On 2021-08-16 17:50, Joonas Niilola wrote:
It'd help if you described the caveats that are to be expected.
I would say there are two:1. Apart from from what comes out on the latest even branch (I would strongly advise against packaging odd branches if you value your sanity, except possibly right before the release of the next even branch to make sure all the Gentoo-specific patches apply and do what they're supposed to do - which is what we did with v15/v16) in its early days, almost all the new versions of Node.js are security releases. This implies quite a lot of stabilisation requests to keep track of, many of which will not even have been completely resolved when a new security release comes out.
2. The test suite is somewhat fragile. Some tests dislike the Portage sandbox, some of the more recent ones fail if executed in an unprivileged container, once in a while you will run into a failure caused by a combination of configure settings / build flags upstream has not thought about (at least said upstream is reasonably friendly and swift to respond to reported issues if you give them all the technical details), and once in a while there WILL be some user-reported test failure which you will never manage to reproduce until it has magically gone away for the user themselves come next release.
-- Marecki
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