EPEL nodejs conflicting with nodejs-compat-symlinks

[andyshinn]

It looks like package nodejs-compat-symlinks from http://patches.fedorapeople.org/oldnode/ wants to create /usr/bin/node and /usr/include/node which appear to be provided by a new EPEL nodejs package (added in April?).

I wonder if the EPEL packages might be better to rely on for RHEL5/6 compatibility? I am using http://forge.puppetlabs.com/stahnma/epel on all of my nodes since it provides many RPMs I rely on.

[razorsedge]

EPEL 6 has recently released packages for node.js. There are no packages for EPEL 5 yet. I was considering switching the code over to use EPEL after doing some testing, but the lack in EPEL 5 gives me pause.

[muanis]

Is there any temporary workaround?

[lboynton]

Could we use EPEL for RHEL6 and continue to use http://patches.fedorapeople.org/oldnode/ for RHEL5?

[juniorsysadmin]

Using the EPEL package (with the right parameters) should now work. If not, feel free to raise a new issue.