esy install: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined (Ubuntu)

[esy]

esy install: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined (Ubuntu)

[andreypopp]

Traceback originates from BS compiled esy-opam package.

[andreypopp]

UnixNode.getlogin returns undefined for root.

[andreypopp]

Fixed in [email protected] it can be installed as npm i -g esy@next at this time.

Also your Dockerfile seems to be missing apt-get install xz-utils.

[andreypopp]

Btw. apt-get install bzip2 is also missing from the Dockerfile. Currently we spawn tar process in esy-install as npm packages for tar/gzip/bzip2 weren't able all the variety of tarballs we have on opam. I

Regarding the docker workflow — don't you think that it's better to ship a preinstalled node_modules in docker image so you don't have to run installation in it? As I understand docker workflow is made for cross compilation here?

[IwanKaramazow]

Thanks for the quick fix!

don't you think that it's better to ship a preinstalled node_modules in docker image so you don't have to run installation in it
but I probably cannot ship a preinstalled node_modules from my mac to a linux docker container?I'm using docker for cross compilation