On Sunday 09 December 2018 21:14:14 Valentin V. Bartenev wrote: > On Sunday, 9 December 2018 16:41:56 MSK Ralph Seichter wrote: > > Hello developer team. > > > > I am the maintainer of the NGINX Unit ebuild for Gentoo Linux, and > > currently I am struggling with colliding requirements of Unit's and > > Gentoo's build strategies. > > > > As you may know, the Gentoo way is to build everything from the source > > code, with only very few exceptions. If, for example, the user desires > > Python support in Unit, my ebuild ensures that this requirement is met > > before Unit's release tarball is even unpacked. > > > > NodeJS support is a different beast, because the existing Unit build > > method relies on node-gyp and npm to download and install dependencies > > during the build process. This fails, because Gentoo builds are executed > > in a sandbox environment that prohibits both network access and files > > being written outside the sandbox. Hence, "npm install --global ..." > > won't do. > > > > Is there a way I can modify the existing Unit build to comply with these > > restrictions? Everything required for the build must either already > > exist, or it must be downloaded by Gentoo before Unit's compile phase. > > Also, all required artefacts are recorded with a checksum when an ebuild > > is added to the Gentoo tree, so no "download whatever is the most recent > > version of XYZ". > > > > Your help is appreciated. > > Hi Ralph, > > Thank you for your effort. > > All the Node.js module dependencies are set in its package.json file: > http://hg.nginx.org/unit/file/tip/src/nodejs/unit-http/package.json > > There's just one: > > "dependencies": { > "node-addon-api": "1.2.0" > } > > and I'm not sure that it's needed at all, especially for Gentoo. > > I think you can just remove it. > > See also this overlay for some ideas: > https://github.com/msva/mva-overlay/tree/master/www-servers/nginx-unit > [..]
JFYI, the surplus dependency has been removed: http://hg.nginx.org/unit/rev/fd323ad9e24f So, now the Node.js module has no dependencies and npm doesn't download anything during installation. wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
