[yocto] Is it possible to upgrade Nodejs from 8 to 10 LTS?

[Stefano Cappa]

I tried to port the recipe to node 9.11.2 and I built it without errors
with yocto thud.
The same for both 10.*0.0* and 10*.4.0*.
Everything seems to be ok, but I still need to run these versions on a real
board, so I'll confirm the result in a couple of days.

However, when I try, for instance with either node 10.*15*.0, 10.*14.2* I
receive tons of warnings and the error *"out/Release/torque: Syntax error:
newline unexpected".*
Instead, with both 10.0.0, 10.4.0, I can build also without warnings.

*I still trying to understand the maximum version that I can build to try
to compare it. *
*I'll do some check and then I'll post the recipe with the new patch file
and the full log with the error (it's really huge) to ask help.*


Il giorno gio 10 gen 2019 alle ore 19:04 Stefano Cappa <
stefano.cappa.ks89 at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Thank u for the answer.
>
> The problem is that I'm not expert in this stuff and Nodejs is not
> something so easy to port like small softwares and so on. I think that
> Nodejs is more appropriate for advanced users.
> However, I'll try to do some other random experiments to understand how to
> port the recipe and eventually I'll post my progress here also if not fully
> working.
>
> Another suggestion to the open-embedded community is to create two
> recipes, one called nodejs and another one nodejs-lts. Generally speaking
> its easier to do smaller upgrades if made step by step. In this way it is
> possible to maintain the current lts and also the latest release (not lts).
> Probably the porting from the latest non lts to the next lts wil be simpler
> then skipping two versions in a single step. But these are only my
> suppositions. I never ported complex softwares like this in yocto, so I
> could say stupid things.
>
>
> Il gio 10 gen 2019, 12:00 Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin at gmail.com> ha
> scritto:
>
>> On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 22:34, Stefano Cappa <stefano.cappa.ks89 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > As explained here https://github.com/nodejs/Release, NodeJS 10 is the
>> current active LTS and NodeJS 8 is right now in "Maintenance" (from January
>> 2019).
>> >
>> > I saw that in master branch, Node has been updated from 8.12 to 8.14.
>> Is there an official scheduling to release NodeJS 10 in open-embedded, for
>> instance with yocto 2.7?
>>
>> In Yocto there is generally no official scheduling for version
>> updates. That work is basically all volunteer-driven, so you are
>> welcome to prepare the patches and send them for review and testing.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>
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