[OE-core] Broken NPM builds

[Davis, Michael]

My recipe was just an autogenerated recipe from devtool.  
I pull this grunt recipe out of the mailing list as one that worked previously and it has the same issue.

SUMMARY = "Grunt.js command line wrapper"
HOMEPAGE = "http://gruntjs.com/"
SECTION = "js/devel"
LICENSE = "MIT"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README.md;md5=a24cc788ab726e615aa5bf0168c5d77d"
SRC_URI = "npm://registry.npmjs.org;name=${PN};version=${PV}"                                                                                                                  
inherit npm

The 6% recipe has the same problem on master, but works fine in morty.  I can post it as a patch after I can fully test it again.

The external meta-nodejs layer is not compatible with the npm.bbclass fetcher.  I have a patch in to fix that, but I am waiting for it to be integrated.


-----Original Message-----
From: Trevor Woerner [mailto:twoerner at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 2:28 PM
To: Davis, Michael
Cc: openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org; ilkka.myller at nodefield.com
Subject: Re: [OE-core] Broken NPM builds

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?