On 12/04/2017 02:06 PM, Nigel Horne wrote:
On 12/4/17 1:34 PM, James E Keenan wrote:
On 12/04/2017 09:08 AM, Nigel Horne wrote:
I received a bunch of these today. It may be blacklisting doit - in
case it's doing it to something you really don't want it to
gateway.bandsman.co.uk : Dec 4 08:17:02 : njh : a password is
required ; TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/njh/.cpan/build/Doit-0.022-21 ;
USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/true
-Nigel
Have CPAN testers or, perhaps, the Perl Toolchain Gang, ever published
a list of badly behaved distributions?
I use https://github.com/dagolden/distroprefs.git
I will check that out. Thanks for pointing it out to me.
I have been compiling my own list of distros that are either dangerous
(as Doit now appears to be), badly behaved (defaulting to invasive
tests; rigged to require a response to a command prompt), defectively
packaged (won't untar properly), or inappropriate for a given OS.
That list has been built up through painful experience. I think it
would be beneficial to be able to share such a list with others and
others' lists with mine. Something perhaps less official than an
official CPAN distro, but something to which trusted people could
contribute.
Perhaps a pull request to that repository with your suggestions would be
a good idea.
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
-Nigel
