There's a bug in BB npm fetcher on master branch, breaking recipes which use npm:// for fetching. To reproduce enter: devtool add "npm://registry.npmjs.org;name=cute-files;version=1.0.2" A fix is submitted to bitbake-devel: https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/141344/
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=98099349e358a9caaec8ec81f0d4abe588909cfe