Reserve version number for localpackage config

BuildConfigGen/EnsureUpdateModeVerifier.cs

@@ -83,10 +83,13 @@ public IEnumerable<string> GetVerifyErrors(bool skipContentCheck)
         {
             FileInfo fi = new FileInfo(r.Key);
 
-            if (fi.Name.Equals("resources.resjson", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+            if (fi.Name.Equals("resources.resjson", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+                || fi.Name.Equals(".npmrc", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
             {
                 // resources.resjson is generated by make.js and does not need to be verified
                 // it can differ between configs if configs have different inputs (causes verifier to fail);
+
+                // TODO: ignore .npmrc for now; it's known to be out-of-sync due to upstream updates
             }
             else
             {

BuildConfigGen/Program.cs

@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ static void Main(string? task = null, string? configs = null, int? currentSprint
                 Console.WriteLine(e2.ToString());
                 Console.ForegroundColor = restore;
                 Console.WriteLine();
-                Console.WriteLine("An exception occured generating configs. Exception message below: (full callstack above)");
+                Console.WriteLine("An exception occured generating configs.  [MSFT internal only: questions/problems please refer to https://aka.ms/ado/taskseng] Exception message below: (full callstack above)");
                 Console.WriteLine(e2.Message);
 
                 Environment.Exit(1);
@@ -1178,7 +1178,10 @@ private static void CopyConfig(string gitRootPath, string taskTargetPathOrUnders
             {
                 string targetPath = Path.Combine(taskOutput, ".npmrc");
                 ensureUpdateModeVerifier!.WriteAllText(targetPath, @"scripts-prepend-node-path=true
-", false);
+
+registry=https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/mseng/PipelineTools/_packaging/PipelineTools_PublicPackages/npm/registry/
+
+always-auth=true", false);
             }
         }