On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 6:31 AM Ben Rosser <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 10:56 AM Tom Hughes via nodejs
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On 21/07/2020 15:39, Troy Dawson wrote:
> >
> > > Problem2: Many of the bundled libraries are archful, meaning they need
> > > to be compiled.  What if an essential nodejs library was originally a
> > > noarch?
> > > Solution2: All bundled nodejs library packages will be treached as
> > > archful, meaning they will need to be built on each supported arch.
> >
> > I think "many" is stretching things.
> >
> > There were never more than about a dozen or so archful modules in
> > Fedora and most of them were not widely used.
> >
> > I suspect that archful modules are probably best kept packaged as
> > they are now mostly just because trying to build them as part of
> > a large bundled tree is going to be incredibly painful.
>
> I think this makes sense as well. Essentially, we should just say that
> archful nodejs modules are "essential" (in the words of the proposal)
> and therefore need to be packaged and shipped separately.
>
> I think a "npm2rpm" script would have to do a couple things-- does
> this sound about right?
>
> a) recursively parse package.json to get a list of all dependencies
> and tarballs, and use this to write out a list of Sources.
> b) for each package, also look at package.json to see what files need
> to be installed, and write out instructions for the %install section.
> c) generate a "License" field for the package and also install all the
> relevant licenses in %license.
>
> There should probably be a way to specify that a given dependency is
> not being bundled too, to stop the parser from descending into that
> dependency tree. I imagine that (at least during the transition to
> this and maybe afterwards, in the case of archful or essential
> modules) it would be very useful to have packages with a mixture of
> bundled and unbundled dependencies.
>
> Ben Rosser
>

You are both right.
Odd as it seems, I kept seeing nodejs-sqlite3 come up, which is archful.
I had never done a real search.
It turns out that the various packages I had been working on require
it, and only two other packages.

So ya, Ben, I like you idea.  I was looking at a very skewed view.

Troy
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