[CentOS-devel] nodejs version regression cs8 vs c8

Wed Aug 10 13:34:00 UTC 2022
Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden <ewoud+centos at kohlvanwijngaarden.nl>

On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 07:30:34AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 6:31 AM Leon Fauster via CentOS-devel
><centos-devel at centos.org> wrote:
>>
>> C8 has
>>
>> nodejs-10.24.0-1.module_el8.3.0+717+fa496f1d.x86_64
>>
>> CS8 has
>>
>> nodejs-10.23.1-1.module_el8.4.0+645+9ce14ba2
>>
>> should CentOS Stream 8's package version not be at least == C8?
>
>The nodejs:10 Application Stream was retired in April 2021 per
>https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhel-app-streams-life-cycle
>
>As CentOS Stream is the development space for the next minor release
>of RHEL, this ran into an awkward timing scenario.  The
>nodejs-10.24.0-1.module_el8.3.0+717+fa496f1d.x86_64 build is from an
>errata after the RHEL 8.3 release, but the release of RHEL 8.4 was in
>May 2021 which fell after the end of support for the nodejs:10 module.
>Nothing was ever intended to ship in RHEL 8.4 for nodejs:10, therefore
>CentOS Stream 8 has no newer builds to work with.
>
>In all cases, I would recommend migrating to a supported version of nodejs.

The awkward bit is that nodejs:10 is still marked as the default module 
in CS8, even though it's unsupported. This is not the only example since 
the same can be said for the redis:5 and maybe more.

Running `dnf install nodejs` on a fresh system gives you unsupported 
software.