Bug #64037 for CPAN: Data-Encoder-0.03.tar.gz cannot be built (because of Archive::Tar)

Sat Dec 18 11:03:26 2010 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

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Data-Encoder-0.03.tar.gz cannot be built (because of Archive::Tar)

It seems that Archive::Tar cannot handle Data-Encoder-0.03.tar.gz: Show quoted text

cpan> look Data::Encoder

... CPAN: Archive::Tar loaded ok (v1.68) PaxHeader/Data-Encoder-0.03 Data-Encoder-0.03/ Data-Encoder-0.03/PaxHeader/Changes ... Package seems to come without Makefile.PL. (The test -f "/usr/local/src/CPAN/build/XAICRON-OW_uBf/Makefile.PL" returned false.) Writing one on our own (setting NAME to DataEncoder) Problem is that an additional "PaxHeader" directory is seen here by Archive::Tar. The normal freebsd tar command does not extract such a directory. Unfortunately using "o conf tar /usr/bin/tar" does not help to fix this problem, Archive::Tar is nevertheless used. All in all: - probably Archive::Tar should not be the default for extracting distributions - it should be possible to specify another tar command Regards, Slaven

Sat Dec 18 11:09:45 2010 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Reference by ticket #64038 added

Sun Dec 19 11:05:05 2010 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

While I agree in principle that the current default policy isn't flexible enough, I observed the upgrading to Archive::Tar 1.74 works. Haven't tried versions between 1.68 and 1.74

Sun Dec 19 11:05:06 2010 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Sun Dec 19 11:38:41 2010 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On 2010-12-19 11:05:05, ANDK wrote: Show quoted text

> While I agree in principle that the current default policy isn't > flexible enough, I observed the upgrading to Archive::Tar 1.74 works. > Haven't tried versions between 1.68 and 1.74

Yes, it was fixed in Archive::Tar 1.74 yesterday. It was broken in 1.72. See the related ticket in the Archive::Tar queue. BTW, would it be possible to force CPAN.pm to upgrade Archive::Tar via distroprefs? I tried this: match: distribution: "/Data-Encoder-0\.03\." depends: configure_requires: Archive::Tar: 1.74 But unfortunately first Data-Encoder-0.03.tar.gz is extracted, and after that Archive::Tar built. Maybe there should be also an "extract_requires" keyword? But this would be somewhat special, because an "extract_requires" keyword would be meaningless in a META.yml, and "depends" tries to mimic the META.yml counterparts. Regards, Slaven

Tue Dec 21 02:24:01 2010 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Rudimentary fix in e8c5279 in the repository. If nobody objects to this sort of fix I'll make it complete later this week.

Sun Jan 16 14:39:42 2011 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Fixed in 1.94_63

Sun Jan 16 14:39:43 2011 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'