via RT wrote:
Show quoted text> Fri Aug 18 09:17:00 2006: Request 21061 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by KANE
> Queue: Module-Install
> Subject: M::I spawns CPAN.pm when run under CPANPLUS for AutoInstall
> Broken in: (no value)
> Severity: Important
> Owner: Nobody
> Requestors: KANE@cpan.org
> Status: new
> Ticket <URL:
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21061 >
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure what's going on, but i got a report from a user in this ticket about M::I:
>
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20478
>
> It turns out that during the installation of Module::Signature, which is a prereq of
> Bundle::CPANPLUS::Dependencies, Module::Install fires up it's autoinstall and spawns
> CPAN.pm to do it, even though CPANPLUS is already running.
>
> The code in Module::Install 0.63 mentions a check for PERL5_CPANPLUS_IS_RUNNING, but
> the code bundled with M::S (listed as M::I 0.63) doesnt have that chunk of code in it.
>
> Any thouhgts of what is going on/how to resolve this?
As I think I might have mentioned before PERL5_CPANPLUS_IS_RUNNING does
not actually indicate that CPANPLUS is running, only that the module has
been loaded.
As such it is an unreliable as an indicator which has in the past caused
M:I to falsely hand off to CPANPLUS because some other piece of code
had loaded CPANPLUS into memory to check a configuration value or some such.
But apparently the additional checks made for CPANPLUS/CPAN.pm are not
working correcting in your situation.
Ideally, I'd like to see CPANPLUS changed to set a reliable environment
variable that could be detected properly. Failing that, the way we are
detecting CPAN.pm/CPANPLUS is otherwise not working, and probably needs
to be fixed.
Adam K
