revert to ancient pkg-dir for compat with nextjs :-(

Author: williamstein

src/packages/backend/data.ts

@@ -31,10 +31,11 @@ import { isEmpty } from "lodash";
 import basePath from "@cocalc/backend/base-path";
 import port from "@cocalc/backend/port";
 import { FALLBACK_ACCOUNT_UUID } from "@cocalc/util/misc";
-import { packageDirectorySync } from "package-directory";
+// using old version of pkg-dir because of nextjs :-(
+import { sync as packageDirectorySync } from "pkg-dir";
 
 function determineRoot(): string {
-  const pd = packageDirectorySync({ cwd: __dirname }) ?? "/";
+  const pd = packageDirectorySync(__dirname) ?? "/";
   const root = resolve(pd, "..", "..");
   process.env.COCALC_ROOT = root;
   return root;

src/packages/backend/package.json

@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@
     "fs-extra": "^11.3.1",
     "lodash": "^4.17.21",
     "lru-cache": "^7.18.3",
-    "package-directory": "^8.1.0",
     "password-hash": "^1.2.2",
+    "pkg-dir": "^5.0.0",
     "prom-client": "^15.1.3",
     "rimraf": "^5.0.5",
     "shell-escape": "^0.2.0",

src/packages/backend/sandbox/install.ts

@@ -16,13 +16,14 @@ import { arch, platform } from "os";
 import { execFileSync, execSync } from "child_process";
 import { writeFile, stat, unlink, mkdir, chmod } from "fs/promises";
 import { join } from "path";
-import { packageDirectorySync } from "package-directory";
+// using old version of pkg-dir because of nextjs :-(
+import { sync as packageDirectorySync } from "pkg-dir";
 import getLogger from "@cocalc/backend/logger";
 
 const logger = getLogger("files:sandbox:install");
 
 const binPath = join(
-  packageDirectorySync({ cwd: __dirname }) ?? "",
+  packageDirectorySync(__dirname) ?? "",
   "node_modules",
   ".bin",
 );