[CentOS-devel] nodejs version regression cs8 vs c8

Wed Aug 10 15:44:09 UTC 2022
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 8/10/22 06:30, 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

Since this is EOL, it may not matter, but I could just publish this 
version in CentOS Stream 8 as well.. since it is already built and 
released.  But people probably should not be using it anyway.

Thoughts?

>>
>> 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.
> 
> josh

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes