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

Fri Oct 26 17:51:30 CEST 2012

Hi Jerome,
+
+thanks for replying for the previous bug. Here is a new bug I filed now:
+
+https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=80420
+
+Regards,
+
+	Shlomi Fish
+
+On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:53:09 +0200
+Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org> wrote:
+
+> Hi Jerome,
+> 
+> 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 .
+> 
+> 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.
+> 
+> Regards,
+> 
+> 	Shlomi Fish
+> 
+
+
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