Packaging NPM: Difference between revisions

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-* Ensure that node.js module is enabled.
+[[Category:Byzantium]]
-* Download npm: wget http://npmjs.org/install.sh
+* Ensure that [http://nodejs.org/ node.js] is installed and operable.
-* mv install.sh npm-install.sh
+** Note that it is necessary to install node.js and npm on the build system to build the packages.** Download the latest .tar.gz tarball of the node.js source code.
-* sh ./npm-install.sh (as root)
+** '''cd /tmp'''
-* Everything goes in /usr/lib/mode_modules/npm
+** '''tar xvfz /path/to/node-vx.y.z.tar.gz'''
-* /usr/bin/npm* symlinked to /usr/lib/mode_modules/npm/bin/npm.js
+** '''cd node-vx.y.z'''
+** '''./configure -p --prefix=/usr'''
+** '''make'''
+** '''make test'''
+** '''make install DESTDIR=/tmp/nodejs-vx.y.z'''
+** '''dir2xzm /tmp/nodejs-vx.y.z /tmp/node-x.y.z.xzm'''
+* Download the source to npm [https://github.com/isaacs/npm/zipball/master from Github].
+* '''unzip isaacs-npm-...zip'''
+* '''cd isaacs-npm-...'''
+* '''make'''
+* '''make install'''
+** '''mkdir -p /tmp/npm-x.y.z/usr'''
+** '''export npm_config_userconfig=./npmrc'''
+** '''node cli.js config set cache /tmp/npm-cache'''
+** '''node cli.js config set prefix /tmp/npm-x.y.z/usr'''
+** '''node cli.js config set unsafe-perm true'''
+** '''node cli.js install -g .'''
+** '''dir2xzm /tmp/npm-x.y.z /tmp/npm-x.y.z.xzm'''
+* Everything goes in ''/usr/lib/mode_modules/npm''.
+* ''/usr/bin/npm*'' are symlinked to ''/usr/lib/mode_modules/npm/bin/npm.js''.