[yocto] Yocto and NPM issues

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 03/21/2018 03:54 PM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:

>> I'm attempting to package a npm-based js application into a Rocko 
>> image, and I'm having some issues. For testing I use the official poky 
>> repo and the meta-openembedded repo (for installing nodejs 8.4.0). I'm 
>> building for qemux86-64.
> 
> I know this is not an answer to your specific issues, but npm is a bit 
> of maintenance nightmare as its workflow (downloading random stuff off 
> the internet as an integral part of the build) clashes badly with how 
> bitbake, and embedded world in general handle builds. We've discussed 
> what to do about it, with no clear outcome, but we would like to have 
> something that doesn't require constant fixing and hacks:
> 
> http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-architecture/2017-March/000480.html 

Oh, and you might have more success using meta-nodejs, as it doesn't try 
to implement a custom fetcher, and just runs npm directly during the 
build. If you don't mind that that makes the build outcome essentially 
random from one invocation to the next.

https://github.com/imyller/meta-nodejs


Alex