[BUG] flood of "npm WARN tar ENOENT: no such file or directory, open [...]" followed by failure

[jasonmay]

Current Behavior:

When running a series of install steps I get this error, which doesn't seem specific to the project and more specific to NPM:

2020-09-05T13_12_04_167Z-debug.log

Expected Behavior:

I expect all the steps below to exit successfully.

Steps To Reproduce:

1. Look at [DNM] ENOENT warnings and install failure with local NPM dependencies apollographql/apollo-server#4545.
2. Clone https://github.com/jasonmay/apollo-server and git fetch && git checkout npm-local-dependency-issue
3. Follow the steps in the PR and observe the output.

Environment:

• OS: MacOS 10.15.6
• Node: 14.6.0
• npm: 6.14.7

[darcyclarke]

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[darcyclarke]

npm v6 is no longer in active development; We will continue to push security releases to v6 at our team's discretion as-per our Support Policy.

If your bug is preproducible on v7, please re-file this issue using our new issue template.

If your issue was a feature request, please consider opening a new RRFC or RFC. If your issue was a question or other idea that was not CLI-specific, consider opening a discussion on our feedback repo

Closing: This is an automated message.