expand nightly to the exact version, force install

.evergreen/install-npm-deps.sh

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ echo "MONOGDB_DRIVER_VERSION_OVERRIDE:$MONOGDB_DRIVER_VERSION_OVERRIDE"
 if [[ -n "$MONOGDB_DRIVER_VERSION_OVERRIDE" ]]; then
   export REPLACE_PACKAGE="mongodb:$MONOGDB_DRIVER_VERSION_OVERRIDE"
   npm run replace-package
+  npm ci --verbose --force # force because of issues with peer deps and semver pre-releases
 fi
 
 # if we rewrote this script in javascript using just builtin node modules we could skip the npm ci above

scripts/replace-package.js

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 'use strict';
 const fs = require('fs');
 const path = require('path');
+const { execSync } = require('child_process');
 
 const replacement = process.env.REPLACE_PACKAGE;
 if (!replacement) {
@@ -15,7 +16,17 @@ if (!parsed || !parsed.groups.from || !parsed.groups.to) {
   throw new Error('Invalid format for REPLACE_PACKAGE');
 }
 
-const { from, to } = parsed.groups;
+function resolveTag(from, to) {
+  return execSync(`npm dist-tag ls ${from}@${to} | awk -F ': ' '/^${to}/ {print \$2}'`).toString().trim();
+}
+
+const { from, to: _to } = parsed.groups;
+
+// npm install doesn't seem to do anything if you're updating a
+// package-lock.json file that already has the dep to a tag like nightly, but it
+// does do something if you change it to the exact version.
+const to = _to === 'nightly' ? resolveTag(from, _to) : _to;
+
 for (const dir of ['.', ...fs.readdirSync('packages').map(dir => path.join('packages', dir))]) {
   const packageJson = path.join(dir, 'package.json');
   if (fs.existsSync(packageJson)) {