ng update ignores strict-ssl configuration

When using a .npmrc file which contains

registry=myCustomRegistry
strict-ssl=false

for self signed certificates, ng update @angular/cli ignores the strict-ssl config and prints out unable to verify the first certificate and aborts.

Angular CLI: 6.0.0-rc.9
Node: 10.0.0
OS: win32 x64
Angular: 5.2.10
... animations, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core, forms
... language-service, platform-browser-dynamic, router

Package                           Version
-----------------------------------------------------------
@angular-devkit/architect         0.5.12
@angular-devkit/build-angular     0.5.12
@angular-devkit/build-optimizer   0.5.12
@angular-devkit/core              0.5.12
@angular-devkit/schematics        0.5.12
@angular/cli                      6.0.0-rc.9
@ngtools/webpack                  1.10.2
@schematics/angular               0.5.12
@schematics/update                0.5.12
rxjs                              5.5.10
typescript                        2.6.2
webpack                           4.6.0

[JonasGroeger]

Which version will this be included in?

[elclanrs]

I tracked the issue down to schematics/update/update/npm.ts#L125-L139.

Looks like strictSsl is actually a boolean and not a string so the if statements below won’t do anything. I changed the code to this in the compiled output and it works now:

function getNpmClientSslOptions(strictSsl, cafile) {
    const sslOptions = {};
    sslOptions.strict = strictSsl;
    if (cafile) {
        sslOptions.ca = fs_1.readFileSync(cafile);
    }
    return sslOptions;
}

In addition, I also had to manually pass my registry even though I have it set in my environment as npm_config_registry, so I did the following after the fix above to update:

ng update --all --registry=$npm_config_registry