nx-release doesn't release packages using a local dependency protocol outside of ppm

[Saadnajmi]

Current Behavior

We recently migrated our repo to use nx-release (microsoft/react-native-macos@dde6d80), and attempted a publish but got the following warning:

nx run react-native-macos:nx-release-publish
 
Error: Cannot publish package "react-native-macos" because it contains a local dependency protocol in its "dependencies", and your package manager is yarn.

The issue is we use workspace:* for dependencies within our monorepo, and nx-release says Yarn doesn't support that. However, since Yarn 2+ (We're on Yarn 4.5.1), Yarn does support workspace dependencies, so I think this error is incorrect

Expected Behavior

nx-release can publish from a Yarn 4 repo with local/workspace dependencies.

GitHub Repo

https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-macos

Steps to Reproduce

1. Attempt to run yarn nx-release on our release branch (0.76-stable)

Nx Report

NX   Report complete - copy this into the issue template

Node           : 20.16.0
OS             : darwin-arm64
Native Target  : aarch64-macos
yarn           : 4.5.1

nx             : 20.0.7
@nx/js         : 20.0.7
@nx/workspace  : 20.0.7
@nx/devkit     : 20.0.7
typescript     : 5.0.4

Failure Logs

Error: Cannot publish package "react-native-macos" because it contains a local dependency protocol in its "dependencies", and your package manager is yarn.

Please update the local dependency on "@react-native-mac/virtualized-lists" to be a valid semantic version (e.g. using `nx release`) before publishing, or switch to pnpm as a package manager, which supports dynamically replacing these protocols during publishing.



 NX   Running target nx-release-publish for 2 projects and 12 tasks they depend on failed

Failed tasks:

- react-native-macos:nx-release-publish

Package Manager Version

Yarn 4.5.1

Operating System

• macOS
• Linux
• Windows
• Other (Please specify)

Additional Information

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