Option --no-registry seems deprecated or even non supported for ages, while --offline fixed the problem on install task.
Issue can be reproduced using: devtool add "npm://registry.npmjs.org;name=epoll;version=latest" bitbake epoll | DEBUG: Executing shell function do_install (...) | npm ERR! argv ".../node" ".../npm" "install" (...) "--production" "--no-registry" | npm ERR! node v6.11.0 | npm ERR! npm v3.10.10 | npm ERR! registry URL is required And also from log file ".../epoll/1.0.0-r0/npmpkg/npm-debug.log": silly mapToRegistry using default registry 41 silly mapToRegistry registry null 42 verbose stack AssertionError: registry URL is required 42 verbose stack at Conf.getCredentialsByURI (.../get-credentials-by-uri.js:8:3) More relevent insights: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/2568# Signed-off-by: Philippe Coval <philippe.co...@osg.samsung.com> --- meta/classes/npm.bbclass | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/meta/classes/npm.bbclass b/meta/classes/npm.bbclass index a69bedb..dfd1ffe 100644 --- a/meta/classes/npm.bbclass +++ b/meta/classes/npm.bbclass @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ npm_do_install() { # be created in this directory export HOME=${WORKDIR} mkdir -p ${NPM_INSTALLDIR}/ - npm install --prefix ${D}${prefix} -g --arch=${NPM_ARCH} --target_arch=${NPM_ARCH} --production --no-registry + npm install --prefix ${D}${prefix} -g --arch=${NPM_ARCH} --target_arch=${NPM_ARCH} --production --offline if [ -d ${D}${prefix}/etc ] ; then # This will be empty rmdir ${D}${prefix}/etc -- 1.9.1 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
