Hi, I have done some smoke testing in the past. I have a new machine and wanted to set it up for smoke testing but I've been bitten again by make tests that don't seem to do the right thing with proxy settings. Even though the issue I had was with File::Fetch via CPANPLUS as I was setting up for smoke testing I thought I'd post it here in case there was some good advice to avoid these issues in the future.
Created new user Built a new perl 5.10 and installed into users home dir Set paths etc to point to user perl Installed and configured CPAN shell Attempted to install CPANPLUS from the CPAN shell and got: Running make install Delayed until after prerequisites Running install for module 'File::Fetch' Running make for K/KA/KANE/File-Fetch-0.18.tar.gz . . . Running make test CPAN: CPAN::Reporter loaded ok (v1.1708) PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /home/cpantester/perl10/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t Name "File::Fetch::USER_AGENT" used only once: possible typo at t/01_File-Fetch.t line 119. Name "File::Fetch::FROM_EMAIL" used only once: possible typo at t/01_File-Fetch.t line 121. ####################### NOTE ############################## Some of these tests assume you are connected to the internet. If you are not, or if certain protocols or hosts are blocked and/or firewalled, these tests could fail due to no fault of the module itself. ########################################################### Command failed: get: Fatal error: HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden at t/01_File-Fetch.t line 211 Fetch failed! HTTP response: 500 Internal Server Error [500 Can't connect to www.cpan.org:80 (connect: Connection refused)] at t/01_File-Fetch.t line 211 Command failed: at t/01_File-Fetch.t line 211 and it sits there blocked on something! Eventually I control/c it (remember this). So I notice, it is File::Fetch and download and run the tests manually and it does the same thing - hangs in the middle of the tests. So then I run prove on the 01_File-Fetch.t and it gets to test 120 and hangs. It is doing HTTP/FTP stuff and I sit behind a firewall that throws packets to port 80 in a bin but my http_proxy env var is set correctly. Finally I spot a process: 1001 6915 0.0 0.0 5356 1868 pts/4 S+ 13:12 0:00 /usr/bin/lftp -f /tmp/Poxnaf5Zgh and on examining /tmp/Poxnaf5Zgh I see: set ftp:passive-mode 1; get 'http://www.cpan.org/index.html' -o tmp/index.html I run that command myself and it attempts a fetch then delays and seems to go on retrying forever. I've never heard of lftp and as far as I know I don't need it and have never used it but ubuntu installer installed it out of the box. Finally I find /etc/lftp.conf and see the http:proxy line is commented out, uncomment it and set it correctly and now a prove on the test works. Now for some reason, even though I control/c'ed the install for CPANPLUS, cpan shell seems to think I've already installed CPANPLUS and even a force install CPANPLUS just contains many lines of this form: Has already been unwrapped into directory /home/cpantester/.cpan/build/CPANPLUS-0.8601-k6q367 Has already been made Running make test Has already been tested successfully and I never got to configure CPANPLUS :-( You may be asking why I wanted CPANPLUS - that was because of its useful -c command to show testing reports. I find the magic command to force CPANPLUS to configure it: perl -MCPANPLUS::Configure::Setup -e 'CPANPLUS::Configure::Setup->init()' and it dies with: perl -MCPANPLUS::Configure::Setup -e 'CPANPLUS::Configure::Setup->init()' You called 'CPANPLUS::Configure::Setup::term' on 'CPANPLUS::Configure::Setup' which was interpreted by Object::Accessor as an object call. Did you mean to include 'term' from somewhere else? at /home/cpantester/perl10/lib/5.10.0/Object/Accessor.pm line 458 Object::Accessor::AUTOLOAD('CPANPLUS::Configure::Setup') called at /home/cpantester/perl10/lib/5.10.0/CPANPLUS/Configure/Setup.pm line 87 CPANPLUS::Configure::Setup::init('CPANPLUS::Configure::Setup') called at -e line 1 I know CPANPLUS is not a requirement for CPAN::Reporter::Smoker but it is useful. Presumably because CPANPLUS was never configured any command I issue with it now just reports nothing: cpanp -c % cpanp CPAN Terminal> o CPAN Terminal> c * No wonder so few people do this. >From what I remember last time I was smoke testing I hit rather a lot of modules which ignored my http_proxy. If you feel there are any bugs in this or people I should tell about this experience please let me know. Anyone know how to configure CPANPLUS once it is in this state? And as a secondary, I see my previous reports in the "Hall of Fame" under my CPAN name but I cannot remember how it gets there. As far as I am aware I only put in an email address to CPAN::Reporter and although my cpan email address may forward to that address I'm not sure how my CPAN name gets into the reports. Thanks for listening to a rather frustrated user. Martin
