Codespace for private org repo unable to fetch internal packages from different internal repo in same org

[kdawgwilk]

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I have a private repository A in my org for which I am setting up a codespace. This repo depends on some packages published from a different repo B (internal) in the same org. The packages from repo B were being published as private packages but we modified them to be internal. We also published new versions of repo B packages since we made the packages internal just in case that visibility change only affected new versions going forward. We also added repo A to the repo B packages in the Manage codespace access settings. With all that being said we are unable to install those packages with the following error:

npm ERR! 401 Unauthorized - GET https://npm.pkg.github.com/download/@myorg/icons/0.0.185/ba5d3e6b3ed1f982e2cc007791dd95375c582324 - authentication token not provided

When we spin up a codespace in repo B this package installs just fine

[kdawgwilk]

Of course right after I posted this I think I came to the realization that we need a .npmrc that tells npm to use the codespaces GITHUB_TOKEN ENV variable as the registry auth token. This could definitely be more clear in the docs.

//npm.pkg.github.com/:_authToken=${GITHUB_TOKEN}