Re: F38 proposal: Node.js Repackaging (Self-Contained Change proposal)

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On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 7:07 PM Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden
<ewoud+fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 02:28:39PM -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
> >== Benefit to Fedora ==
> >=== Packager Benefits ===
> >* No more modules to maintain.
> >* Availability of multiple Node.js versions in the buildroot means
> >that other `nodejs-*` packages can test against multiple supported
> >options.
> >
> >== Scope ==
> >* Other developers:
> >There should be no need to change any dependent packages, though
> >packagers of Node.js software may wish to take advantage of the
> >testing opportunities afforded.
>
> How would I, as a packager, deal with this? Will RPM macros be changed?
> Should we start to build nodejs-XY-$package similar to how we have
> python3-$package (and previously python2-$package) from the source
> package python-$package?

The only case where you might need to do this is if you're building an
extension module that needs to be an arch-ful package. For the vast
majority of Node modules, they are noarch.

> What will the new RPM provides be? today it's simply npm($package) but I
> can imagine you want to change that to something versioned too.

See above; I don't think that will be needed in the vast majority of cases.
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