Build of Ghost Docker image with locally prepared archive fails

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Hello,
I face an issue with ghost 5.75.1 while trying to build docker image with my ghost-archive built from source. I clone official repo with source code, then execute:
$: yarn install
$: yarn archive
I take official Dockerfile for Ghost, change its contents slightly (just copy the archive into image and use --archive $ARCHIVE_NAME in the installation line).
I don’t make any changes into the repo for the sake of pure testing. Nevertheless, I am getting the following error:

Summary 
#10 323.6 [5/5] Rebuilding all packages...
#10 326.3 error /var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/sqlite3: Command failed.
#10 326.3 Exit code: 1
#10 326.3 Command: node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build
#10 326.3 Arguments: 
#10 326.3 Directory: /var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/sqlite3
#10 326.3 Output:
#10 326.3 /var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/wide-align/align.js:2
#10 326.3 var stringWidth = require('string-width')
#10 326.3                   ^
#10 326.3 
#10 326.3 Error [ERR_REQUIRE_ESM]: require() of ES Module /var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/string-width/index.js from /var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/wide-align/align.js not supported.
#10 326.3 Instead change the require of index.js in /var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/wide-align/align.js to a dynamic import() which is available in all CommonJS modules.
#10 326.3     at Object.<anonymous> (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/wide-align/align.js:2:19)
#10 326.3     at Object.<anonymous> (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/gauge/render-template.js:2:13)
#10 326.3     at Object.<anonymous> (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/gauge/plumbing.js:3:22)
#10 326.3     at Object.<anonymous> (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/gauge/index.js:2:16)
#10 326.3     at Object.<anonymous> (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/npmlog/log.js:3:13)
#10 326.3     at Object.<anonymous> (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/@mapbox/node-pre-gyp/lib/node-pre-gyp.js:23:13)
#10 326.3     at Object.<anonymous> (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/@mapbox/node-pre-gyp/lib/main.js:9:22)
#10 326.3     at Object.<anonymous> (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/@mapbox/node-pre-gyp/bin/node-pre-gyp:4:1) {
#10 326.3   code: 'ERR_REQUIRE_ESM'
#10 326.3 }
#10 326.3 
#10 326.3 Node.js v18.19.0
#10 326.3 info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/add for documentation about this command.
#10 326.9 warning Error running install script for optional dependency: "/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/@contrast/fn-inspect: Command failed.
#10 326.9 Exit code: 1
#10 326.9 Command: node-gyp-build
#10 326.9 Arguments: 
#10 326.9 Directory: /var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/@contrast/fn-inspect
#10 326.9 Output:
#10 326.9 /var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/wide-align/align.js:2
#10 326.9 var stringWidth = require('string-width')
#10 326.9                   ^
#10 326.9 
#10 326.9 Error [ERR_REQUIRE_ESM]: require() of ES Module /var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/string-width/index.js from /var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/wide-align/align.js not supported.
#10 326.9 Instead change the require of index.js in /var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/wide-align/align.js to a dynamic import() which is available in all CommonJS modules.
#10 326.9     at Object.<anonymous> (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/wide-align/align.js:2:19)
#10 326.9     at Object.<anonymous> (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/node-gyp/node_modules/gauge/lib/render-template.js:2:13)
#10 326.9     at Object.<anonymous> (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/node-gyp/node_modules/gauge/lib/plumbing.js:3:22)
#10 326.9     at Object.<anonymous> (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/node-gyp/node_modules/gauge/lib/index.js:2:16)
#10 326.9     at Object.<anonymous> (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/node-gyp/node_modules/npmlog/lib/log.js:3:13)
#10 326.9     at Object.<anonymous> (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/node-gyp.js:5:13)
#10 326.9     at Object.<anonymous> (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.75.1/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js:8:13) {
#10 326.9   code: 'ERR_REQUIRE_ESM'
#10 326.9 }
#10 326.9 
#10 326.9 Node.js v18.19.0"

Node Version: v18.19.0
Ghost-CLI Version: 1.25.3
Yarn Version: 1.21.19
NPM Version: 10.2.3

I have tried to update npm to the latest version, nvm to 18.19.0 (18-lts), to use yarn 3 (not recommended by ghost code owners tho), to delete yarn.lock file, switch between debian/alpine official image - nothing works.
What am I doing wrong? Any additional steps required while building archive?
I am quite frustrated :frowning: as I have been trying to build the image for quite a long time…
Any help would be highly appreciated.

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I’m running into this too! Similar setup, but I’m generating the archive inside my (slightly) modified Dockerfile and then my only other change is installing from that archive rather than from a release tgz.

Did you ever get this working @Sergei_Korepanov?

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I found the issue! Basically npm decided for version 9.x+ that yarn.lock should always be filtered from the tarball when doing npm pack (discussion here). Even when it’s explicitly included in the .npmignore. This causes the dependencies to float and lots them moved on to become a ‘module’.

So my workaround is to make sure my Dockerfile sets the npm version to 8.19.2 (lots of different 8.x versions will work I presume) before I do the archive so it includes the yarn.lock file.

I imagine that the ghost team just does their tarballs for npmjs.org (where ghost-cli gets its download releases) with an old version and doesn’t dare upgrade since it would break everyone’s installs!

Hope that helps @Sergei_Korepanov

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Unfortunately, for me this solution didn’t work not sure why. :confused:

I can see the yarn.lock inside the archive, but when I deploy it, I still get the error below:

“Error [ERR_REQUIRE_ESM]: require() of ES Module …/node_modules/string-width/index.js from …/node_modules/cliui/build/index.cjs not supported.”