redguide/nodejs

Chef cookbook for nodejs

Graham Weldon

@predominant

Barthélemy Vessemont

@BarthV

but is it really a nodejs cookbook issue rather than a npm one ?

this is a npm install log output

maybe this npm version was not "https" patched yet ><

I will try to reproduce & find out what's really happening

Graham Weldon

@predominant

Its more of an "FYI" - If you're going to use those packages, they're going to fail.

Barthélemy Vessemont

@BarthV

okok :)

Graham Weldon

@predominant

Barthélemy Vessemont

@BarthV

thank for this information anyway :)

Graham Weldon

@predominant

Yeah, not sure if its helpful.. but useful to know eh?

Selvam Palanimalai

@chartotu19

hey guys, I am trying to use this cookbook in AWS opswork. I constantly run into "No such cookbook: yum-epel" . I am using an ubuntu 14.04 machine.

Selvam Palanimalai

@chartotu19

figured it , Berkfile option was turned off on the opswork stack :-/

Chris W

@cp5w

Hey guys, I'm having some issues installing npm packages globally, where they install, but oddly it doesn't create an executable in any of the default paths. As a result, local installations fail because bash says command not found. Has anyone come across this? For now I'm having to manually create symlinks to fix it - but this doesnt seem right for a self-contained cookbook

Barthélemy Vessemont

@BarthV

hi @cp5w . I saw your issue on GH. I'll take 5 min (but no more today ;o .. it's sunday) to test that and reply to you

Chris W

@cp5w

Haha thanks @BarthV no I don't expect everyone to be around on Sunday!

Chris W

@cp5w

@BarthV that wasn't 5 min! Much appreciated. I've posted my current workaround if others come across this issue.

Barthélemy Vessemont

@BarthV

I was busy @home :)

We'll discuss again for managing this kind of "generic" symlink

but it seems really specific to each app/ needs

Chris W

@cp5w

For sure

I'll refactor my work around at some point to try and be more generic

Andreas Lappe

@alappe

Hey,

when using the cookbook with chef 12.5.1, it explodes into my face with undefined methodlog_deprecation' for class Class' (more: https://gist.github.com/alappe/84ed444400e741c70877)

Barthélemy Vessemont

@BarthV

12.5 brings many changes in custom resources management and internal API

I had to delay the migration in my company

I will take a look into that issue

Andreas Lappe

@alappe

Deeply appreciated!

I'd love to help you with a PR but I can't seem to understand what the issue is… To me it seems he's trying to log the deprecated method in your recipe, but failing even that… :-/

Barthélemy Vessemont

@BarthV

Is is possible for you to rollback to 12.4.3 ?

Andreas Lappe

@alappe

I thought about it, but I think I'll stick with 12.5.1 for now. I'm trying to deprecate my usage of the nodejs cookbook my wrapping the node stuff in docker. On dev, it'd be nice to have the nodejs though

Barthélemy Vessemont

@BarthV

I understand

Andreas Lappe

@alappe

I mostly wanted to report the issue and check if the problem exists between keyboard and chair… :)

Barthélemy Vessemont

@BarthV

I find some time for this

Andreas Lappe

@alappe

Thank you!

idriskas

@idriskas

hello

idriskas

@idriskas

Rafael Pólit

@RafaPolit

Good afternoon. I'm very new to Chef and cookbooks. Is there a way to install a particular version of node with this recipe? I require a forced version in order to have all our clients 'in sync' no matter when the recipe is run. I need that if a recipe is run a month from now it install the exact same version as it did a month ago. Can this be achieved? Thanks in advance.

nullck

@nullck

Hey RafaPolit, You can do it, just use the attribute "nodejs_install_method": "binary" like this:
"nodejs_install_method": "binary",
"nodejs_version": "0.12.7",
"nodejs_checksum": "cb2ba2e004fc03f634e56618194e4c2c025cfe22"

You can get the version and the package checksum in the nodejs.org
https://nodejs.org/en/download/releases/

I hope that this information helps you.

Rafael Pólit

@RafaPolit

Thanks for the answer. I am really new here, sorry if this is really obvious, just getting my feet wet with all this and a bit over my head for the time being. So... I have set the following in my install_node.rb recipe:

node.default['nodejs']['install_method'] = 'binary'
node.default['nodejs']['nodejs_version'] = '4.2.6'

include_recipe 'nodejs'

As far as I can tell, nodejs is being installed from binary, so the install_method is working as expected. But its installing v0.10.26. Don't know why. This is the log of the corresponding section:

Recipe: nodejs::nodejs_from_binary

     * ark[nodejs-binary] action install
       * directory[/usr/local/nodejs-binary-0.10.26] action create
         - create new directory /usr/local/nodejs-binary-0.10.26
       * remote_file[/tmp/kitchen/cache/nodejs-binary-0.10.26.tar.gz] action create
         - create new file /tmp/kitchen/cache/nodejs-binary-0.10.26.tar.gz
         - update content in file /tmp/kitchen/cache/nodejs-binary-0.10.26.tar.gz from none to 305bf2
         (new content is binary, diff output suppressed)

nullck

@nullck

try to set the node.default['nodejs']['binary']['checksum'] parameter,
in your case:
node.default['nodejs']['binary']['checksum'] = '919498f2eb855ef0468b428b97d9d3f604d0f83417502d65b98c136786eb94d5'

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v4.2.6/

Rafael Pólit

@RafaPolit

Thanks for the feedback. I checked and my mistake was two fold: first the checksum as you pointed out, and second the second array parameter should just be 'version' not 'nodejs_version', you were right on your syntax but on my approach I copy pasted to the different syntax the wrong parameter. Thanks for the help, things are now working as expected (at least in the kitchen).

nodecraic

@webworkio

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TheNotary

@TheNotary

if I install nodejs_from_binary via chef, how can I reverse that process afterwords?

Jared Kofron

@kofron

is there a way to access the path to the node install directory e.g. node.default['nodejs']['path'] or similar? i'm trying to resolve what I should set NODE_PATH to in a template without hard-coding it.

rahpuser

@rahpuser

for the binary

yes

I think

process.env._ and process.execPath

returns where is node

Mark Keisler

@grimm26

is there any active support/dev on this cookbook?

clark williamson

@clarklwilliamson

There are some open PR's that people have been working on

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