On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, via RT wrote:
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> <URL:
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27911 >
>
> On Jul 2, 2007, at 9:48 PM, Andy Dougherty wrote:
>
> > While testing CPANPLUS on my bleadperl test directory, I ran into the
> > following problem.
> >
> > I built and installed bleadperl into a dedicated directory. I then
> > ran
> > cpanp5.9.5 and told it to
> > t CPANPLUS
> > it dutifully fetched CPANPLUS, but during the testing phase of
> > t/20_CPLANPLUS-Dist-MM
> >
> > I saw the following error message:
> >
> > # Sorry, installing into your real perl dir, rather than our test
> > # area since ExtUtils::Installed does not probe for .packlists in
> > # other dirs than those in %Config. See bug #6871 on rt.cpan.org
> > # for details
> >
> > This is wrong. The test should be skipped. Or I should be
> > prompted to
> > agree to polluting my 'real perl dir'. Now I have to go in and
> > manually
> > clean up whatever stuff it put there. I shouldn't have to do this.
> > Testing is not installing.
>
> It installs, and removes it and only when there's sufficient
> permissions,
> so there's nothing to actually to worry about.
Yes there is. First, from a fundamental point of view, I think that
testing is not installation. Touching my installation directory without
my consent really strikes me as wrong.
Show quoted text> If you read down the test diagnostics, you will see:
> # Sorry, installing into your real perl dir, rather than our test
> # area since ExtUtils::Installed does not probe for .packlists in
> # other dirs than those in %Config. See bug #6871 on rt.cpan.org
> # for details
> ok 19 - Installing module
> [...]
> ok 37 - Uninstalling module
Yes, I saw that. But it doesn't actually completely uninstall the module.
Before running the test, I made a fresh copy of my perl directory. After
testing, I ran a recursive diff. I found that I still have the following
entities that I didn't have before:
perl/lib/5.9.5/i686-linux/perllocal.pod
perl/lib/site_perl/5.9.5/Foo/
perl/lib/site_perl/5.9.5/i686-linux/auto/
The perllocal.pod one contains fake information about files that aren't
installed anymore.
Also, the timestamps on my installation directories are now changed.
[This is all with CPANPLUS 0.80.]
In short, this test changed my installation directories when I
specificially had not asked for an installation.
Show quoted text> It's always been deemend a worthwhile test, even though the recorded bug
> in EU::Installed. If this is actually now considered a big problem, I
> suggest we put real effort in fixing the reported bug in EU::Installed,
> rather than throwing away important feature tests.
I had already read the bug report referenced in the message, and I saw
that it's a workaround for a problem in EU::Installed. I just disagree
with your conclusion. I don't know how others feel. I may be a minority
of one.
--
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
