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Id: 29664
Status: rejected
Priority: 0/
Queue: ExtUtils-Manifest
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Requestors: SREZIC [...] cpan.org
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  Sat Sep 29 10:19:54 2007 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Could not add META.yml to MANIFEST
When creating a distribution using "make dist" and MANIFEST is read-only (which is quite common if the files are RCS-controlled), then the above mentioned error message appears. The whole log doing "make dist" reads: rm -rf testdist-1.00 /usr/local/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Manifest=manicopy,maniread" -e "manicopy(maniread(),'testdist-1.00', 'best');" mkdir testdist-1.00 Generating META.yml Could not add META.yml to MANIFEST: maniadd() could not open MANIFEST: Permission denied at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm line 621. tar cvf testdist-1.00.tar testdist-1.00 a testdist-1.00 a testdist-1.00/MANIFEST a testdist-1.00/Makefile.PL a testdist-1.00/META.yml rm -rf testdist-1.00 gzip --best testdist-1.00.tar You can easily reproduce the problem with the attached test distribution. Please make sure that the MANIFEST file remains read-only. Regards, Slaven
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  Thu Apr 09 13:36:37 2009 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Queue changed from ExtUtils-MakeMaker to ExtUtils-Manifest
  Thu Apr 09 13:42:01 2009 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
This belongs in the ExtUtils::Manifest queue. Since there's a simple and obvious work around (just check out MANIFEST before 'make dist'), you only have to do it once per distribution, its doing exactly what it should be doing if you set MANIFEST read-only, and "make manifest" will blow over your permissions anyway, I'd be disinclined to change the behavior. Anyway, anyone still using RCS for module development is a Luddite masochist and half of them would probably complain about the change. And that person is free to complain.
  Thu Apr 09 13:42:02 2009 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Mon Mar 05 17:23:49 2012 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On 2009-04-09 13:42:01, MSCHWERN wrote: Show quoted text
> This belongs in the ExtUtils::Manifest queue. > > Since there's a simple and obvious work around (just check out MANIFEST > before 'make dist'), you only have to do it once per distribution, its > doing exactly what it should be doing if you set MANIFEST read-only, and > "make manifest" will blow over your permissions anyway, I'd be > disinclined to change the behavior. > > Anyway, anyone still using RCS for module development is a Luddite > masochist and half of them would probably complain about the change. > And that person is free to complain.
I am not interested in the solution of this issue anymore (yes, indeed, I just right now converted the distribution causing the problem from RCS to git), so feel free to reject this ticket. Regards, Slaven
  Mon Mar 05 18:35:43 2012 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
By your command.
  Mon Mar 05 18:35:45 2012 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'