packaging a port that uses npm during build.

[Adam Weinberger]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 5:17 AM Willem Jan Withagen <wjw at digiware.nl> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The ceph ports should have a manager module called dashboard that
> exists of a large bundle op JS-scripts that get installed with npm/node
> during running make on the configured build.
>
> Uptil now I've exclude that from builds, but that gets more and more
> complicated. Ceph cluster status is not reported not healty if the
> dashboard is not running....
>
> Apart from the fact that npm does not like to be ran as 'root',
> poudriere also complains about fetching data afte the fetch fase.
>
> There are about 1000 npm-modules included in this project.
> So that would be a large set of things to maintain correctly.
>
> Is there a way around this?
> Or does anybody here have experience with this?
>
> I think I read once somewhere that there is also a "flag" that indicates
> that the port wants network access during the build. Is that feasible?

Can the modules be installed after installation? As in, does a
package.json get installed somewhere? If so, I'd put the `npm install`
instructions in pkg-message.

The flag you're talking about has to go in poudriere.conf, so it
wouldn't be able to help much here. It's for local control.

# Adam


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