Add installationMethod property to package.json #1557
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Summary
Adds an
installationMethod
property topackage.json
, and updates the packaging scripts to set it. This can be used to show the installation method as part of the CLI output (#942), or to determine which update mechanism to use when updating to a newer version of Yarn (#1429, #1139)Test plan
Built everything and eyeballed the
package.json
in different scenarios (eg. looked in.deb
file,.rpm
file, ran Windows installer)References #1138, #1139, #942, #1429,