Re: Guix and Cordova

[Daniel Pimentel <d4n1@openmailbox.org>]

On 2015-03-24 12:57, Thompson, David wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Daniel Pimentel <d4n1@openmailbox.org> 
> wrote:
>> Hi Guix, I installed NodeJs (node-0.12.0) that contain NPM 
>> (npm-2.5.1), so I
>> tried install cordova in local profile (npm install cordova), but 
>> there's
>> error when try execute cordova local binary 
>> (node_modules/.bin/cordova):
>> bash: ./cordova: /usr/bin/env: bad interpreter: No such file or 
>> directory
> 
> GuixSD doesn't have a /usr/bin/env script, nor a /usr/bin directory.
> Cordova shouldn't make this assumption.  If Cordova was built using
> Guix, we could easily patch this shebang to refer to the version of
> node that it was built with.  In the short-term, you should just patch
> the script yourself and move on.  In the long term, the correct
> solution is to package all of the nodejs libraries that Cordova needs
> and make it a first-class Guix package.  Adding a nodejs build system
> is the first step, and adding npm support to 'guix import' will
> greatly simplify the task of writing node packages.  Are you
> interested in helping out with this?
> 
>> I tried global install (npm install -g cordova), but there're errors 
>> too:
>> 
>> 62 error   fstream_path:
>> '/gnu/store/drs76938m19bdi98zjmpvw7i2fxv6gyr-node-0.12.0/lib/node_modules/cordova',
>> 62 error   fstream_class: 'DirWriter',
>> 62 error   fstream_stack:
>> 62 error    [
>> '/gnu/store/drs76938m19bdi98zjmpvw7i2fxv6gyr-node-0.12.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:36:23',
>> 62 error
>> '/gnu/store/drs76938m19bdi98zjmpvw7i2fxv6gyr-node-0.12.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:46:53',
>> 62 error      'FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:99:15)' ] }
>> 63 error Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.
>> 64 verbose exit [ -13, true ]
>> 65 verbose unbuild lib/node_modules/cordova
>> 66 verbose gentlyRm vacuuming
>> /gnu/store/drs76938m19bdi98zjmpvw7i2fxv6gyr-node-0.12.0/lib/node_modules/cordova
> 
> A global install doesn't work because it's trying to write files into
> the store like...
> 
> 
> /gnu/store/drs76938m19bdi98zjmpvw7i2fxv6gyr-node-0.12.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js
> 
> ...which is owned by root, so an unprivileged user cannot touch it.
> 
>> And as root with sudo (sudo npm install -g cordova):
>> 4 verbose stack     at Pipe.close (net.js:476:12)
>> 5 verbose cwd /home/dani/Desktop/development/node
>> 6 error Linux 3.18.9-gnu
>> 7 error argv
>> "/gnu/store/drs76938m19bdi98zjmpvw7i2fxv6gyr-node-0.12.0/bin/node"
>> "/home/dani/.guix-profile/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "cordova"
>> 8 error node v0.12.0
>> 9 error npm  v2.5.1
>> 10 error setuid user id does not exist
>> 11 error If you need help, you may report this error at:
>> 11 error     <http://github.com/npm/npm/issues>
>> 12 verbose exit [ 1, true ]
> 
> I'm not sure what's going on here, but the result, had this worked,
> would have been very bad.  You would corrupt your store entry for node
> with node module files. Not good.
> 
> I can't emphasize this point enough: GuixSD does not use the FHS[0],
> so you are bound to run into assumptions made by upstream software
> developers that are problematic on GuixSD.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
> 
> - Dave
Thanks Dave, I would like help it.
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Daniel Pimentel (d4n1)