How do you build a project that is in a workspace but it's ignored in ppm-workspace.yaml?

[rafaelliu]

I have a monorepo, and want pnpm install --filter='*' to build only my packages, so I have a pnpm-workspace.yaml that looks like:

packages:
   - 'packages/**'
   - '!**/test/**'

Problem is, I have tests that is using pnpm to install dependencies for my fixtures. I can't find a way to manually override the behavior defined in pnpm-workspace.yaml

I'd expect running pnpm install in a directory would install the project no matter what the workspace configuration is, but it doesn't work.

$ cd 'my-project/packages/my-package/test/fixtures/test-project/package.json'
$ pnpm install
No projects matched the filters in "my-project"

Other stuff I also tried and failed the same way:

1. Removing the !**/test/** exclusion and using filter=@my-project at .npmrc
2. Running pnpm install --filter='.'
3. Running pnpm install --filter='test-project'