volta-cli
Volta bin stubs are invalid after renaming the local user
If the user renames their account, then the symlinks in the ~/.volta/bin folder may no longer be valid. I didn't run into this issue myself, but a coworker got tripped up on it.
Specifically, you can end up in a situation like this:
❯ ls -la /Users/NEW_USER/.volta/bin/
total 29560
drwxr-xr-x 19 NEW_USER staff 608 9 Aug 17:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 NEW_USER staff 288 14 Mar 13:24 ..
lrwxr-xr-x 1 NEW_USER staff 35 25 Jul 16:28 node -> /Users/OLD_USER/.volta/bin/volta-shim
lrwxr-xr-x 1 NEW_USER staff 35 25 Jul 16:28 nodemon -> /Users/OLD_USER/.volta/bin/volta-shim
lrwxr-xr-x 1 NEW_USER staff 35 25 Jul 16:28 npm -> /Users/OLD_USER/.volta/bin/volta-shim
...
where /Users/OLD_USER no longer exists.
Some ideas:
- Use relative symlinks instead of absolute symlinks
- Add a command to rebuild the shims
@mmun Thanks for reporting! I think in many common cases, we should be able to use relative links. There are a few situations where the binaries we're linking to aren't in the same directory, where I think we would still want to use absolute symlinks, however in those situations, the path shouldn't include the username anyway, so the issue wouldn't even present itself in the first place 😄
