Travis: reduce spurious ECONNRESET messages during npm install.

Author: cscott

.travis.yml

@@ -110,8 +110,12 @@ before_install:
 - nvm install $NODE_VERSION
 - nvm use $NODE_VERSION
 - if test "$NODE_VERSION" = "0.8.28" ; then npm install -g [email protected] ; fi
-#- npm config set spin=false
-#- npm config set loglevel=http
+# Work around ECONNRESET issues on travis:
+# https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/7558#issuecomment-97528256
+# https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/7699#issuecomment-93091111
+- npm install -g npm@latest
+- npm config set spin=false
+- npm config set loglevel=http
 - node --version
 - npm --version
 

scripts/publish_x86.sh

@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ if [ `node -e "console.log(process.arch)"` != "ia32" ]; then
 fi
 # install 32 bit compiler toolchain and X11
 # test source compile in 32 bit mode
+npm install -g npm@latest
 npm install --build-from-source
 node-pre-gyp package testpackage
 npm test