William McKee wrote: [...]
Suggestion #2:
Don't build/test as root. This is a bad practice. Build/test as a normal user and only 'su'/'sudo' when running 'make install'.
Yeah I agree with the sentiment and usu. do this when installing software manually, but how does one install via CPAN shell? It seems that interface was made to be run as root. Am I missing something that would allow me to set it up to build/test as normal user and install as root?
All you need to do is to setup CPAN.pm to have its build dir under non-root directory, e.g. /tmp/.cpan. And the issue is solved.
The other idea I've had is to gather this information via the processes already in place as well as perhaps Suggestion #1 and then present this information to the user in an interactive format such as done by HTTP::ApacheCookie. This allows users to specify alternate values if the system guesses incorrectly.
Yes, yes, this is all planned to do. Hopefully next month. This won't solve the problem of running from under /root. Apache doesn't run under root and it won't be able to read files under /root, ever. So you have no choice but to build the project under some directory that user 'nobody' (or the one set via APACHE_USER/APACHE_GROUP) can read/write/execute.
I'd be willing to implement these changes if someone on the list can point me to the module and subroutine where I should be making them. Would the best place for these questions be in the TEST script? That would get tedious though when doing testing during development.
The plan is to adopt CPAN/FirstTime.pm to do the same for A-T. I'm planning to work on this somewhere next month.
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