How can I update preversions in lock file?

[marikaner]

I have a project, where I use preversions for testing, e.g. 1.0.1-20242108.0 with a specific dist tag, e.g. canary.
Now in my tests I always want to pick the latest canary tag.
When running pnpm install, it does not update the lock file.
Ideally, I would like to just skip adding this to the lock file at all. I tried to use hooks for this, but when I remove something from the lock file, installation fails because there is an error in the lock file.

I then tried pnpm install package@canary manually, but this updated the package.json with the cryptic version 1.0.1-20242108.0 instead of canary. I tried adding --save-prod=false --save-dev=false but it is still added to the package.json.

Does anyone have an idea on how I could achieve this?

[marikaner]

After I started retrieving the package metadata from the npm API to replace it with the latest version in the lock file in the hook, I realized a mistake in my previous deletion script.
Deletion actually works, I just deleted every reference to the preversion (correctly).
Maybe this helps others as well:

module.exports = {
  hooks: {
    afterAllResolved: async lockfile => {
      Object.keys(lockfile.packages)
        .filter(pkg => pkg.startsWith('my-package'))
        .forEach(pkg => {
          delete lockfile.packages[pkg];
        });

      Object.keys(lockfile.importers['my-test-package'].dependencies)
        .filter(pkg => pkg === 'my-package')
        .forEach(pkg => {
          delete lockfile.importers['my-test-package'].dependencies[pkg];
        });

      return lockfile;
    }
  }
};