yarnpkg/yarn

Case of package directory not respected on update.

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#5,708 opened on Apr 20, 2018

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Description

We have a package where one of the directories just changed casing, from "fonts" to "Fonts" npm and the tgz file respect the new casing, but when I use yarn install the name of the directory is not changed to the new casing, but remains as lowercase. I expect yarn to respect the casing of the package.

on Windows 10, node 9.11.1, yarn 1.5.1

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Investigate how Yarn handles directory creation during package extraction, specifically on Windows where the filesystem is case insensitive. Check the code in the extractor or installer that renames directories.
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