[Nix-dev] npm prepublish hook

[Shea Levy]

On 12/10/2013 09:16 AM, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:
>> maintaining a manual list, as unfortunate as that sounds. Hopefully this
>> will be fixed soon in most packages.
>>
>> For packages that are installed from a tarball (which is most), issues with
>> read-only paths shouldn't come up. If there's a common set of utilities
>> always expected in $PATH we may as well resign ourselves to adding those to
>> buildInputs unconditionally.
> The 2 cases I found are:
> bytebuffer-2.1.0:
>    bug in the package itself, wants to run hardcoded path
> ./node_modules/testjs/bin/testjs
>    but of course this path is not available in the (extracted) tarball.
> protobufjs:
>    runs tests like "test1 > tests/test1.out", which will fail because
> tests is not writable, so the issue _does_ come up.
Hmm, that first one could be fixed by running the npm install in $out 
since we've already set up the deps there. Not sure about the second 
one, I can't seem to find it in nixpkgs?