diff --git a/tests/legacy-cli/e2e/setup/015-build.ts b/tests/legacy-cli/e2e/setup/015-build.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 4c434aac714b..000000000000
--- a/tests/legacy-cli/e2e/setup/015-build.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-import { getGlobalVariable } from '../utils/env';
-import { npm } from '../utils/process';
-
-export default function() {
-  const argv = getGlobalVariable('argv');
-  if (argv.nobuild) {
-    return;
-  }
-
-  return npm('run', 'build', '--', '--local');
-}
diff --git a/tests/legacy-cli/e2e/setup/100-global-cli.ts b/tests/legacy-cli/e2e/setup/100-global-cli.ts
index dd24d7acc8a7..21ed8749789c 100644
--- a/tests/legacy-cli/e2e/setup/100-global-cli.ts
+++ b/tests/legacy-cli/e2e/setup/100-global-cli.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 import { getGlobalVariable } from '../utils/env';
 import { exec, silentNpm } from '../utils/process';
 
-const packages = require('../../../../lib/packages').packages;
-
 export default async function() {
   const argv = getGlobalVariable('argv');
   if (argv.noglobal) {
@@ -10,7 +8,12 @@ export default async function() {
   }
 
   // Install global Angular CLI.
-  await silentNpm('install', '-g', packages['@angular/cli'].tar);
+  await silentNpm(
+    'install',
+    '--global',
+    '@angular/cli',
+    '--registry=http://localhost:4873',
+  );
 
   try {
     await exec(process.platform.startsWith('win') ? 'where' : 'which', 'ng');
diff --git a/tests/legacy-cli/e2e/utils/project.ts b/tests/legacy-cli/e2e/utils/project.ts
index 7960614d06b5..789ce4eab3f3 100644
--- a/tests/legacy-cli/e2e/utils/project.ts
+++ b/tests/legacy-cli/e2e/utils/project.ts
@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@ import { execAndWaitForOutputToMatch, npm, silentNpm, ng, git } from './process'
 import { getGlobalVariable } from './env';
 import { gitCommit } from './git';
 import { prerelease } from 'semver';
-
-const packages = require('../../../../lib/packages').packages;
+import { packages } from '../../../../lib/packages';
 
 
 const tsConfigPath = 'tsconfig.json';
@@ -35,7 +34,7 @@ export function ngServe(...args: string[]) {
 
 
 export async function createProject(name: string, ...args: string[]) {
-  const argv: any = getGlobalVariable('argv');
+  const argv: string[] = getGlobalVariable('argv');
   const extraArgs = [];
 
   if (argv['ivy']) {
@@ -49,9 +48,7 @@ export async function createProject(name: string, ...args: string[]) {
 }
 
 export async function prepareProjectForE2e(name) {
-  const argv: string[] = getGlobalVariable(
-    'argv',
-  );
+  const argv: string[] = getGlobalVariable('argv');
 
   await git(
     'config',
@@ -68,7 +65,7 @@ export async function prepareProjectForE2e(name) {
     'commit.gpgSign',
     'false',
   );
-  await useBuiltPackages();
+
   await useCIChrome(
     'e2e',
   );
@@ -81,26 +78,13 @@ export async function prepareProjectForE2e(name) {
     'src',
   );
 
-  await useDevKitSnapshots();
-  (await argv[
-    'ng2'
-  ])
-    ? useNg2()
-    : Promise.resolve();
-  (await argv[
-    'ng4'
-  ])
-    ? useNg4()
-    : Promise.resolve();
-  (await argv[
-    'ng-snapshots'
-  ]) ||
-    argv[
-    'ng-tag'
-    ]
-    ? useSha()
-    : Promise.resolve();
-  await console.log(
+  if (argv['ng-snapshots'] || argv['ng-tag']) {
+    await useSha();
+  } else {
+    await writeFile('.npmrc', 'registry=http://localhost:4873');
+  }
+
+  console.log(
     `Project ${name} created... Installing npm.`,
   );
   await silentNpm(
@@ -126,44 +110,6 @@ export async function prepareProjectForE2e(name) {
   );
 }
 
-
-export function useDevKit(devkitRoot: string) {
-  return Promise.resolve()
-    .then(() => {
-      // Load the packages info for devkit.
-      const devkitPackages = require(devkitRoot + '/lib/packages').packages;
-
-      return updateJsonFile('package.json', json => {
-        if (!json['dependencies']) {
-          json['dependencies'] = {};
-        }
-        if (!json['devDependencies']) {
-          json['devDependencies'] = {};
-        }
-
-        for (const packageName of Object.keys(devkitPackages)) {
-          if (json['dependencies'].hasOwnProperty(packageName)) {
-            json['dependencies'][packageName] = devkitPackages[packageName].tar;
-          } else if (json['devDependencies'].hasOwnProperty(packageName)) {
-            json['devDependencies'][packageName] = devkitPackages[packageName].tar;
-          }
-        }
-      });
-    });
-}
-
-export function useDevKitSnapshots() {
-  return updateJsonFile('package.json', json => {
-    // TODO: actually add these.
-    // These were not working on any test that ran `npm i`.
-    // json['devDependencies']['@angular-devkit/build-angular'] =
-    //   'github:angular/angular-devkit-build-angular-builds';
-    // // By adding build-ng-packagr preemptively, adding a lib will not update it.
-    // json['devDependencies']['@angular-devkit/build-ng-packagr'] =
-    //   'github:angular/angular-devkit-build-ng-packagr-builds';
-  });
-}
-
 export function useBuiltPackages() {
   return Promise.resolve()
     .then(() => updateJsonFile('package.json', json => {
@@ -344,160 +290,6 @@ export function useCIChrome(projectDir: string) {
     });
 }
 
-// Convert a Angular 5 project to Angular 2.
-export function useNg2() {
-  const ng2Deps: any = {
-    'dependencies': {
-      '@angular/common': '^2.4.0',
-      '@angular/compiler': '^2.4.0',
-      '@angular/core': '^2.4.0',
-      '@angular/forms': '^2.4.0',
-      '@angular/http': '^2.4.0',
-      '@angular/platform-browser': '^2.4.0',
-      '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic': '^2.4.0',
-      '@angular/router': '^3.4.0',
-      'zone.js': '^0.7.4'
-    },
-    'devDependencies': {
-      '@angular/compiler-cli': '^2.4.0',
-      '@types/jasmine': '~2.2.0',
-      '@types/jasminewd2': undefined,
-      'typescript': '~2.0.0'
-    }
-  };
-
-  const tsconfigAppJson: any = {
-    'compilerOptions': {
-      'sourceMap': true,
-      'declaration': false,
-      'moduleResolution': 'node',
-      'emitDecoratorMetadata': true,
-      'experimentalDecorators': true,
-      'target': 'es5',
-      'lib': [
-        'es2017',
-        'dom'
-      ],
-      'outDir': '../out-tsc/app',
-      'module': 'es2015',
-      'baseUrl': '',
-      'types': []
-    },
-    'exclude': [
-      'test.ts',
-      '**/*.spec.ts'
-    ]
-  };
-
-  const tsconfigSpecJson: any = {
-    'compilerOptions': {
-      'sourceMap': true,
-      'declaration': false,
-      'moduleResolution': 'node',
-      'emitDecoratorMetadata': true,
-      'experimentalDecorators': true,
-      'lib': [
-        'es2017',
-        'dom'
-      ],
-      'outDir': '../out-tsc/spec',
-      'module': 'commonjs',
-      'target': 'es5',
-      'baseUrl': '',
-      'types': [
-        'jasmine',
-        'node'
-      ]
-    },
-    'files': [
-      'test.ts'
-    ],
-    'include': [
-      '**/*.spec.ts',
-      '**/*.d.ts'
-    ]
-  };
-
-  const tsconfigE2eJson: any = {
-    'compilerOptions': {
-      'sourceMap': true,
-      'declaration': false,
-      'moduleResolution': 'node',
-      'emitDecoratorMetadata': true,
-      'experimentalDecorators': true,
-      'lib': [
-        'es2017'
-      ],
-      'outDir': '../out-tsc/e2e',
-      'module': 'commonjs',
-      'target': 'es5',
-      'types': [
-        'jasmine',
-        'node'
-      ]
-    }
-  };
-
-
-  return Promise.resolve()
-    .then(() => updateJsonFile('package.json', json => {
-      Object.keys(ng2Deps['dependencies']).forEach(pkgName => {
-        json['dependencies'][pkgName] = ng2Deps['dependencies'][pkgName];
-      });
-      Object.keys(ng2Deps['devDependencies']).forEach(pkgName => {
-        json['devDependencies'][pkgName] = ng2Deps['devDependencies'][pkgName];
-      });
-      console.log(JSON.stringify(json));
-    }))
-    .then(() => updateJsonFile('src/tsconfig.app.json', json =>
-      Object.assign(json, tsconfigAppJson)))
-    .then(() => updateJsonFile('src/tsconfig.spec.json', json =>
-      Object.assign(json, tsconfigSpecJson)))
-    .then(() => updateJsonFile('e2e/tsconfig.e2e.json', json =>
-      Object.assign(json, tsconfigE2eJson)))
-    .then(() => replaceInFile('src/test.ts', 'import \'zone.js/dist/zone-testing\';', `
-      import 'zone.js/dist/long-stack-trace-zone';
-      import 'zone.js/dist/proxy.js';
-      import 'zone.js/dist/sync-test';
-      import 'zone.js/dist/jasmine-patch';
-      import 'zone.js/dist/async-test';
-      import 'zone.js/dist/fake-async-test';
-    `));
-}
-
-// Convert a Angular 5 project to Angular 4.
-export function useNg4() {
-  const ng4Deps: any = {
-    'dependencies': {
-      '@angular/common': '^4.4.6',
-      '@angular/compiler': '^4.4.6',
-      '@angular/core': '^4.4.6',
-      '@angular/forms': '^4.4.6',
-      '@angular/http': '^4.4.6',
-      '@angular/platform-browser': '^4.4.6',
-      '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic': '^4.4.6',
-      '@angular/router': '^4.4.6',
-      'zone.js': '^0.8.14'
-    },
-    'devDependencies': {
-      '@angular/compiler-cli': '^4.4.6',
-      'typescript': '~2.3.3'
-    }
-  };
-
-
-  return Promise.resolve()
-    .then(() => updateJsonFile('package.json', json => {
-      Object.keys(ng4Deps['dependencies']).forEach(pkgName => {
-        json['dependencies'][pkgName] = ng4Deps['dependencies'][pkgName];
-      });
-      Object.keys(ng4Deps['devDependencies']).forEach(pkgName => {
-        json['devDependencies'][pkgName] = ng4Deps['devDependencies'][pkgName];
-      });
-      console.log(JSON.stringify(json));
-    }));
-}
-
 export async function isPrereleaseCli() {
   const angularCliPkgJson = JSON.parse(await readFile('node_modules/@angular/cli/package.json'));
   const pre = prerelease(angularCliPkgJson.version);
diff --git a/tests/legacy-cli/verdaccio.yaml b/tests/legacy-cli/verdaccio.yaml
index 1a3c825278c3..75ca0c10e257 100644
--- a/tests/legacy-cli/verdaccio.yaml
+++ b/tests/legacy-cli/verdaccio.yaml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ packages:
     access: $all
     publish: $all
 
-  '@ngtools/*':
+  '@ngtools/webpack':
     access: $all
     publish: $all