Re: [IBMiOSS] Installing Node vx with yum

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

I used yum to install v8 into /QOpenSys/node/v8 and it seems to have worked
fine  Haven't tested with apps yet but it sure will make it easier to get
new versions..



On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 1:18 PM, Kevin Adler <kadler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>    Yep, we certainly have to analyze the situation once we get there. For
> now
>    though, we only have one version of Node shipped via rpm/yum so there's
> no
>    conflicts. It certainly doesn't conflict with the OPS versions of Node
> at
>    all, so it's safe to install outside of a chroot.
>
>    Kevin Adler
>    Software Development - PASE, Open Source, IBM i Access ODBC
>
>
>      ----- Original message -----
>      From: Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
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>      Subject: Re: [IBMiOSS] Installing Node vx with yum
>      Date: Mon, Mar 19, 2018 1:07 PM
>
>      Kevin,
>
>      Upgrade in place?  I've tried that with previous versions, it doesn't
>      work.  I wouldn't want to do that.  Sure, it "may" work, but from my
>      experience you're asking for problems especially with all the
>      dependencies
>      that each shop/project could have.
>
>      I'd personally rather have it so they are placed in their own
>      directories
>      for versions.  That's just me, though.  And I would try chroot but
> it's
>      obviously not working for me.  So that's another dependency I have to
>      worry
>      about.
>
>      On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 1:00 PM, Kevin Adler <kadler@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>      >    Brad, we haven't decided how we'll do version upgrades with node
> at
>      the
>      >    moment. It could be that when we get to the next LTS version of
>      Node.js
>      >    (v10, presumably), we'll migrate to separate node8 and node10
>      packages
>      > or
>      >    just upgrade node in-place (possibly in its own repository) or
>      something
>      >    else. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it, but the nice
> thing
>      is
>      >    that yum/rpm has nice mechanisms to make the migration (if any)
>      easy.
>      >
>      >    Kevin Adler
>      >    Software Development - PASE, Open Source, IBM i Access ODBC
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >      ----- Original message -----
>      >      From: Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
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>      >      To: IBMi Open Source Roundtable <opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>      >      Cc:
>      >      Subject: Re: [IBMiOSS] Installing Node vx with yum
>      >      Date: Mon, Mar 19, 2018 7:40 AM
>      >
>      >      weird.. I didn't see those listed in the available packages.
>      thanks..
>      >
>      >      How about versioning... what's the best way to keep them
> separate
>      > using
>      >      this method?
>      >
>      >      Bradley V. Stone
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