Bug 10517

Summary: npm packaging does not create executable for application module
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Henry Bruce <henry.bruce>
Component: devtools / tool chainAssignee: Paul Eggleton <bluelightning>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Undecided CC: meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher
Version: 2.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
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OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Yes (doc changes required)

Description Henry Bruce 2016-10-28 00:42:53 UTC 
If you have an npm application module called say "my-node-app", when running "npm install my-node-app" a link to usr/bin/my-node-app is created. 
i.e. /usr/bin/my-node-app -> /usr/lib/node_modules/my-node-app/my-node-app.js

However devtool does not create this link when packaging the module so it cannot be run as 'my-node-app' and instead it must be started as 
node usr/lib/node_modules/my-node-app/my-node-app.js
Comment 1 Paul Eggleton 2016-10-28 02:12:49 UTC 
Duplicate of bug 10460 (which I have a patch for, I just haven't sent it yet).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10460 ***