Railway•2y ago

Is there a way to pass an extra flag to the `install` command?

Is there a way in Nixpacks to pass an extra flag? For example, I would like to skip the postInstall when running pnpm install and add the --ignore-scripts flag. Is there a way to do that in railway.toml?

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Percy•2y ago

Project ID: 660f85e6-f8fa-467e-8c57-d93f8eb3304e

Ryan The TempOP•2y ago

660f85e6-f8fa-467e-8c57-d93f8eb3304e

Brody•2y ago

to give me a better idea of what currently happens show me the table at the top of the build logs

Ryan The TempOP•2y ago

What happens is, in a monorepo, a build will fail in a situation like this: Project A - ENV: a,b Project B - ENV: c The postinstall script will run all the time for every project in the monorepo. If the postinstall script expect env a,b then Project B will always fail during the postinstall phase.

Ryan The TempOP•2y ago

Ryan The TempOP•2y ago

I'd like to add after --frozen-lockfile the flag --ignore-scripts

Brody•2y ago

yeah we can do that

Ryan The TempOP•2y ago

how?

Brody•2y ago

not at my computer at the moment unfortunately can you provide me with your current railway.json file, if you dont have one in your project you can find it in the details tab of your latest deployment

Ryan The TempOP•2y ago

This is the toml file at the moment:

[build]
builder = "nixpacks"
buildCommand = "pnpm directus:build-extensions"
watchPatterns = ["apps/directus/**", "pnpm-lock.yaml", "directus-extensions/**"]

[deploy]
startCommand = "pnpm directus:apply-schema && pnpm directus:start"
restartPolicyType = "on_failure"
restartPolicyMaxRetries = 5

[build]
builder = "nixpacks"
buildCommand = "pnpm directus:build-extensions"
watchPatterns = ["apps/directus/**", "pnpm-lock.yaml", "directus-extensions/**"]

[deploy]
startCommand = "pnpm directus:apply-schema && pnpm directus:start"
restartPolicyType = "on_failure"
restartPolicyMaxRetries = 5

Brody•2y ago

did you have that as a file in your project @Ryan the Temp

Ryan The TempOP•2y ago

yes

Brody•2y ago

well i only know how to do this with railway.json, so i hope you dont have an attachment to toml

Ryan The TempOP•2y ago

I can try json

Brody•2y ago

im doing that for you delete your railway.toml file and use this railway.json file instead

{
  "$schema": "https://railway.app/railway.schema.json",
  "build": {
    "builder": "NIXPACKS",
    "buildCommand": "pnpm directus:build-extensions",
    "watchPatterns": ["apps/directus/**", "pnpm-lock.yaml", "directus-extensions/**"],
    "nixpacksPlan": {
      "phases": {
        "install": {
          "cmds": ["npm install -g corepack", "corepack enable pnpm i --frozen-lockfile --ignore-scripts"]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "deploy": {
    "startCommand": "pnpm directus:apply-schema && pnpm directus:start",
    "restartPolicyType": "ON_FAILURE",
    "restartPolicyMaxRetries": 5
  }
}

{
  "$schema": "https://railway.app/railway.schema.json",
  "build": {
    "builder": "NIXPACKS",
    "buildCommand": "pnpm directus:build-extensions",
    "watchPatterns": ["apps/directus/**", "pnpm-lock.yaml", "directus-extensions/**"],
    "nixpacksPlan": {
      "phases": {
        "install": {
          "cmds": ["npm install -g corepack", "corepack enable pnpm i --frozen-lockfile --ignore-scripts"]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "deploy": {
    "startCommand": "pnpm directus:apply-schema && pnpm directus:start",
    "restartPolicyType": "ON_FAILURE",
    "restartPolicyMaxRetries": 5
  }
}

Ryan The TempOP•2y ago

oh ok, I see. thx I'll try that

Brody•2y ago

yeah just check the build table to make sure the command is what you want and if everything is in the right order think it goes without saying, but the railway.json i provided was untested by me let me know how it goes

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Is there a way to pass an extra flag to the `install` command?