diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/nodejs/nodejs-oe-cache-16.14/oe-npm-cache b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/nodejs/nodejs-oe-cache-16.14/oe-npm-cache
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+#!/usr/bin/env node
+
+/// Usage: oe-npm-cache <cache-dir> <type> <key> <file-name>
+///    <type> ... meta - metainformation about package
+///               tgz  - tarball
+
+const process = require("node:process");
+
+module.paths.unshift("@@libdir@@/node_modules/npm/node_modules");
+
+const cacache = require('cacache')
+const fs = require('fs')
+
+// argv[0] is 'node', argv[1] is this script
+const cache_dir = process.argv[2]
+const type      = process.argv[3]
+const key       = process.argv[4]
+const file      = process.argv[5]
+
+const data = fs.readFileSync(file)
+
+// metadata content is highly nodejs dependent; when cache entries are not
+// found, place debug statements in 'make-fetch-happen/lib/cache/policy.js'
+// (CachePolicy::satisfies())
+const xlate = {
+    'meta': {
+	'key_prefix': 'make-fetch-happen:request-cache:',
+	'metadata': function() {
+	    return {
+		time: Date.now(),
+		url:  key,
+		reqHeaders: {
+		    'accept': 'application/vnd.npm.install-v1+json; q=1.0, application/json; q=0.8, */*',
+		},
+		resHeaders: {
+		    "content-type": "application/json",
+		    "status": 200,
+		},
+		options: {
+		    compress: true,
+		}
+	    };
+	},
+    },
+
+    'tgz': {
+	'key_prefix': 'make-fetch-happen:request-cache:',
+	'metadata': function() {
+	    return {
+		time: Date.now(),
+		url:  key,
+		reqHeaders: {
+		    'accept': '*/*',
+		},
+		resHeaders: {
+		    "content-type": "application/octet-stream",
+		    "status": 200,
+		},
+		options: {
+		    compress: true,
+		},
+	    };
+	},
+    },
+};
+
+const info = xlate[type];
+let opts = {}
+
+if (info.metadata) {
+    opts['metadata'] = info.metadata();
+}
+
+cacache.put(cache_dir, info.key_prefix + key, data, opts)
+    .then(integrity => {
+	console.log(`Saved content of ${key} (${file}).`);
+})
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/nodejs/nodejs-oe-cache-native_16.14.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/nodejs/nodejs-oe-cache-native_16.14.bb
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+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/nodejs/nodejs-oe-cache-native_16.14.bb
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+DESCRIPTION = "OE helper for manipulating npm cache"
+LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/Apache-2.0;md5=89aea4e17d99a7cacdbeed46a0096b10"
+
+SRC_URI = "\
+    file://oe-npm-cache \
+"
+
+inherit native
+
+B = "${WORKDIR}/build"
+
+do_configure() {
+    sed -e 's!@@libdir@@!${libdir}!g' < '${WORKDIR}/oe-npm-cache' > '${B}/oe-npm-cache'
+}
+
+do_install() {
+    install -D -p -m 0755 ${B}/oe-npm-cache ${D}${bindir}/oe-npm-cache
+}
+
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "nodejs-native"