On 2021-08-16 17:50, Joonas Niilola wrote:
It'd help if you described the caveats that are to be expected.
I would say there are two:
1. Apart from from what comes out on the latest even branch (I would
strongly advise against packaging odd branches if you value your sanity,
except possibly right before the release of the next even branch to make
sure all the Gentoo-specific patches apply and do what they're supposed
to do - which is what we did with v15/v16) in its early days, almost all
the new versions of Node.js are security releases. This implies quite a
lot of stabilisation requests to keep track of, many of which will not
even have been completely resolved when a new security release comes out.
2. The test suite is somewhat fragile. Some tests dislike the Portage
sandbox, some of the more recent ones fail if executed in an
unprivileged container, once in a while you will run into a failure
caused by a combination of configure settings / build flags upstream has
not thought about (at least said upstream is reasonably friendly and
swift to respond to reported issues if you give them all the technical
details), and once in a while there WILL be some user-reported test
failure which you will never manage to reproduce until it has magically
gone away for the user themselves come next release.
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Marecki
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