From f66631b8c5ef4707e095e86765500e6d52389c4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AztecBot <tech@aztec-labs.com>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 15:59:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix(aztec-up): allow offline publish to local verdaccio

---
 aztec-up/bootstrap.sh | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/aztec-up/bootstrap.sh b/aztec-up/bootstrap.sh
index dad8802868d8..f4d59acc40ed 100755
--- a/aztec-up/bootstrap.sh
+++ b/aztec-up/bootstrap.sh
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ function build {
   echo
 
   # Create Verdaccio config.
+  # publish.allow_offline lets verdaccio accept publishes when the npmjs
+  # uplink is briefly unreachable, instead of returning 503. We never want
+  # the upstream existence check to gate these local fake-publishes.
   cat > /tmp/verdaccio-config.yaml <<EOF
 storage: $PWD/verdaccio-storage
 max_body_size: 1000mb
@@ -28,6 +31,9 @@ uplinks:
   npmjs:
     url: https://registry.npmjs.org/
 
+publish:
+  allow_offline: true
+
 packages:
   "@*/*":
     access: \$all