Holger,
Good points. I'll change it so that it just quietly falls back on IPV4
ping if Socket::getaddrinfo fails.
Unfortunately I can't find an old Socket-1.0XX.tar.gz distribution to test
it.
Craig
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 6:59 AM, Holger Parplies <wb...@parplies.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> John Barton wrote on 2017-03-29 00:30:30 +0000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Error
> ' getaddrinfo is not a valid Socket macro' after upgrading to 4.1]:
> > [...]
> > # perl -e 'use Socket; print $Socket::VERSION . "\n"'
> > 1.82
>
> for reference, I get the following for different Debian releases:
>
> etch 1.78 (for the fun of it)
> squeeze 1.82
> wheezy 1.94
> jessie 2.013
>
> > From: Craig Barratt [mailto:cbarr...@users.sourceforge.net]
> > [...]
> > Try upgrading Socket.pm:
> >
> > sudo cpan
> > install Socket
>
> I'm not sure I agree with that idea. You're mixing a package manager
> installation with a manual upgrade here. That's not only a cause of
> headaches
> in the BackupPC case. I believe Socket is part of the base Perl
> distribution
> (package perl-base in Debian), so you're messing up an essential core
> package,
> and the package might even get its revenge by silently reverting your
> changes
> on package upgrade. Or you might get a broken system. Or it might work (by
> putting the module somewhere else in the module path).
>
> For Debian, at a quick glance, I find the package
> libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl,
> which sounds promising. I haven't got time to go more into detail right
> now,
> though.
>
> > I'll add a version check on Socket to configure.pl<http://configure.pl>.
>
> Which version of Socket is required? Or rather, what is the exact
> requirement
> - is it even a minimum version of Socket or rather the availability of a
> specific function? I'm not sure if libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl adds this
> functionality to the Socket class or provides an alternative in a different
> namespace (or does something completely different) - I'll try to have a
> closer
> look soon ...
>
> Regards,
> Holger
>
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