcin variants, and no variant that requires a build.pnpm publish --upload-variant <key>, which packs its variant, checks it, uploads it to pnpr's staging endpoint, and prints<key>=<integrity>. Nothing becomes visible. A release job runspnpm publish --variant-integrity <key>=<integrity> …, with the values passed as CI job outputs. Before committing, it checks that every declared variant has an integrity and usesHEADto confirm each archive is still staged. The version is then committed atomically. Staged archives belong to the uploading account and expire 24 hours after their last upload, so every job has to publish as the same account; under trusted publishing that is the same workflow binding. Archives no longer move between jobs as CI artifacts.versions[v].pnprVariants: { <tag>: <tgz integrity> }and_attachments["<basename>-<version>~<tag>.tgz"]withintegrity. The tag itself,+included, is the attachment label. Tags are capped at 128 bytes, and a longer one is refused, never hashed. pnpr's label check needs to change to accept this (Implementation step 6). Every archive is staged first and none is sent inline. The section covers single-packagePUT /<name>and-r --batch.--no-variantspublishes the primary alone, and only when the publisher asks for it, because a version cannot get its variants later.--batchincluded, with that version's archives as subjects. Variants are named by avariantPURL qualifier with+written%2B, and the release-records RFC now gives each variant entry the samepurl. Retries depend on deterministic packing and on pnpr's recorded outcomes. A rerun whose new provenance signature makes the request differ is reconciled against the integrities in pnpr's document.The RFC's Rationale section now also covers the options this design rejects: a top-level field, a separate file, CLI flags only, each machine publishing its own variant into a live version, moving archives between jobs as CI artifacts, a directory per variant, and publishing only the primary.
Implementation step 6 lists the pnpr changes this needs: accepting variants without a primary archive, checking that the provenance statement names every archive, accepting the tag as the attachment label, adding each variant's
purlto the release record, and letting trusted-publishing workload credentials use the staging endpoint and batch commit.Written by an agent (Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5).
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