lang/nodejs lang/npm problems

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi, 

I tried to install some static site generator the other day and found a few problems with the above. This is all done on a fully updated pkgsrc-current on a NetBSD 10.99.1 (amd64) host and (using the same pkgsrc tree) on a Rocky Linux 9.1. They both seem to install lang/nodejs 19.2 OK. The NetBSD system fails to install lang/npm 8.15.1 because node refuses to make use of the ipv4 DNS resolution:
...

+ node . i --ignore-scripts --no-audit --no-fund
npm ERR! code EHOSTUNREACH
npm ERR! syscall connect
npm ERR! errno EHOSTUNREACH
npm ERR! request to https://registry.npmjs.org/tap/-/tap-16.3.0.tgz failed, reason: connect EHOSTUNREACH 2606:4700::6810:1923:443 - Local (:::65478)
...

If I install the latest npm on NetBSD using 

curl -qL https://www.npmjs.com/install.sh | sh

it fails the same way:


 npm -d ping                                                                                                                                                        130 ↵
npm info using npm@9.2.0
npm info using node@v19.2.0
npm notice PING https://registry.npmjs.org/
npm ERR! code EHOSTUNREACH
npm ERR! syscall connect
npm ERR! errno EHOSTUNREACH
npm ERR! request to https://registry.npmjs.org/-/ping?write=true failed, reason: connect EHOSTUNREACH 2606:4700::6810:1923:443 - Local (:::65444)

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2022-12-20T11_05_38_619Z-debug-0.log

This npm also appears to fail the same way even if invoked with --dns-result-order=ipv4first. My ISP doesn't support ipv6 yet; I thought this was a network issue, but a few other Linux vms with different nodejs/npm versions were working, so it didn't look like a network-level issue.

On the other hand, I can install lang/npm 8.15.1 on the Rocky Linux vm via pkgsrc, but it fails to run pointing to a missing module - one which is not required by npm 9.2:


 npm
node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:409
      const err = new Error(
                  ^

Error: Cannot find module '/usr/pkg/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/gauge/node_modules/aproba/index.js'. Please verify that the package.json has a valid "main" entry
    at tryPackage (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:409:19)
    at Module._findPath (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:651:18)
    at Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1025:27)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:885:27)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1105:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:103:18)                                                                                                                      at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/pkg/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/gauge/lib/render-template.js:3:16)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1218:14)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1272:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1081:32) {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  path: '/usr/pkg/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/gauge/node_modules/aproba/package.json',
  requestPath: 'aproba'
}

Node.js v19.2.0
...............

Finally, If I install npm 9.2.0 on the Linux system via the curl command above, it works just fine on the same network:


# nodejs --version
sh: nodejs: command not found
# node --version
v19.2.0
# which node
/usr/pkg/bin/node
# npm version
{
  npm: '9.2.0',
  node: '19.2.0',
  v8: '10.8.168.20-node.8',
  uv: '1.44.2',
  zlib: '1.2.13',
  brotli: '1.0.9',
  ares: '1.18.1',
  modules: '111',
  nghttp2: '1.51.0',
  napi: '8',
  llhttp: '8.1.0',
  openssl: '1.1.1s',
  cldr: '42.0',
  icu: '72.1',
  tz: '2022e',
  unicode: '15.0'
}
# npm ping
npm notice PING https://registry.npmjs.org/
npm notice PONG 336ms

.....................

Apologies for the not very clear explanation, but it appears there are two problems - npm 8.15.1 being not compatible with nodejs 19.2.0 and node 19.2.0 under NetBSD-current refusing to use the ipv4 dns records. At the moment npm appears unusable either way under NetBSD-current, whereas under Linux with pkgsrc, it works if the latest version is manually installed. 


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Chavdar Ivanov