rush link ERROR: Failed to parse package.json for <project>: Invalid version: "file:projects/<project>.tgz" about rushstack

[HipsterZipster]

This is a really annoying issue when rush generate --force takes a long time to run. Just adding or updating a single npm module shouldn't require regenerating everything from scratch. To be clear, simply running rush generate doesn't resolve the problem when you are installing a new dependency and I'm forced to run rush generate --force.

@nickpape-msft Is there a open ticket to resolve this issue so that we can simply run rush install?

Steps:

1. start with a completely working rush repo that has a shrinkwrap and is on the latest version of rush
2. manually new external package dependency to package.json (say "react": "15.6.1")
3. run rush install
4. rush install succeeds and then runs rush link
5. rush link fails with ERROR: Failed to parse package.json for my-project: Invalid version: "file:projects/my-project.tgz"
6. Run rush generate as mentioned above.
7. Receive output Skipping generate, since all project dependencies are already satisfied. If you want to force an upgrade to the latest compatible versions, use rush generate --force. Otherwise, just run rush install.)
8. Run 'rush generate --force` and wait awhile...

[nickpape]

Hi @fuocor,

There was a change made in the 3.0.15 release that requires you to run rush generate. To resolve the issue, please run rush generate and checkin the resulting changes to your shrinkwrap file.

[fuocor]

thanks...