[Buildbot-devel] Questions on buildbot_www package (nine branch)

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Andrii Senkovych
<jolly_roger at itblog.org.ua> wrote:
>  * it tends to satisfy all build-dependencies system-wide

I wouldn't think of the NPM requirements as "build dependencies".  In
fact, having e.g., ui-router installed systemwide might not help, as
we need it installed within the buildbot-www build directories.  I can
see that the practice of downloading these packages from npm at build
time will be problematic, though!  I see that Pierre has suggested the
opposite.  Barring known solutions to this sort of problem in the
Debian world, I think you'll have to compromise on #1 or #2.

>  * it requires all packages to be built from source

Which means, from your description, that the concatenated and minified
JS from the sdist tarball isn't adequate.  I suppose that means that
the orig.tar.gz is the Buildbot git repository, rather than anything
generated by python setup.py.

>  * it has /usr/bin/nodejs instead of /usr/bin/node

Depending on node-legacy is one fix here.  Note, thought, that the
only system binary that setup.py invokes is 'npm', which is already
packaged and presumably patched to refer to nodejs.

Dustin