Bug #99326 for Perl-Dist-Strawberry: http fetch bugs in cpanm

Mon Oct 06 07:39:20 2014 esarmas [...] gmail.com - Ticket created

Subject:	http fetch bugs in cpanm
Date:	Mon, 6 Oct 2014 14:38:29 +0300
To:	bug-Perl-Dist-Strawberry [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Ev Sarmas <esarmas [...] gmail.com>

Hello, I want to learn perl and downloaded and use Strawberry Per (5.20) on 32 bit Windows. It works fine but when I wanted to install Padre I used the 'cpanm' tool which is my source of complaints. 1. cpanm cannot get a http url for a distribution on first try immediately and usually on all 3 tries so I have to run a cpanm command many times in sequence for it to get the distribution and try to install it (often 10 times !!!) certainly something is wrong, Chrome gets it immediately on first try this happened with cpanm Padre cpanm Alien::wxWidgets cpanm Wx 2. even when cpanm finally gets the distribution it cannot install it because it often needs to get some other source and fetches further http data which not all result in 200 HTTP code but many times in 301 HTTP code (MOVED) that cpanm handles as error clearly cpanm should handle 301 and finish the installation I paste below the log for cpanm Alien:wxWidgets cpanm (App::cpanminus) 1.7009 on perl 5.020001 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-64int Work directory is C:\DOCUME~1\eis/.cpanm/work/1412516982.2084 You have make C:\Strawberry\c\bin\dmake.exe You have LWP 6.08 Falling back to Archive::Tar 2.02 Searching Alien::wxWidgets on cpanmetadb ... -> FAIL Finding Alien::wxWidgets on cpanmetadb failed. Searching Alien::wxWidgets () on metacpan ... --> Working on Alien::wxWidgets Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MD/MDOOTSON/Alien-wxWidgets-0.65.tar.gz -> OK Unpacking Alien-wxWidgets-0.65.tar.gz Entering Alien-wxWidgets-0.65 Checking configure dependencies from META.json Checking if you have Module::Build 0.28 ... Yes (0.4210) Configuring Alien-wxWidgets-0.65 Running Build.PL Possible precedence issue with control flow operator at lib/Alien/wxWidgets/Utility.pm line 77. Created MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json Creating new 'Build' script for 'Alien-wxWidgets' version '0.65' -> OK Checking dependencies from MYMETA.json ... Checking if you have Module::Pluggable 2.6 ... Yes (5.1) Checking if you have Module::Build 0.28 ... Yes (0.4210) Checking if you have File::Spec 1.50 ... Yes (3.48) Checking if you have ExtUtils::CBuilder 0.24 ... Yes (0.280219) Building and testing Alien-wxWidgets-0.65 Possible precedence issue with control flow operator at lib/Alien/wxWidgets/Utility.pm line 77. Fetch failed! HTTP response: 500 Internal Server Error [500 Can't connect to prdownloads.sourceforge.net:80 <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/>] at inc/My/Build/Base.pm line 305. Fetch failed! HTTP response: 599 [Internal Exception] at inc/My/Build/Base.pm line 305. Got a '301' from 'prdownloads.sourceforge.net' expected '200' at inc/My/Build/Base.pm line 305. Unable to fetch archive at inc/My/Build/Base.pm line 307. Building Alien-wxWidgets Fetching wxWidgets... fetching from: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxwindows/wxWidgets-3.0.0.tar.bz2 -> FAIL Installing Alien::wxWidgets failed. See C:\DOCUME~1\eis\.cpanm\work\1412516982.2084\build.log for details. Retry with --force to force install it. Please what can I do ?? I must say the impression one gets is not very favorable for Perl (sorry...) cpanm is not just a tool that may go wrong, it's the main install/upgrade tool for perl packages as I understand and it should work ok Best regards, E.Sarmas

Mon Oct 06 09:32:42 2014 kmx [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #99326] http fetch bugs in cpanm
Date:	Mon, 06 Oct 2014 15:32:30 +0200
To:	bug-Perl-Dist-Strawberry [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Karel Miko <kmx [...] cpan.org>

Hi, the trouble here is that Alien-wxWidgets build script tries to download some files (probably Wxwidget source tarball) from sourceforge.net server. Unfortunately at the time you have tried it the sourceforge.net server (not a perl server not a strawberry perl server) responded with error "500 Internal Server Error" As you have realized the workaround is to try it again. The more bulletproof fix might be implemented at Alien-wxWidgets's side where their build script might repeatedly retry the download in case of failure. Anyway neither cpanm nor strawberry perl can do much about this as it is simply caused by unreliable and/or overloaded sourceforge.net server. -- kmx

Mon Oct 06 09:32:43 2014 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Mon Oct 06 15:36:46 2014 esarmas [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #99326] http fetch bugs in cpanm
Date:	Mon, 6 Oct 2014 22:36:36 +0300
To:	bug-Perl-Dist-Strawberry [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Ev Sarmas <esarmas [...] gmail.com>

Hi! Thanks for reply but i think it was rather hasty compounded by the fact that the log output is not so well worded perhaps. If you look after the 500 error, there is further error report from the same line number (!) that the http code received was 301 when expecting 200 and indeed if you try on Chrome the link http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxwindows/wxWidgets-3.0.0.tar.bz2 you easily get the package after a redirect to another url ... the 500 code seems not to be real (!) since you cannot get both 500 and 301 Also remains my note #1 about the many trials needed to download from the cpan.org site. I am surprised. These packages seem to be important requirements for an important distribution which is Padre. How do other people install Padre ? Have they noticed no problem ??! Best Regards, E.Sarmas On 6 Oct 2014 16:32, "kmx via RT" <bug-Perl-Dist-Strawberry@rt.cpan.org> wrote: Show quoted text

> <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=99326 > > > Hi, > > the trouble here is that Alien-wxWidgets build script tries to download > some files (probably Wxwidget source tarball) from sourceforge.net server. > > Unfortunately at the time you have tried it the sourceforge.net server > (not > a perl server not a strawberry perl server) responded with error "500 > Internal Server Error" > > As you have realized the workaround is to try it again. > > The more bulletproof fix might be implemented at Alien-wxWidgets's side > where their build script might repeatedly retry the download in case of > failure. > > Anyway neither cpanm nor strawberry perl can do much about this as it is > simply caused by unreliable and/or overloaded sourceforge.net server. > > -- > kmx > > >

Thu Oct 23 03:23:27 2014 kmx [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I am afraid I am not help your more with this issue as I do not regard it a Strawberry perl bug. Therefore closing.

Thu Oct 23 03:23:28 2014 kmx [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'