Re: nodejs: newer npm?

["Davis, Michael" <michael.davis@essvote.com>]

I am building for intel core2-32 with an nginx backend.  
I believe the layer exists to keep packages more closely aligned with the 
upstream project.  I personally use it for the current 6.x releases of nodejs.




On Wednesday, July 13, 2016 04:24:52 PM Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2016-07-13 15:29, Davis, Michael wrote:
> > I am currently using angular from a different meta layer.
> > https://github.com/imyller/meta-nodejs
> > It maintains newer versions of nodejs.
> > It might be something you want to try.
> 
> I have tried this and yes, the versions are newer, but my simple example
> still does not work :-(
> 
> What target/platform are you using?
> Any idea why there is a separate layer for something that is in a
> more mainstream (meta-oe) layer for the same things?
> 
> > On Wednesday, July 13, 2016 10:11:05 AM Gary Thomas wrote:
> >> On 2016-07-13 09:39, Gary Thomas wrote:
> >>> The current (at least 4.4.4) nodejs recipe also creates nodejs-npm
> >>> which is npm version 2.15.1.  I'm trying to run angularjs that needs
> >>> npm >= 3.3.x.  I've not yet tried the update to 4.4.5, so if this
> >>> fixes the issue just let me know.
> >>> 
> >>> What needs to be done to get a newer npm?
> >>> 
> >>> BTW, the current one segfaults when trying to install the
> >>> attached package file.
> >> 
> >> I have now tried nodejs-4.4.5 which has npm-2.15.5  It no longer
> >> segfaults on the install step, but it doesn't really work :-(
> >> Any access just returns 'Cannot GET /'
> >> 
> >> Anyone have suggestions on how I might debug this?  It's a known
> >> working (simple) application I got from
> >> https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/quickstart.html