🐋🔧：install pnpm without corepack

.devcontainer/post-create.sh

@@ -84,10 +84,10 @@ fi
 
 echo "==> Dependencies"
 
-# Corepack prompts before fetching the pinned pnpm, which fails where there is
-# no terminal to answer it.
-export COREPACK_ENABLE_DOWNLOAD_PROMPT=0
-corepack enable
+# No corepack: node is unbundling it, and pnpm does the job it was here for.
+# The pnpm feature installs whatever is current, and pnpm reads
+# `packageManager` and fetches that version itself -- which since pnpm 11 is
+# what `pmOnFail: download` does by default.
 pnpm install
 
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

.github/workflows/deploy.yml

@@ -31,10 +31,11 @@ jobs:
           node-version-file: 'package.json'
       - name: Install
         run: |
-          # Corepack prompts before fetching the pinned pnpm, and there is
-          # no terminal here to answer it. packageManager names the version.
-          export COREPACK_ENABLE_DOWNLOAD_PROMPT=0
-          corepack enable
+          # No corepack: node is unbundling it, and pnpm reads
+          # `packageManager` and fetches that version itself. Installing the
+          # named one rather than the newest saves fetching pnpm twice.
+          npm install --global "pnpm@$(node -p "require('./package.json').packageManager.replace('pnpm@','').split('+')[0]")"
+          pnpm --version
           pnpm install
           echo "$(pwd)/node_modules/.bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
       - name: Build

.github/workflows/lint-and-test.yml

@@ -20,10 +20,11 @@ jobs:
           node-version-file: 'package.json'
       - name: Install
         run: |
-          # Corepack prompts before fetching the pinned pnpm, and there is
-          # no terminal here to answer it. packageManager names the version.
-          export COREPACK_ENABLE_DOWNLOAD_PROMPT=0
-          corepack enable
+          # No corepack: node is unbundling it, and pnpm reads
+          # `packageManager` and fetches that version itself. Installing the
+          # named one rather than the newest saves fetching pnpm twice.
+          npm install --global "pnpm@$(node -p "require('./package.json').packageManager.replace('pnpm@','').split('+')[0]")"
+          pnpm --version
           pnpm install
           echo "$(pwd)/node_modules/.bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
       - name: Build

.markdownlint-cli2.jsonc

@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
   "ignores": [
     "_site/",
     "node_modules/",
+    // The package store, which lives in the project because hard links
+    // cannot cross a filesystem. It holds other people's files.
+    ".pnpm-store/",
     "**/COPYING.md",
     // Generated by compile.siteifyHealthFiles from OpenINF/.github;
     // fixes here are overwritten on the next build.

.remarkignore

@@ -14,3 +14,7 @@ collections/_pages/vision.md
 # Placeholder posts. The prose is Latin filler, so the natural-language
 # rules have nothing useful to say about it.
 collections/_posts/*lorem-ipsum*.md
+
+# The package store, which lives in the project because hard links cannot
+# cross a filesystem. It holds other people's files.
+.pnpm-store/

build/utils.mts

@@ -76,10 +76,17 @@ const expandDotPattern = (pattern: string) => {
  */
 export async function glob(patterns: string | string[]) {
   const include = [];
-  // Matching dot names is what puts `.git/` in reach of a plain `**`, and no
-  // task has any business reading it. Excluded directories are pruned whole,
-  // dot entries included, so callers need not widen their own exclusions.
-  const exclude = ['.git/**'];
+  // Matching dot names is what puts these in reach of a plain `**`, and no
+  // task has any business reading either. Excluded directories are pruned
+  // whole, dot entries included, so callers need not widen their own
+  // exclusions.
+  //
+  // `.pnpm-store/` is the package store, which lives in the project because
+  // the home directory is on another filesystem and hard links cannot cross
+  // one. It holds other people's files, including the copy of pnpm that
+  // `packageManager` asks for, so a check that reads it is checking the
+  // registry rather than this repository.
+  const exclude = ['.git/**', '.pnpm-store/**'];
 
   for (const pattern of [patterns].flat()) {
     if (pattern.startsWith('!')) {

cspell.json

@@ -8,5 +8,10 @@
       "path": "./project-terms.txt"
     }
   ],
-  "ignorePaths": ["_site/**", "node_modules/**", "**/COPYING.md"]
+  "ignorePaths": [
+    "_site/**",
+    "node_modules/**",
+    ".pnpm-store/**",
+    "**/COPYING.md"
+  ]
 }