[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#850419: Bug#850419: Bug#850419: Local installation seems needed

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Bastien ROUCARIES
<roucaries.bastien at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> wrote:
>> Quoting Pirate Praveen (2017-01-06 17:12:29)
>>> Control: severity -1 important
>>>
>>> On വെള്ളി 06 ജനുവരി 2017 04:07 വൈകു, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>>> > Using grunt for node-sprintf-js I get
>>> >
>>> > Fatal error: Unable to find local grunt.
>>> >
>>> > If you're seeing this message, grunt hasn't been installed locally to
>>> > your project. For more information about installing and configuring grunt,
>>> > please see the Getting Started guide:
>>> >
>>> > http://gruntjs.com/getting-started
>>> >
>>> > Thus it unusable
>>> >
>>>
>>> This is the default behavior of grunt and the upstream is unwilling to
>>> change this behaviour. To use it for building packages in debian, you
>>> have to patch Gruntfile.js.
>>>
>>> Patches welcome to make grunt look for global tasks by default. You can
>>> see packages like node-fuzzaldrin-plus for the patch.
>>>
>>> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-javascript/node-fuzzaldrin-plus.git/tree/debian/patches/use-global-tasks.patch
>>
>> How about patching the error message, as an intermediary step?
>
> How about adding an option --global to make grunt global

And even better add a environment variable GRUNT_FLAGS to pass flag to grunt
>
>
>
>>
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