Re: [bitbake-devel] Improving npm(sw) fetcher & integration within Bitbake

[Mike Crowe <mac@mcrowe.com>]

On Thursday 04 November 2021 at 14:09:42 +0100, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> To the best of my knowledge, no other companies at the moment are using
> Yocto to integrate npm-based items into a product.

We make light use of npm in the production of the rootfs for our products.
The upgrade to Dunfell was a bit painful, and the slowness is annoying too,
but I think that we've ended up with things being better in the end because
we can now be sure that all the sources are captured correctly.

We did run into a few bugs and some of our fixes for those have landed. The
npm fetcher seems to be fighting with the usual way that Bitbake expects
fetchers to work that I don't really understand enough (from either side)
to know how to fix. (e.g.
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14383 which doesn't
directly affect us, but the underlying cause meant that our usual method
for capture sources needed some extra workarounds.)

Mike.