remove postinstall hook from package.json

[5chdn]

The package.json contains the following:

"scripts": {
  "ci": "gulp --platform=linux",
  "postinstall": "gulp update-nodes"
},

Which causes each npm install to trigger a gulp update-nodes after the installation. Took me a while to figure out where that came from.

In the docs you describe the installation as follows:

Installation

Now you're ready to install Mist:

$ git clone https://github.com/ethereum/mist.git
$ cd mist
$ git submodule update --init
$ npm install
$ gulp update-nodes

Which describes the intentions of npm install and gulp update-notes to be separated commands. As for now it is not possible to install mist without triggering a full download of all nodes for all operating systems (this is yet another issue).

[14:03:42] Starting 'clean:nodes'...
[14:03:42] Finished 'clean:nodes' after 10 ms
[14:03:42] Starting 'downloadNodes'...
[14:03:42] Downloading https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/download/v1.4.10/geth-OSX-20160716155225-1.4.10-5f55d95.zip...
[14:03:42] Downloading https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/download/v1.4.10/geth-Linux64-20160716160600-1.4.10-5f55d95.tar.bz2...
[14:03:42] Downloading https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/download/v1.4.10/Geth-Win64-20160716155900-1.4.10-5f55d95.zip...
[14:03:42] Downloading https://bintray.com/karalabe/ethereum/download_file?file_path=geth-1.4.10-stable-5f55d95-linux-386.tar.bz2...
[14:03:42] Downloading https://bintray.com/karalabe/ethereum/download_file?file_path=geth-1.4.10-stable-5f55d95-windows-4.0-386.exe.zip...
^C

Please remove the postinstall hook from package.json or provide a convenient way of disabling the update-nodes command. Also I would strongly recommend to only download the target OS version of the node.

[hiddentao]

PR is #988, thanks @luclu

[5chdn]

Jeez, what a mess, now I run into the following.

 ERROR: YOUR NODES NEED TO BE UPDATED run $ gulp update-nodes

I do not want to use the mist nodes but the system wide nodes. Please, help a desperate package maintainer :-)

I totally understand your motivation, you want it straight forward easy and simple for the end user. But for those who know their tools, please allow alternative paths! Thanks :-)

Related: #264

[luclu]

Try now, this PR should solve your problem:

Fix node download logic #1048

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