Apologies for the re-send, but I typoed the epel-devel email address on the first try. On 09/13/2016 09:27 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > Yesterday, I built the latest upstream version of Node.js for EPEL 7 (this > version will be supported until 2019-04-01) > > I have added it to the buildroot overrides so that anyone can rebuild their npm > modules at will. This *is* an API/ABI-breaking upgrade, so some modules will > fail to function on this version. We don't know ahead of time which ones will do > so, except for binary modules. > > I am electing *not* to build in a side-tag for this. Many of the noarch packages > will just work (or they won't, and a rebuild wouldn't help us detect this). I am > therefore putting out a request to anyone using nodejs-* packages in EPEL to > please install nodejs from epel-testing[2] and help us find any issues before > October. > > If you maintain a nodejs-* package in EPEL, please test that it continues to > work with Node.js 6.x. If it does not, please update it and build it in Koji. If > the update is compatible with 0.10.x, feel free to submit it to Bodhi; if it is > not (or you simply want to push them all together), please notify me directly I > will add it to the Bodhi update for nodejs so that it goes stable at the same > time as the interpreter. > > > > Due to upstream terminating support for 0.10.x on 2016-10-01, we *will* be > cutting over to 6.x on or around that date, so this testing request is > time-sensitive. > > > [1] There's a long story behind this, but the short version is that the bundling > style of npm makes it basically impossible to maintain, as even bugfix releases > result in a huge tangled mess of dependencies. It is infeasible to keep up with > bugfix and security updates. Node.js upstream is highly responsible and > responsive about security issues, so we considered it an acceptable risk to > bundle npm with the main package. > > [2] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/nodejs-sig/nodejs-epel/ also has > it, if your epel-testing mirrors don't have it yet.
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