If memory serves me well, I do remember we discussing some months ago
that it would be a good idea to have a central repository for those
preference files disabling some distros to run on smokers. I have my own at:
https://github.com/glasswalk3r/cpan-openbsd-smoker/tree/master/prefs
I guess some authors just don't know their distros are blocked...
probably some don't even care. :-)
But I guess is a worth effort to improve overall CPAN quality.
Em 04/12/2017 16:40, Karen Etheridge escreveu:
The topic has come up at previous Toolchain hackathons but as far as I
know, no list has been compiled yet, or even a comprehensive list of
what criteria would be used to find such distributions.
I don't have a smoker network of my own, but if I did, I'd want to set
up testing in a chrooted jail to find distributions that read or write
to files outside of the temp unpack dir or the install dir (for example
many distributions write directly to the user's home directory, which is
why I install my perls to a different user than the one that contains my
bank statements and tax history). Also on my list would be
distributions that use the network even though I've explicitly told them
not to with NO_NETWORK_TESTING=1 (I have a firewall rule that tells me
about those -- it triggers a *lot* when installing modules into a new
blead point release.)
