nodejs February 2017

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Source0 for nodejs modules
by Piotr Popieluch 03 Dec '18

03 Dec '18

The the Node.js guidelines say about Source0 [1]: "The canonical method for shipping most node modules is tarballs from the npm registry" and "This method [PP: tarbals from npm] should be preferred to using checkouts from git or automatically generated tarballs from GitHub." But I think that in following cases it would be better to use sources from the upstream project: 1) When the license is not included in NPM but is in upstream project. o Because we are not supposed to ship the license separate from the sources. 2) When the tests are not included. o In this case we need to download the sources from NPM and from upstream project, which seems redundant and a waste of work. 3) When NPM content is generated and source files are not in NPM. o This would mean to download sources from NPM and upstream project, delete the NPM sources in prep and generate the files again. Are there good reason to enforce the use of NPM sources which I am missing? What is your opinion? I would like to suggest to ad those three exceptions to the guidelines. Piotr [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Node.js?rd=Node.js/Packagers#Using…

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native modules in epel7 ftbfs
by Piotr Popieluch 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Last week the %{nodejs_arches} macro got updated in epel7 to add aarch64 architecture. I've decided to rebuild node and the native modules so we can start using the new arch. While at it I updated node from 6.9.4 to 6.9.5. Now I cannot get any of the native modules built. It seems they haven't been rebuild in years and are broken from at least the last update to 6.x. I tried to get them built again but there seem to be some issues with outdated versions of nan and node-gyp.. Is it forgotten to check/rebuild the native modules while updating to 6.x ? Does someone remember what was done in Fedora to get them working again?

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Updating nodejs-bytes
by Ben Rosser 19 Feb '17

19 Feb '17

Hello nodejs@, I'm currently, slowly, working on packaging quassel-webserver [1], a nodejs web application. It has a number of node dependencies that need to be gotten in Fedora (hence the "slowly"). I've currently hit a roadblock: nodejs-body-parser is needed by nodejs-libquassel (one of the dependencies). body-parser depends on nodejs-bytes version 2.4.0 [2]. We presently ship version *0.3.0*, which dates back to March 2014. Tests suggest that there's actual API changes between 0.3.0 and 2.4.0; attempting to %nodejs_fixdep the problem away caused body-parser's unit tests to fail. There is an open bug against our nodejs-bytes package to update it to a newer version that was filed by release-monitoring (back in 2014) [3], but the only action on the ticket has been additional bumps from release-monitoring as newer and newer versions have been released. Since the nodejs-sig group has commit rights on the package, I figured I'd first contact this list before doing anything else. Is there a reason we're shipping such an old version? Would it be possible for someone to look into updating it? Should I request commit rights myself? dnf repoquery --whatrequires "npm(bytes)" suggests its dependencies in Fedora are: > nodejs-compression-0:1.0.1-5.fc24.noarch > nodejs-connect-0:2.14.5-7.fc24.noarch > nodejs-morgan-0:1.0.0-5.fc24.noarch > nodejs-raw-body-0:1.1.4-4.fc24.noarch Thanks in advance! Ben Rosser [1] https://github.com/magne4000/quassel-webserver [2] https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser/blob/master/package.json [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1094697

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Node.js doesn't build with GCC 7
by Stephen Gallagher 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

Right now, we have a pretty serious problem with Node.js. It failed to rebuild during the mass-rebuild for Fedora 26 due to https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/10388 I'm trying to work with Node.js upstream to see if we can get it resolved quickly, but for the time being, Node doesn't build in Fedora 26. I'll keep the list updated on the situation.

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Node.js 6.9.5
by Stephen Gallagher 06 Feb '17

06 Feb '17

Zuzana, I noticed you built Node.js 6.9.5 for Fedora 25 but not for EPEL 7. I'm not bothering with EPEL 7 because there were no changes to Node itself in this release, only to the bundled copy of OpenSSL which we sanitize from the tarball. So, I don't think it's worth the effort of going through two weeks in Bodhi for a release that has no changes. Agree?

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