Re: [OE-core] [poky][PATCH] Fix npm to use https rather than http

[Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>]

Hello Neil,

thank you for your patch.

On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 16:42:50 -0400
"Neil Horman" <nhorman@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hit this error while building nlf-native recently:
> {
>   "error": {
>     "summary": "URI malformed",
>     "detail": ""
>   }
> }
> 
> Some poking about led me to discover that:
> 1) The npm.py tool replaces npm:// with http://, not https://
> 2) Some versions of the npm tool don't handle 301 redirects properly,
>    choosing to display the above error instead when using the default
>    nodejs registry
> 
> It would be good to go fix npm to handle the redirect properly, but it
> seems like it would also be good to assume secure http when contacting a
> registry, hence, this patch
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@gmail.com>
> ---
>  bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/npm.py | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/npm.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/npm.py

Apparently you prepared this patch within the poky git repository. You
shouldn't do that, poky is an integration layer and should not be used
for bitbake development.

Since you want to patch bitbake, you should:
- clone the bitbake repository
- make your commit there
- send it to the bitbake mailing list.

Look at the README.md in the poky root directory for more info.

Thanks!

Best regards,
-- 
Luca Ceresoli, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com