pnpm up -i --latest Updates unspecified packages

[alex-way]

Verify latest release

• I verified that the issue exists in the latest pnpm release

pnpm version

v9.0.6

Which area(s) of pnpm are affected? (leave empty if unsure)

Lockfile

Link to the code that reproduces this issue or a replay of the bug

No response

Reproduction steps

• pnpm up -i --latest
• Select one package

Describe the Bug

When running pnpm up -i --latest and picking specific packages pnpm ignores the packages requested and updates everything to latest.

Versions in package.json are not updated, but the lockfile is.

Expected Behavior

Only the dependencies specified should have their versions updated.

Which Node.js version are you using?

20.11.1

Which operating systems have you used?

• macOS
• Windows
• Linux

If your OS is a Linux based, which one it is? (Include the version if relevant)

No response

[alex-way]

The only workaround is to run pnpm up -i --latest as normal, delete the pnpm-lock.yaml and then run pnpm i

[KSXGitHub]

delete the package-lock.json and then run pnpm i

Did you mean pnpm-lock.yaml?

[alex-way]

delete the package-lock.json and then run pnpm i

Did you mean pnpm-lock.yaml?

Ah apologies, I did mean pnpm-lock.yaml!

[KSXGitHub]

I cannot reproduce it. Can you provide your package.json and pnpm-lock.yaml, and also tell me which packages you chose to update. I suspect they may depend on each other.

[alex-way]

Sure, let me see if I can get a minimal repro for you

[AronBe]

I experienced exactly the same issue, basically everything gets updated regardless of what is selected when using the interactive feature

[DrSh4dow]

Same experience over here, it seems to be related to the .npmrc file, when we add the flag node-linker=hoisted then it updates all of the repository dependencies whether you specified them or not in the update command.
I have created a minimal repository to reproduce the issue here:
https://github.com/DrSh4dow/pnpm-issue-POC