force fresh install (clear cache) of single package from tarball

[theoephraim]

I am using pkg.pg.new to test out preview releases of packages. This means that I'm installing packages from a remote URL related to the PR (ex: https://pkg.pr.new/@myorg/sometool@123) which points to a tarball. As my PR is updated, the remote tarball will be updated, but it seems that pnpm wants to cache it locally and will not actually re-install the updated tarball.

Maybe I'm missing something in the docs, but is there a simple way to force a fresh install of a specific package?

Things that do not work:

• pnpm i
• pnpm i --force
• pnpm i https://pkg.pr.new/@myorg/sometool@162 --force
• pnpm cache delete @myorg/sometool && pnpm i
• pnpm cache delete https://pkg.pr.new/@myorg/sometool@162 && pnpm i

The only thing that does work is clearing the entire cache -- pnpm store prune && rm -rf node_modules && pnpm i
But this is obviously undesirable, as it clears the entire pnpm store. I just want to re-install this specific package.

[theoephraim]

I see that pnpm cache delete was added recently, but either it does not fix the issue, or I am using it incorrectly. Perhaps @zkochan can help shed some light?