[OE-core] Broken NPM builds

[Trevor Woerner]

On Wed 2017-04-26 @ 04:01:20 PM, Davis, Michael wrote:
> I have a simple grunt-cli recipe using inherit npm.
> On master branch it appears to be broken and unable to find the registry.  Same recipe on Morty branch works fine.
> I looked through the mailing list and didn't see anyone else seeing this issue.

There's been quite a bit of churn on master this cycle, it's not too
surprising master is struggling. Any chance you can share your recipe; or a
stripped-down, "example.com" version of your recipe so others can take a look?

> On a related side note I have recipes working for node 6.10.2.

You have a grunt-cli recipe working on master with node 6%?

> Is there a reason we are staying on the 4.x series now that 6 is LTS?

I'm guessing nobody got around to noticing the switch. I guess we could
cherry-pick node-6% from
https://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/layer/meta-nodejs/

Ideally we'd either merge all/most of
https://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/layer/meta-nodejs/
into oecore, or remove what's in oecore and tell people to use the external
layer. Why does oe-core have some, but not all, node support?