`npm` in Github Actions not able to access private repository dependency #26638

ArshanKhanifar · 2021-05-18T15:29:38Z

ArshanKhanifar
May 18, 2021

I have a react native app that uses a native module which is in a different repository. Both my application and the module library are in private repos on Github, under my company’s organization. But both are private repos.

I have the module listed in my package.json file like so:

  "dependencies": {
    "react-native-cellular-info": "https://github.com/repeaterstore/react-native-cellular-info",
  }

And I have a Github Action that checks out the repository and does a yarn install:

      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v2
      - run: yarn install

But I get this message:

npm verb npm  v6.14.12
npm ERR! Error while executing:
npm ERR! /usr/bin/git ls-remote -h -t https://github.com/repeaterstore/react-native-cellular-info.git
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! remote: Repository not found.
npm ERR! fatal: repository 'https://github.com/repeaterstore/react-native-cellular-info.git/' not found
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! exited with error code: 128
npm verb exit [ 1, true ]
npm timing npm Completed in 569ms

At first I thought this was an authorization issue, and used this action along with an access token to ensure that the container has access to my private repos. My configuration now looks like:

    steps:
      - name: Setup git credentials
        uses: fusion-engineering/setup-git-credentials@v2
        with:
          credentials: ${{secrets.GIT_CREDENTIALS}}
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v2
      # other stuff...

I’m even able to clone the private repository now:

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It clearly has access but yet when I try installing, it doesn’t work. It gives me the same

npm ERR! remote: Repository not found.

error. It actually looks like the error is happening when npm is trying to run this command:

npm ERR! /usr/bin/git ls-remote -h -t https://github.com/repeaterstore/react-native-cellular-info.git

Apparently this command doesn’t have any output. I’ve tried it on my own machine, and I’m getting this:

$ git ls-remote -h -t https://github.com/repeaterstore/react-native-cellular-info.git
ae5f720660d1d329349ea7b4c938f3dcd22dd5fe	refs/heads/main

I suspected that maybe npm can’t find the Github registry, but I have other dependencies that ARE hosted on Github but are not private, and they install just fine.

  "dependencies": {
    "react-native-maps": "https://github.com/ArshanKhanifar/react-native-maps#29720262881b9cffd9378f92be2fbb8f28b9f09e",
  }

So I’m really confused why npm can’t find my Github project despite having access to it. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks ❤️

Answered by ArshanKhanifar

Jun 28, 2021

I actually tried a whole bunch of things and eventually solved this, but I think what particularly worked was making a .yarnrc file and adding this line to it:

"@repeaterstore:react-native-cellular-info" "https://npm.pkg.github.com"

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lirantal · 2021-06-28T17:48:23Z

lirantal
Jun 28, 2021

Hi @ArshanKhanifar 👋

Hopefully this issue has been resolved, but if not then you could perhaps use the full URL to the private github repository that includes credentials, but expose them via the secrets variables, rather than hardcode:

"package-name": "git+https://<github_token>:x-oauth-basic@github.com/<user>/<repo>.git"

Another option is to also get an SSH key available on the repo/action workflow and use this syntax:

git+ssh://git@github.com:user_name/node_project.git

See this stackoverflow answer too: node.js - How to use private Github repo as npm dependency - Stack Overflow

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ArshanKhanifar · 2021-06-28T18:12:09Z

ArshanKhanifar
Jun 28, 2021
Author

I actually tried a whole bunch of things and eventually solved this, but I think what particularly worked was making a .yarnrc file and adding this line to it:

"@repeaterstore:react-native-cellular-info" "https://npm.pkg.github.com"

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lirantal · 2021-06-30T07:31:58Z

lirantal
Jun 30, 2021

Gotcha. Thanks for the update!

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hthetiot · 2022-05-25T13:57:20Z

hthetiot
May 25, 2022

Adding “persist-credentials: false” on “actions/checkout@v2” solved the issue for me.

      # Checks-out your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          persist-credentials: false

4 replies

enisinanaj Jun 29, 2023

This did it for me.

ahsansher Aug 2, 2023

Thanks man. this worked for me.
I was stuck for 3 days. :)

m-sirajuddin-bm Aug 19, 2023

This was perfect answer!

ericbutz Mar 17, 2024

Yes!! this was killing me. worked great. thanks.

jgtvares · 2022-09-17T00:07:45Z

jgtvares
Sep 17, 2022

Can someone help me?
I'm going through this very same issue.
In my case, my private repository is in AWS CodeArtifact and I'm correctly authenticating to it in Github Actions.
My workflow was working 17 days ago and nothing was changed that could cause this.
I can install dependencies normally in my local setup, the problem is when running in Github Actions environment.

I have tried a thousand different things and have no clue of what could be causing this!!!
Please help!

I'm using NPM (already tried with Yarn and no success).

UPDATE:
Okay, solved it!
A few days ago I have deleted the upstream configuration from my CodeArtifact repository. I thought it was doing nothing!
So, apparently, you need an npmjs upstream for external access.

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