leafo
commented
7 years ago Hey, this is the issues tracker for the website of luarocks. You'll probably want to post here instead: https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks/issues
BTW, you might want to look into the rocks_provided configuration option, it lets you say which modules are already installed in the system, and luarocks will not try to install them.
thornley-touchstar
I want to throw an idea past the maintainers of luarocks.
I have been experimenting with luarocks and the openwrt/lede distribution. These embedded devices don't typically self-contain development/compilation environments and run arbitrary architectures, so compiling on the hardware is usually out of the question. Now the distribution comes with its own package management system (opkg) and I was thinking it might make sense to try and bridge the gap between the build root packaging system and luarocks.
Currently openwrt/lede has a bunch of lua packages like luasocket, dkjson, lua-rs232, etc these are installed in the LUA_PATH under /usr/lib/lua with no rockspecs so while the dependencies can exist for many lua rocks, they are not manifested, and hence not available or met.
I'm looking for suggestions but I was thinking of a means to use luarocks during opkg installation (if present) to install the rockspec correctly (just the manifest + rockspec structure in /usr/lib/luarocks/rocks) without actually installing or moving anything around.
Obviously any hints on how to go about this would be great, I'm very much interested in contributing!
:)