Re: npm install, ports and poudriere

On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 11:30:09 +0900
Hiroo Ono (小野寛生) <hiroo.ono+freebsd@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I made a port of MongoDB Compass https://www.mongodb.com/docs/compass/current/ .
> As it is an electron app, I need to use "npm install" to build it.
> 
> npm install does not work without network connection, while poudriere
> allow network connection only at fetch time.
> As a result, I need to do bunch of things in fetch mode, and the
> Makefile became as attached. Is this acceptable as a port?
> If not, I need to rework the Makefile to do npm install at build time,
> but that makes the port not officially buildable I think. (though to
> each of us, there is ALLOW_NETWORKING_PACKAGES option in
> poudriere.conf)

Can editors/vscode be any hint? It's electron app, too.

 https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/editors/vscode


I'm not at all familiar with electron nor Node.js, but is there any
cache mechanism for npm that can store required files into before
install (at `make fetch` phase)? Does below be of any help?

 https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v7/commands/npm-cache


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