Cannot use compressed archive in yarn resolution - yarnpkg

Question

For a typescript stenciljs project I'm working on I was having issues with interactions between rollup-plugin-node-builtins and node-gyp-build which was being used in a dependency. To resolve it I was able to make some changes to the rollup plugin and set it as a custom yarn resolution in stencil
"resolutions": {
"#stencil/core/**/rollup-plugin-node-builtins": "https://github.com/Matthew-Smith/rollup-plugin-node-builtins.git"
}
This works fine when I run it locally, but our build process didn't have git available when we execute yarn install So we attempted to set the resolution to a .tar.gz release of the plugin:
"resolutions": {
"#stencil/core/**/rollup-plugin-node-builtins": "https://github.com/Matthew-Smith/rollup-plugin-node-builtins/archive/v2.1.3.tar.gz"
}
This seemed to properly clone the code into node_modules:
> l node_modules | grep rollup
drwxr-xr-x 8 matthewsmith staff 256B Jan 9 11:26 rollup
drwxr-xr-x 9 matthewsmith staff 288B Jan 9 11:26 rollup-plugin-commonjs
drwxr-xr-x 13 matthewsmith staff 416B Jan 9 11:26 rollup-plugin-node-builtins
drwxr-xr-x 8 matthewsmith staff 256B Jan 9 11:26 rollup-plugin-node-resolve
drwxr-xr-x 7 matthewsmith staff 224B Jan 9 11:26 rollup-pluginutils
> l node_modules/rollup-plugin-node-builtins
total 64
drwxr-xr-x 13 matthewsmith staff 416B Jan 9 11:26 .
drwxr-xr-x 670 matthewsmith staff 21K Jan 9 11:26 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 matthewsmith staff 36B Jan 9 11:13 .babelrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 matthewsmith staff 650B Jan 9 11:13 .eslintrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 matthewsmith staff 5B Jan 9 11:13 .gitignore
-rw-r--r-- 1 matthewsmith staff 14B Jan 9 11:13 .npmignore
drwxr-xr-x 5 matthewsmith staff 160B Jan 9 11:26 browser-test
-rw-r--r-- 1 matthewsmith staff 500B Jan 9 11:13 build-constants.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 matthewsmith staff 1.3K Jan 9 11:13 package.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 matthewsmith staff 2.5K Jan 9 11:13 readme.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 matthewsmith staff 216B Jan 9 11:13 rollup.config.js
drwxr-xr-x 4 matthewsmith staff 128B Jan 9 11:26 src
drwxr-xr-x 4 matthewsmith staff 128B Jan 9 11:26 test
but when I attempt to build the code I am getting this output:
$ sd concurrent "stencil build --dev --watch" "stencil-dev-server"
[26:41.1] #stencil/core v0.12.4 🏋
[26:41.2] build, app, dev mode, started ...
[26:41.7] transpile started ...
[26:43.8] transpile finished in 2.07 s
[26:43.8] module map started ...
[26:43.8] generate styles started ...
[26:43.8] module map finished in 12 ms
[26:43.9] generate styles finished in 76 ms
[ ERROR ] Cannot find module 'rollup-plugin-node-builtins' at Function.Module._resolveFilename
(internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:580:15) at Function.Module._load
(internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:506:25) at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:636:17) at
require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:20:18) at
/Users/matthewsmith/penfield/node_modules/#stencil/core/dist/compiler/index.js:18322:26
at Generator.next (<anonymous>) at
/Users/matthewsmith/penfield/node_modules/#stencil/core/dist/compiler/index.js:18306:71
at new Promise (<anonymous>) at __awaiter$13
(/Users/matthewsmith/penfield/node_modules/#stencil/core/dist/compiler/index.js:18302:12)
at createBundle
(/Users/matthewsmith/penfield/node_modules/#stencil/core/dist/compiler/index.js:18310:12)
Is there a special process to using compressed archives for yarn resolutions?
EDIT
here is what my yarn.lock looks like for this dependency:
rollup-plugin-node-builtins#2.1.2, "rollup-plugin-node-builtins#https://github.com/Matthew-Smith/rollup-plugin-node-builtins/archive/v2.1.3.tar.gz":
version "2.1.3"
resolved "https://github.com/Matthew-Smith/rollup-plugin-node-builtins/archive/v2.1.3.tar.gz#af40f65e716e2c62e698cbea169127f9c1717e7d"
dependencies:
browserify-fs "^1.0.0"
buffer-es6 "^4.9.2"
crypto-browserify "^3.11.0"
process-es6 "^0.11.2"
Yarn Version:
1.12.3
Node Version:
10.12.0
Stencil Version:
0.12.4

Answer 1

So I was able to solve this, though I don't really understand why it worked as a git dependency in the first place.
Looking deeper I noticed that the package.json lists the main as:
"main": "dist/rollup-plugin-node-builtins.cjs.js",
and there is a script to build the package:
"build": "rollup -c -f cjs -o dist/rollup-plugin-node-builtins.cjs.js && rollup -c -f es -o dist/rollup-plugin-node-builtins.es6.js && node build-constants.js",
So I executed build, packaged it via npm pack . and then using that compressed file in my dependency resolutions worked!
NOTE: before learning about npm pack . I tried using tar -czvf and that was giving me the same errors as before.