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Id: 15901
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: Mail-Box
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: gwolf [...] debian.org
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Severity: Normal
Broken in: 2.055
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  Thu Nov 17 11:57:00 2005 GWOLF [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: With filesystem ACLS,write access to a folder is not recognized
We got a report against the Debian package for Mail::Box - please refer to the discussion at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=321076 Basically: Mail::Box tests for write access with '-w' - This is often enough, but on some filesystems it will just not work. Niko Tyni reports that if we use the "use filetest 'access'" pragma, -w will use access instead of stat, and work correctly in ACLed environments - My only question right now is if this is portable to non-Unix platforms. I am including this fix in our version - please consider including it in the main distribution.
  Fri Nov 18 04:39:18 2005 MARKOV [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
The requested upgrade of the access checks to use filetest is valid. I think it will benefit other users as well. Probably, it will be a null-op in other than UNIX environments... will be included in the next release. Besides, I looked at the patch you provide for MailBox on Debian. The current release (2.063) has the new feature that environment variables can be used to overrule interactive installation questions. Set MAILBOX_INSTALL_OPTIONALS and MAILBOX_RUN_TESTS both to "no" before "perl Makefile.PL" is run to disable all interactive behavior.
  Fri Nov 18 04:39:19 2005 MARKOV [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'resolved'
  Fri Nov 18 13:12:28 2005 GWOLF [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
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> The requested upgrade of the access checks to use filetest is valid. > I > think it will benefit other users as well. Probably, it will be a > null-op in other than UNIX environments... will be included in the > next > release.
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> Besides, I looked at the patch you provide for MailBox on Debian. The > current release (2.063) has the new feature that environment variables > can be used to overrule interactive installation questions. Set > MAILBOX_INSTALL_OPTIONALS and MAILBOX_RUN_TESTS both to "no" before > "perl Makefile.PL" is run to disable all interactive behavior.
Hmmm... This lacks a bit of granularity - Could you separate the MAILBOX_INSTALL_OPTIONALS in three variables (following the three questions you ask)? Up until now, I was omitting them all, but I think I would like to enable some.
  Fri Nov 18 13:12:29 2005 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'resolved' to 'open'
  Fri Nov 18 13:13:31 2005 GWOLF [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Gah... Replying to a bug marks it again as open? Sorry... Please, go ahead and re-close it.
  Thu Jan 05 04:46:06 2006 MARKOV [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'