[Bug?]: Resolving GitHub repo as source

[MrZyr0]

Self-service

• I'd be willing to implement a fix

Describe the bug

Yarn >4.10.x fails to install GitHub dependencies (fork branches) with ESLint plugins under PnP mode, resulting in Error: Qualified path resolution failed: we looked for the following paths, but none could be accessed. during ESLint execution.
Even the installation achieved successfully and use different source format : github:MrZyr0/eslint-plugin-sql#feat/flat-config-support, https://github.com/MrZyr0/eslint-plugin-sql#feat/flat-config-support or https://github.com/MrZyr0/eslint-plugin-sql/archive/refs/heads/feat/flat-config-support.zip.

Potentially important information, possibly related to the subject:
I use Volta to manage binaries on my project and pin to Yarn 4.12.0 is recognized but yarn --version still reports 4.10.3 despite correct package.json declarations.
And to have my installation working with a git source, I've downgraded git to version 2.50.1.

To reproduce

1. Install Volat : curl https://get.volta.sh | bash
2. Create project with package.json:
   {
   "volta": { "yarn": "4.12.0" },
   "packageManager": "yarn@4.12.0",
   "scripts": {
   "lint": "eslint *.js",
   },
   "devDependencies": {
   "eslint": "^9.39.1",
   "eslint-plugin-sql": "github:MrZyr0/eslint-plugin-sql#feat/flat-config-support"
   }
   }
3. Install depsyarn install
4. Init basic ESLint configuration using yarn create @eslint/config
5. Add the plugin to the ESLint configuration:

import { defineConfig } from "eslint/config";
import globals from "globals";
import js from "@eslint/js";
import eslintPluginSql from 'eslint-plugin-sql';

export default defineConfig([
	// ...defaultConfig
  { plugins: { eslintPluginSql.configs['flat/recommended'].plugins }, rules: { ... eslintPluginSql.configs['flat/recommended'].rules } },
]);

6. Run ESLint using yarn lint

Environment

System:
  OS: macOS (Sequoia v15.7.2) 
  CPU: Apple M1 Max
Binaries:
  Node: 25.0.0 - via Volta
  Yarn: 4.12.0 (pinned via Volta, but yarn --version shows 4.10.3)
  npm: latest
  Git: 2.50 (system macOS, Homebrew Git (`v2.52` caused core.autocrlf bug)
  Volta: latest

Additional context

Repo accessible: git ls-remote https://github.com/MrZyr0/eslint-plugin-sql.git feat/flat-config-support

Git config clean: core.autocrlf=input (verified with git config --list --show-origin)

npm works perfectly with same Git dep

Related: #6219 (ESLint flat config), #1554 (qualified path resolution), #3910 (ESLint plugins)

PR context: gajus/eslint-plugin-sql#62 (waiting merge)

Workarounds tested (all fail):

1. GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL= yarn install
2. Tarball URL: https://github.com/.../archive/feat/flat-config-support.tar.gz
3. Manual .pnp.cjs + @yarnpkg/sdks eslint
4. volta run yarn install (still uses 4.10.3)

[clemyan]

The GitHub repo has no prepack script to build the project. As such, it will be cloned as packed as-is, i.e. without a dist/index.js file. You can verify this by checking the cached zip.

Packages should use the prepack script to generate distrubutables``