On 23/08/16 03:48, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Stephen Gallagher
<sgallagh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Let me (or open a rel-eng ticket) when you want a epel7-nodejs6 side
> tag to build it into. Will make it easier so you don't need to deal
> with a billion build overrides etc.
>
I'm not sure that will be strictly necessary; we figured out during the Fedora
process that once we moved to the bundled NPM, we only had about a dozen packages that
actually needed a rebuild to support Node.js 6.x (just the ones that build a native,
archful module).
But yes, I'll make sure to let you know if we decide it needs a side-tag.
Nodejs 6 bundles openssl 1.0.2.h, where RHEL/CentOS have a much older
version. That hasn't been an issue in Fedora; For CentOS, there is a
build for Node.js 4 in cbs, including a patch to unbundle openssl and to
make it work with the way older lib.
Unless we have a comparable patch (if possible) for Node version 6,
maybe we should stick with version 4?
Matthias