Lance,
I'm sure you're very frustrated that you've tried a bunch of things that
haven't worked, but Roderich has, for several years, nearly
single-handedly been keeping the PAR project functioning. Remember he is
not getting paid to do that, but does it as a volunteer. I've been
monitoring this list for quite a few years, and remember when Roderich
first started contributing to the project, and have seen years of his
contributions... always helpful.
Remember, that the best thing about computers is they do just what you
tell them to do... and that is also the worst thing about computers.
Granted, he can't visit everyone with a problem, and debug live on their
machine... but he always has made helpful suggestions, based on the
reported symptoms, and I don't recall anyone that hasn't been helped.
Your first sentence in the quoted message below is _very_ offensive, and
I wouldn't blame Roderich if he just flat quit responding to your
messages, after saying that.
Very often the best help comes from figuring out what you (in this case,
you, Lance) did wrong, that prevents a functional system from
functioning properly. If multiple versions of things don't work, then
perhaps you have serious problems with the installation of your system.
I haven't been attempting to follow the details of your problem, not
being a Linux expert, but often times Linux distributions seriously lag
the "bleeding edge" of new development... intentionally for stability...
but that often means that a number of packages must be upgraded in order
to get a particular other package to work. You may be facing such a
situation.
Blasting the only person that is likely to be able to help you through
YOUR problem as being unhelpful, doesn't seem to be a productive way to
solve YOUR problem. Remember, it is NOT Roderich's problem, it is YOUR
problem. But he is likely to help you through it, if you work with him,
instead of being offensive. Will he be able to resolve your problem
today? I don't know. Will it take a month? Maybe. It depends on how
seriously YOUR system is messed up, and how cooperative YOU are in
providing information.
On 11/6/2014 9:28 AM, Lance Gropper via RT wrote:
Thu Nov 06 12:28:21 2014: Request 100090 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by e...@pacbell.net
Queue: PAR-Packer
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #100090] PAR-Packer-1.023 Execution failure in
CentOS 6.2x64
Broken in: (no value)
Severity: (no value)
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: e...@pacbell.net
Status: rejected
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100090 >
At some point, you should try to be a little more helpful. You can see there
is a problem with ScanDeps without running make test. I was requesting
help - not requesting a description of what I did wrong. The version of
ScanDeps which comes with CentOS 6.2x64 doesn't work (0.90), the latest one
via yum doesn't work (0.92), the latest one on the internet (1.17) causes
the problem you see below. None of them install with any problems.
PAR-Packer-1.023 seems to only work with a specific version range (which
isn't documented anywhere that I could find). The one I found which worked
was version 0.97.
-----Original Message-----
From: Roderich Schupp via RT
Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 11:59 PM
To: e...@pacbell.net
Subject: [rt.cpan.org #100090] PAR-Packer-1.023 Execution failure in CentOS
6.2x64
<URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100090 >
Am 2014-11-05 18:42:45, e...@pacbell.net schrieb:
[root@QOS PAR-Packer-1.023]# pp
Can't locate Module/Metadata.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at
/usr/local/share/perl5/Module/ScanDeps.pm line 29.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/usr/local/share/perl5/Module/ScanDeps.pm line 29.
Module::ScanDeps isn't installed correctly - its Makefile.PL clearly states:
requires 'Module::Metadata' => '0';
BTW, you obviously didn't run "make test" when installing PAR::Packer,
otherwise you would have caught this earlier.
Cheers, Roderich
--
Glenn
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Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a
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