[email protected] wrote: > While the idea of using sudo only at install time is nice, there are two > problems: > 1. Some modules require extra privileges at test time > 2. Far more impact is that sudo requires that you enter your password each > time you invoke it. Therefore you will have to enter your password once > for each module you install. On any given module you may have 3 or 4 > prerequisites; if you update your modules to current once a quarter, you > will have dozens to install. Given the way that CPAN.pm operates you > can't just keep going and add each blib to your @INC and only do one sudo > session to run all the individual make installs.
My sudo (on latest ubuntu) does not appear to work like that. If I run the sudo commands quickly enough it does not reprompt. I think this is passwd_timeout or timestamp_timeout in sudoers file. Martin -- Martin J. Evans Easysoft Limited http://www.easysoft.com > >> # from Shawn H Corey >> # on Sunday 10 January 2010 08:11: >> >>> $ sudo cpan >> This exposes your system to any bugs in the test suite (an accidental >> `rm -rf /` has happened before) with root privileges. With a modern >> CPAN client, you can set it to use sudo only at install time with the >> make_install_make_command and mbuild_install_build_command knobs. >> >> http://learnperl.scratchcomputing.com/tutorials/configuration/ >> >> --Eric >> -- >> perl -e 'srand; print join(" ",sort({rand() < 0.5} >> qw(sometimes it is important to be consistent)));' >> --------------------------------------------------- >> http://scratchcomputing.com >> --------------------------------------------------- >> > > >
