[BUG] pacote.extract errors out for the wrong reason

[jdmarshall]

What / Why

If you give pacote a URL that is not a tarball, it complains that the destination directory does not contain a package.json file.

This is not the error that happened.

When

• always

Where

• n/a

How

Current Behavior

throws:

{
"errno": -2,
"code": "ENOENT",
"syscall": "open",
"path": "/tmp/foo/bar/package.json"
}

Steps to Reproduce

try { let example = await pacote.extract("http://www.example.com", "/tmp/foo/bar", {}); } catch (err) { console.log(err); }

Expected Behavior

How about "unable to extract http://www.example.com"?

Who

• n/a

References

• n/a

[jdmarshall]

Using old pacote version inadvertently.