Hi everyone, I would guess this is a FAQ, but I'm not able to find it anywhere. The question is the one that is in the subject: How do I send again / resend a "CPAN::Reporter" generated report?
I would like to re-send it, because I'm getting an error message saying "CPAN::Reporter: this appears to be a duplicate report for the test phase:". I suspect that is not true, meaning I think that the original report was not sent. Let me try to explain this better, by giving some background for my case (sorry for the rather lengthy message): I have an openSUSE 11.0 virtual machine in my laptop (virtual machine with a 192.168.x.x non-routable IP address and running Perl 5.10). Yesterday, I installed the "CPAN::Reporter" module and its dependencies (that include "Test::Reporter" among others) from CPAN. Then, I ran the "o conf init test report", and set the "email_from" value to "Ricardo Dias Marques" <cpan @ ricmarques . net> (spaces added here, to fool spambots, but not added in the setup). After doing this, I set the value for "smtp_server" to mail.ricmarques.net (I have an account at a VPS provider, with CentOS and Postfix). Then, in order to have my reports accepted, I tried to subscribe to the "cpan-testers" mailing list by sending an e-mail message to cpan-testers-subscribe AT perl.org from the same e-mail address. I got the usual message with the subject "confirm subscribe to [email protected]" and replied to it. I thought that was strange that I did NOT get a "Welcome" message later, but ended up thinking that might me normal (I *did* receive a Welcome message when subscribing to this "cpan-testers-discuss" mailing list, though). OK. By then, it was the time to try to install the "HTTP::OAI" module and send the FAIL report (this was, actually, the reason I was trying to install CPAN::Reporter in the first place). Here's the very snipped output of that attempt: -------------------------------------------------- Do you want to send the report? (yes/no) [yes] CPAN::Reporter: sending test report with 'fail' to [email protected] CPAN::Reporter: Test::Reporter: error from 'Test::Reporter::Transport::Net::SMTP:' Net::SMTP: 5.7.1 <[email protected]>: Relay access denied -------------------------------------------------- I thought that the "Relay Access Denied" was to be expected, due to Postfix relay controls, and so I tried to run again "o conf init test report" and then I removed the "smtp_server" value. I tried again to install HTTP::OAI, and I got an even bigger shock: -------------------------------------------------- CPAN::Reporter: Test result is 'fail', One or more tests failed. CPAN::Reporter: preparing a CPAN Testers report for HTTP-OAI-3.21 Do you want to review or edit the test report? (yes/no) [no] Do you want to send the report? (yes/no) [yes] CPAN::Reporter: sending test report with 'fail' to [email protected] CPAN::Reporter: Test::Reporter: error from 'Test::Reporter::Transport::Net::SMTP:' Net::SMTP: http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=213.22.33.118 -------------------------------------------------- "Spamhaus?! That's a Spam Blacklist. Why is my IP address in a Spam Blacklist?". Then I visited http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=213.22.33.118 and I was more relieved: it's just that my ISP (Netcabo) wants their users to use their SMTP server. OK, no problem. I ran once more "o conf init test report" and set "smtp_server" to smtp.netcabo.pt Then I installed again HTTP::OAI and, this time, everything seemed to went OK: -------------------------------------------------- CPAN::Reporter: Test result is 'fail', One or more tests failed. CPAN::Reporter: preparing a CPAN Testers report for HTTP-OAI-3.21 Do you want to review or edit the test report? (yes/no) [no] Do you want to send the report? (yes/no) [yes] CPAN::Reporter: sending test report with 'fail' to [email protected] TIMBRODY/HTTP-OAI-3.21.tar.gz /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK //hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, try: reports TIMBRODY/HTTP-OAI-3.21.tar.gz Running make install make test had returned bad status, won't install without force Failed during this command: TIMBRODY/HTTP-OAI-3.21.tar.gz : make_test NO -------------------------------------------------- 15 hours later, I received an e-mail message from "CPAN Testers Nagbot" with subject "Please check your CPAN testers configuration", telling that I had some outdated versions of CPAN::Reporter and Test::Reporter, namely: -------------------------------------------------- CPAN::Reporter out-of-date (1.1705 < 1.1708): 1 Test::Reporter out-of-date (1.5203 < 1.54): 1 -------------------------------------------------- Well, thank to this message from Nagbot, I found out that the CPAN url that I was using - ftp://ftp.isr.ist.utl.pt/pub/CPAN/ - is a slightly "delayed" / stale mirror. So, I changed the urllist in CPAN to use http://cpan.perl.pt and tried to install again CPAN::Reporter and Test::Reporter. I had several strange and frustrating messages saying that each of those two modules were already "up to date", when I knew that they were not. I ended up installing the two modules "manually" (by running wget, perl Makefile.PL, make test and make install). Later, I found out that I could run the "reload index" command in CPAN and that would solve the wrong "is up to date" message. The problem is that my reports seem to NOT have appeared at CPAN Testers Reports: Reports for HTTP-OAI http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/H/HTTP-OAI.html ... and I can't also find them at: http://groups.google.com/group/perl.cpan.testers/topics?pli=1 And now, if I try to install again the HTTP::OAI module in the hope of being able to send again the "fail" report, I now get the following error message: -------------------------------------------------- CPAN::Reporter: Test result is 'fail', One or more tests failed. CPAN::Reporter: preparing a CPAN Testers report for HTTP-OAI-3.21 CPAN::Reporter: this appears to be a duplicate report for the test phase: FAIL HTTP-OAI-3.21 i586-linux-thread-multi 2.6.25 Test report will not be sent. -------------------------------------------------- Can anyone help me, please? On a related note, can anyone confirm if the "cpan AT ricmarques DOT net" e-mail address was successfully subscribed to the cpan-testers mailing list? Thanks in advance! :) Best wishes, Ricardo Dias Marques lists AT ricmarques DOT net
