Coolify's Nixpacks pulls pnpm 9.15.9, which sees pnpm-workspace.yaml as a
monorepo descriptor and dies with 'packages field missing or empty' the
moment 'pnpm install' starts. The whole reason we kept that file around
was the 'allowBuilds' / 'patchedDependencies' blocks needed by pnpm 11
locally — both have a longstanding equivalent on the 'pnpm' key inside
package.json that pnpm 9 also understands. Consolidated them there and
removed the workspace file entirely.
package.json
"pnpm": {
"onlyBuiltDependencies": ["sharp", "unrs-resolver"],
"patchedDependencies": {
"node-fetch-native-with-agent@1.7.2":
"patches/node-fetch-native-with-agent@1.7.2.patch"
}
}
Lockfile regenerated under pnpm 11 locally; install succeeds. The
node-fetch-native-with-agent patch (the Node 26 / undici workaround) is
still applied so Coolify's pnpm install will replicate the fix in the
build container.
kovakmedya