[CentOS-devel] nodejs version regression cs8 vs c8

Wed Aug 10 14:04:09 UTC 2022
Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>

On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 9:34 AM Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden
<ewoud+centos at kohlvanwijngaarden.nl> wrote:
>
> 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.

Yes, that is indeed awkward, but it is also by design.  This is one of
the things we learned and adjusted in RHEL 9/CentOS Stream 9.

josh

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