[Mageia-dev] "App-CPAN2Pkg keeps failing on already available packages" - https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=80418

Fri Oct 26 14:09:54 CEST 2012

On 12/10/26 11:53 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
+> I've been trying out CPAN2Pkg, and was dismayed by this bug:
+> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=80418
+> 
+> "App-CPAN2Pkg keeps failing on already available packages (in the Mageia
+> upstream).
+> 
+> I did not get a reply to the previous bug I reported (which is of similar
+> nature) in 3 months
+> - https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78510 .
+
+strange, i did not get the email from rt, which is why i didn't have a
+look at them. :-(
+
+> Now, I tried to find out what the problem with CPAN2Pkg and after a long
+> investigation, I realised that check_upstream_availability() and
+> _install_from_upstream_with_rpm_lock() are called only on the initial 
+> $self->module->name() (which is object-wide) and not only on its prerequisites.
+> That's not good - we should check each prerequisite as well. Can you look into
+> fixing this? Otherwise, it makes cpan2pkg extremely frustrating to use.
+
+sorry, but check_upstream_availability is done in START event from
+app::cpan2pkg::worker class, and thus for each new module. indeed,
+there's a new worker session created for each module to be investigated.
+
+your error comes from this in the output:
+
+    * 22:16:46 Running: cpanp /prereqs show Carp::REPL
+
+    [ERROR] No such plugin command
+
+
+==> you need to install
+perl-CPANPLUS-Shell-Default-Plugins-Prereqs-0.100.0-1.mga3.noarch.rpm
+
+Jérôme 
+