Re: Guidance on creating a port for an npm installed tool

Hi,

> Am 09.06.2023 um 20:15 schrieb Moin Rahman <bofh@FreeBSD.org>:
> There is no specific guidelines but so far what have been most useful
> is you install the package and then install the npm deps. After that
> create a tarball of the npm deps installed and add it as a DISTFILE.

So I create my own binary archive from the result of "npm install" or
"npm run setup" or similar?

That does not feel right. How will the user know that my tar archive
is authentic?

> One another approach is just install the dist with node as a RUN_DEPEND
> and ask user to install it through a pkg-message.

Neither does this. So the state of npm based installation is that is
in a mess? I'm not blaming FreeBSD or the ports system here :-)

What a way to distribute software.

Your second suggestion is btw out of the question because we
build packages in poudriere and from these build immutable
read-only base images for our jails.

*sigh*

Thanks for your insight.
Patrick
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