[OE-core] Fun with npm shrinkwrap

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2017-06-06 16:12, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On 06/06/2017 01:17 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> devtool add / recipetool create do not work properly /wrt shrinkwrap
>> when it comes to node-red-node-serialport. npm shrinkwrap finds a number
>> of extraneous packages and refuses to generate an output.
>>
>> There are various workarounds discussed in [1]. For me this seems to
>> work:
> 
> You forgot to include the actual [1] :)

Ah, sorry: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/4435

> 
>> But it may have unwanted side effects. So, what would be the proper way
>> to address this issue?
> 
> A few months ago we had a long, big discussion about how to support
> these kinds of language environments in a way that is sustainable (I
> personally do not think the current approach with npm is viable in the
> long term). Here's the initial couple of emails:
> 
> http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-architecture/2017-March/000480.html
> 
> 
> http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-architecture/2017-March/000481.html
> 

Yeah, good points. Probably this problem is also related to OE
reimplementing parts of the npm logic.

But I suppose those concepts won't materialize very soon, will they? I'm
also looking for a short-term solution, at least some reasonable tactic
to generate such recipes in the meantime. Is there something in that
thread I should dig into?

Jan

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