[reggi]

Summary

Select the newest Node.js version that advertises an available source archive instead of blindly selecting the newest index entry. Download the archive before extraction with explicit HTTP failure handling and retries.

This prevents an incompletely published nightly from being passed to tar as an HTTP error response and allows the workflow to use the newest nightly with source available.

Closes #10016.

Validation

• Verified nightly selection skips an entry without src and selects the next available nightly.
• Verified release selection still chooses the newest matching version with src.
• Verified the generated workflow matches scripts/template-oss/node-integration-yml.hbs.
• Manual nightly workflow run: https://github.com/npm/cli/actions/runs/35894741221

[github-actions]

⚠️ Backport to release/v10 failed.

This usually means the cherry-pick had conflicts. Please create a manual backport:

git fetch origin release/v10
git checkout -b backport/v10/10021 origin/release/v10
git cherry-pick -x 7c78fe0a0ef83883b6c550eb4b33484f3d08895d
# resolve any conflicts, then:
git push origin backport/v10/10021

Error details

Command failed: git cherry-pick -x 7c78fe0a0ef83883b6c550eb4b33484f3d08895d
error: could not apply 7c78fe0a0... chore: handle unavailable node nightly source (#10021)
hint: After resolving the conflicts, mark them with
hint: "git add/rm <pathspec>", then run
hint: "git cherry-pick --continue".
hint: You can instead skip this commit with "git cherry-pick --skip".
hint: To abort and get back to the state before "git cherry-pick",
hint: run "git cherry-pick --abort".
hint: Disable this message with "git config set advice.mergeConflict false"

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⚠️ Backport to release/v11 failed.

This usually means the cherry-pick had conflicts. Please create a manual backport:

git fetch origin release/v11
git checkout -b backport/v11/10021 origin/release/v11
git cherry-pick -x 7c78fe0a0ef83883b6c550eb4b33484f3d08895d
# resolve any conflicts, then:
git push origin backport/v11/10021

Error details

Command failed: git push origin backport/v11/10021
To https://github.com/npm/cli
 ! [remote rejected]     backport/v11/10021 -> backport/v11/10021 (refusing to allow a GitHub App to create or update workflow `.github/workflows/node-integration.yml` without `workflows` permission)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/npm/cli'