On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 10:26 AM Neal Gompa <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 10:19 AM Stephen Gallagher <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 2:39 PM Stephen Gallagher <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > I've just submitted a review request for separating out NPM into its > > > own package (again). This is being done for a couple reasons: > > > > > > 1) To get rid of the ridiculous release field and take advantage of > > > the %autorelease macro > > > 2) I'm planning to rework how the nodejs packages work to make > > > different versions parallel-installable (with the alternatives > > > infrastructure owning /usr/bin/node). I want to keep NPM in a common > > > location (/usr/lib/node_modules) so that it will work with whatever > > > Node is in use. > > > > I completely missed the most important reason: > > 3) EPEL 9 has announced that it will not support modules, so I want > > there to be some way (aside from the official RHEL releases) to get > > Node.js packages there. > > EPEL has said it *can't* support modules, not that it *won't*. There > is a very important distinction here.
Sorry, I was using "won't" in the sense of future tense, not in the sense of willingness. > Because the Module Build System > cannot build modules on top of remote modules, there's no way to > reliably and correctly produce modular content for EPEL on top of > modular RHEL content. > > Starting with Koji 1.28, it's possible to configure build tags to > enable modules: https://pagure.io/koji/issue/2483 > > However, MBS still lacks the ability to use this capability: > https://pagure.io/fm-orchestrator/issue/1653 > > Fix that, and EPEL can build layered modules. I believe it was more than that, though. It was also a matter of capacity. I've CCed Troy Dawson to speak more to that. I don't have the details handy. _______________________________________________ nodejs mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
