npm run build fails: sponge missing

[derhuerst]

npm run build fails: sponge missing

[derhuerst]

Thanks for reporting this!

The "prerequisites" section of the readme doesn't mention that sponge from moreutils needs to be installed.

[dancesWithCycles]

You are very welcome!

Do you want do make this repository available to more people? The sponge command line instruction is not a standard tool and this way not available for anyone. I could imagine to substitute sponge with tee or with tee "$@" > /dev/null when you mind the pipe to standard output or even substitute sponge with a shell function my-sponge passing the data through a temporary file. What do you think?

[derhuerst]

I introduced the sponge call in 1b9be1f. The build had failed randomly (SQL syntax errors, weirdly enough 🤔), and I still don't know what the actually reason is.

But sponge buffers the entire SQL before it is read by psql, which circumvents the problem. Does tee actually do the same?

And: Is tee preinstalled on all platforms? Because if some users need to install a package anyways, then I prefer the tool intended for what I'm trying to achieve.

Defining a custom shell function would solve the issue, but a) I don't want to populate a temporary file, as berlin-gtfs-rt-server should work in read-only environments (e.g. containers), and b) I don't want to add more complexity to this repo when an existing tool solves the task cleanly.

[derhuerst]

Do you want do make this repository available to more people? The sponge command line instruction is not a standard tool and this way not available for anyone.

True, but I feel like people who can install (or get access to) Git, Node.js, PostgreSQL, PostGIS & wget will also be able to install sponge. Probably platforms without native package managers (e.g. Windows or macOS) are an exception to this, but I feel like berlin-gtfs-rt-server targets a fairly technical audience.

[derhuerst]

PostGraphile PostgreSQL user's password: <secret>
PostrREST PostgreSQL user's password: <secret>

This happens because gtfs-via-postgres@4 (a dependency of hafas-gtfs-rt-feed) prints the randomly generated passwords of the postgraphile (for Postgraphile) & postgrest/web_anon (for PostgREST) roles, even if the creation of these roles is disabled. TLDR: This is a bug I should fix in gtfs-via-postgres.