Unless I interpret it wrong, you're saying that we actually need some flexibility in what /usr/bin/node means, which is the same thing I'm saying. Of course, the implementation of how to achieve this might change.
Honza On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 4:34 PM Michael Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > My concern is the customer use case. They have installed a third party > application which will be expecting to use the name "node" versus one that > is tied to the version. We want them to be able to easily use versions > which are not the default because the default Node.js for a RHEL release > will be EOL long before the version of RHEL is. > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 3:42 AM Honza Horak <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sure. My current use case is preparing a nodejs v20 container image >> similar to previous versions at [1]. I want to use the latest stable fedora >> and explicitly want only nodejs v20 in the container (which is not the >> default one in F38). >> >> I also want to install nodejs-nodemon into the container to make the >> feature set to be on pair with previous versions, but that ends up with >> pulling nodejs 18 (the default) as well, because of the dependency on >> /usr/bin/node. >> >> Having different versions of packages like nodejs-nodemon in Fedora repos >> does not seem to be technically needed, one RPM build seems to be fine for >> more nodejs versions. I believe we did it the same in previous design with >> modules -- we only installed nodejs and npm from the module, but had >> nodejs-nodemon available in the repos in a single instance and it worked >> fine with all nodejs versions. >> >> Does that make more sense now? Maybe I'm trying to solve it too >> complicated, feel free to suggest any other solution. >> >> [1] https://github.com/sclorg/s2i-nodejs-container/ >> >> Honza >> >> On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 7:27 PM Stephen Gallagher <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 11:19 AM Honza Horak <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> > The current implementation of alternative nodejs versions in a single >>> Fedora (say 38), is this: >>> > * the main version (v18 in F38) ships /usr/bin/node >>> > * alternative versions ship only /usr/bin/node-XX >>> > >>> > Node modules packaged as RPM (e.g. nodejs-nodemon) then often include >>> this hard dependency: Requires: /usr/bin/node >>> > >>> > Suppose I want to install only the alternative (non-default) version >>> of node and install a module nodejs-nodemon (that can run fine with any >>> nodejs version). I cannot do this at this point, because the nodejs-nodemon >>> pulls in the default node as a dependency. >>> >>> I think you need to be more explicit about why you want to only >>> install a non-default version AND run this tool. This is very much >>> part of the design: applications packaged in Fedora RPMs are not >>> expected to be runnable against an arbitrary Node binary. They specify >>> the one they are known to work with explicitly through package >>> dependencies. >>> >>> What is the use-case you're actually trying to solve? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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, report it: >>> https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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, report it: >> https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >> > _______________________________________________ > 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, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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