diff --git a/packages/plugin-essentials/sources/commands/install.ts b/packages/plugin-essentials/sources/commands/install.ts
index 9dcd02d12..cf1765a20 100644
--- a/packages/plugin-essentials/sources/commands/install.ts
+++ b/packages/plugin-essentials/sources/commands/install.ts
@@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ export default class YarnCommand extends BaseCommand {
       // If migrating from a v1 install, we automatically enable the node-modules linker,
       // since that's likely what the author intended to do.
       if (content?.includes(`yarn lockfile v1`)) {
+        throw new Error("Tried to use yarn-berry_3.yarnConfigHook (nixpkgs), but found a yarn v1 lockfile");
         const nmReport = await StreamReport.start({
           configuration,
           json: this.json,
diff --git a/packages/plugin-git/sources/GitFetcher.ts b/packages/plugin-git/sources/GitFetcher.ts
index fe2a4fce8..bfa82728e 100644
--- a/packages/plugin-git/sources/GitFetcher.ts
+++ b/packages/plugin-git/sources/GitFetcher.ts
@@ -50,9 +50,14 @@ export class GitFetcher implements Fetcher {
   }
 
   async cloneFromRemote(locator: Locator, opts: FetchOptions) {
-    const cloneTarget = await gitUtils.clone(locator.reference, opts.project.configuration);
-
     const repoUrlParts = gitUtils.splitRepoUrl(locator.reference);
+
+    if (repoUrlParts.treeish.protocol !== "commit") {
+        throw new Error(`Missing source for git dependency ${locator.reference}`);
+    };
+
+    const cloneTarget = opts.cache.checkoutPath(repoUrlParts.treeish.request);
+
     const packagePath = ppath.join(cloneTarget, `package.tgz` as PortablePath);
 
     await scriptUtils.prepareExternalProject(cloneTarget, packagePath, {
diff --git a/packages/plugin-npm/sources/NpmSemverFetcher.ts b/packages/plugin-npm/sources/NpmSemverFetcher.ts
index 0f69423c7..5b21462a5 100644
--- a/packages/plugin-npm/sources/NpmSemverFetcher.ts
+++ b/packages/plugin-npm/sources/NpmSemverFetcher.ts
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ export class NpmSemverFetcher implements Fetcher {
   }
 
   private async fetchFromNetwork(locator: Locator, opts: FetchOptions) {
+    throw new Error(`Missing sources for ${structUtils.prettyLocator(opts.project.configuration, locator)}`);
     let sourceBuffer;
     try {
       sourceBuffer = await npmHttpUtils.get(NpmSemverFetcher.getLocatorUrl(locator), {
diff --git a/packages/yarnpkg-core/sources/Cache.ts b/packages/yarnpkg-core/sources/Cache.ts
index d5e686420..374b5d67f 100644
--- a/packages/yarnpkg-core/sources/Cache.ts
+++ b/packages/yarnpkg-core/sources/Cache.ts
@@ -158,6 +158,10 @@ export class Cache {
     }
   }
 
+  checkoutPath(commit: string): string {
+    return ppath.join(ppath.join(this.cwd, "../checkouts"), commit);
+  }
+
   async fetchPackageFromCache(locator: Locator, expectedChecksum: string | null, {onHit, onMiss, loader, ...opts}: {onHit?: () => void, onMiss?: () => void, loader?: () => Promise<ZipFS> } & CacheOptions): Promise<[FakeFS<PortablePath>, () => void, string | null]> {
     const mirrorPath = this.getLocatorMirrorPath(locator);
 
diff --git a/packages/yarnpkg-core/sources/scriptUtils.ts b/packages/yarnpkg-core/sources/scriptUtils.ts
index b3c2c5903..15cae13fd 100644
--- a/packages/yarnpkg-core/sources/scriptUtils.ts
+++ b/packages/yarnpkg-core/sources/scriptUtils.ts
@@ -287,9 +287,9 @@ export async function prepareExternalProject(cwd: PortablePath, outputPath: Port
             // Run an install; we can't avoid it unless we inspect the
             // package.json, which I don't want to do to keep the codebase
             // clean (even if it has a slight perf cost when cloning v1 repos)
-            const install = await execUtils.pipevp(`yarn`, [`install`], {cwd, env, stdin, stdout, stderr, end: execUtils.EndStrategy.ErrorCode});
-            if (install.code !== 0)
-              return install.code;
+            //const install = await execUtils.pipevp(`yarn`, [`install`], {cwd, env, stdin, stdout, stderr, end: execUtils.EndStrategy.ErrorCode});
+            //if (install.code !== 0)
+            //  return install.code;
 
             stdout.write(`\n`);
 
@@ -375,9 +375,9 @@ export async function prepareExternalProject(cwd: PortablePath, outputPath: Port
             // We can't use `npm ci` because some projects don't have npm
             // lockfiles that are up-to-date. Hopefully npm won't decide
             // to change the versions randomly.
-            const install = await execUtils.pipevp(`npm`, [`install`], {cwd, env, stdin, stdout, stderr, end: execUtils.EndStrategy.ErrorCode});
-            if (install.code !== 0)
-              return install.code;
+            //const install = await execUtils.pipevp(`npm`, [`install`], {cwd, env, stdin, stdout, stderr, end: execUtils.EndStrategy.ErrorCode});
+            //if (install.code !== 0)
+            //  return install.code;
 
             const packStream = new PassThrough();
             const packPromise = miscUtils.bufferStream(packStream);