Anyone reading this thread may also want to try https://github.com/stagas/npm-server
It's a much more minimalistic approach, its only function is to be able to install packages from a local dir. It will use the real npm registry to fetch foreign packages and run all other commands (publish etc). It's more of a development tool than an actual registry but it may be handy to some. 2013/8/2 pablo borrazas <[email protected]>: > Hi there, > > We have tried to install an npm local registry to improve our development > workflow taking advantage of this, but we had some issues. > > First, we have found that our linux CentOS 5 server installation was not > properly because it needs a lot of software updates, and we have to use at > least CentOs 6. > > We still are looking for a good solution to easely switch to our private > repos or global ones in order to install & publish the modules. > > Please, let us now of any update to this issue. > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Santiago Gimeno <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> 2013/8/2 Adam Crabtree <[email protected]> >>> >>> I can think of 3: >>> >>> 1. Semver. >>> >>> Pushing out a critical bug fix can be a liability if every project that >>> consumes that module, and all its parents must be updated. This is >>> exacerbated by node.js/npm's default behavior of deeply nested static >>> dependencies. >>> >>> 2. Private Forks of Public Modules >>> >>> Ability to publish private versions of public modules. Recently we wanted >>> a unique fix to forever-agent[1] which request depends upon. You could >>> achieve this via npm_shrinkwrap (I believe), but that would need to be done >>> on a per-project basis, whereas being able to publish a private forked >>> version, while still consuming the public request module is a little more >>> elegant because now everyone at your company who depends upon request, >>> doesn't need to remember to include an npm_shrinkwrap. >> >> >> I hadn't thought of these two and now I can see the advantages. >> >> Thanks for the thorough response! >> >> Cheers, >> >> Santi >> >> -- >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "nodejs" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
