[New] nvm-exec: allow nvm-exec to be linked into individual .nvm directories for system-wide installs with a localized Nodes.

Let's say we have nvm installed in a separate mount, /.socket. NVM_DIR is $HOME/.nvm in /etc/profile.d/nvm.sh. With this setup, users can install Node versions to their home directories without each installing nvm.

nvm install --lts

This works fine as does nvm use --lts. When nvm exec is used though, it fails because it looks for nvm-exec in $NVM_DIR. First fix is to look for nvm-exec in $NVM_DIR. If NVM_DIR does not contain nvm-exec, check $BASH_SOURCE[0]. The second fix is to follow nvm-exec if a symbolic link to determine the proper location of nvm's home. Alternatively we could use a second environment variable, NVM_HOME in exec instead of relying on the directory name of nvm-exec.

Author: msaladna

nvm-exec

@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-DIR="$(command cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
+SOURCE=${BASH_SOURCE[0]}
+if [ -L "${SOURCE}" ]; then
+  command cd "$(dirname "${SOURCE}")" || exit 127
+  SOURCE="$(readlink "${SOURCE}")"
+fi
+DIR="$(command cd "$(dirname "${SOURCE}")" && pwd)"
 
 unset NVM_CD_FLAGS
 

nvm.sh

@@ -2384,12 +2384,12 @@ nvm_extract_tarball() {
 
   if [ "${NVM_OS}" = 'openbsd' ]; then
     if [ "${tar_compression_flag}" = 'J' ]; then
-      command xzcat "${TARBALL}" | "${tar}" -xf - -C "${TMPDIR}" -s '/[^\/]*\///' || return 1
+      command xzcat "${TARBALL}" | "${tar}" --no-same-owner -xf - -C "${TMPDIR}" -s '/[^\/]*\///' || return 1
     else
-      command "${tar}" -x${tar_compression_flag}f "${TARBALL}" -C "${TMPDIR}" -s '/[^\/]*\///' || return 1
+      command "${tar}" --no-same-owner -x${tar_compression_flag}f "${TARBALL}" -C "${TMPDIR}" -s '/[^\/]*\///' || return 1
     fi
   else
-    command "${tar}" -x${tar_compression_flag}f "${TARBALL}" -C "${TMPDIR}" --strip-components 1 || return 1
+    command "${tar}" --no-same-owner -x${tar_compression_flag}f "${TARBALL}" -C "${TMPDIR}" --strip-components 1 || return 1
   fi
 }
 
@@ -3871,7 +3871,12 @@ nvm() {
           nvm_echo "Running node ${VERSION}$(nvm use --silent "${VERSION}" && nvm_print_npm_version)"
         fi
       fi
-      NODE_VERSION="${VERSION}" "${NVM_DIR}/nvm-exec" "$@"
+      local NVM_EXEC
+      NVM_EXEC="${NVM_DIR}/nvm-exec"
+      if [ ! -f "${NVM_EXEC}" ]; then
+        NVM_EXEC="$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]-}")/nvm-exec"
+      fi
+      NODE_VERSION="${VERSION}" "${NVM_EXEC}" "$@"
     ;;
     "ls" | "list")
       local PATTERN

test/slow/nvm exec/Running 'nvm exec --lts' when NVM_DIR differs from nvm

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -ex
+
+die () { echo "$@" ; exit 1; }
+
+INSTPATH="$(mktemp -p "$(pwd)" -d)"
+trap 'test ! -z "${INSTPATH-}" && test -d "$INSTPATH" && rm -rf "$INSTPATH"' EXIT
+declare -x NVM_DIR=$INSTPATH
+\. ../../../nvm.sh
+
+nvm install --lts || die 'nvm install --lts failed'
+nvm exec --lts npm --version || die "`nvm exec` failed to run"
+declare -x NODE_VERSION="$(nvm exec --lts --silent node --version)"
+
+ln -s ../../../../nvm-exec "$INSTPATH/nvm-exec" || die "failed to create a symlink to $INSTPATH/"
+"$INSTPATH/nvm-exec" npm ls > /dev/null || die "`nvm exec` failed to run using nvm-exec helper"
+