found 533707 5.10.0-19 thanks On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 04:34:53PM -0500, Evan Carroll wrote: > Severity: serious > Tags: confirmed > Package: perl > > In an attempt to solve other bugs with Debian playing well with CPAN, > I've come across a new one. It appears as if CPANPLUS is not > configured to behave like CPAN.pm.
Thanks for the report and sorry for the delay. I just got back from vacation. Please leave the 'confirmed' tag to the maintainer in the future, see http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags > In /etc/perl/CPAN/Config.pm you'll find > 'makepl_arg' => q[INSTALLDIRS=site], Yes, this originally comes from a Debian patch to CPAN::FirstTime. http://patch-tracking.debian.net/patch/series/view/perl/5.10.0-23/debian/cpan_definstalldirs.diff > (might also want mbuildpl_arg) Right. I see CPAN now prefers Build.PL over Makefile.PL by default via the 'prefer_installer' option. Running for instance 'cpan Cwd' thus has the same problem as cpanp: it tries to write in /usr instead of /usr/local because PathTools specifies "installdirs => 'core'". > There is nothing like this for CPANP in the Debian configuration. > Assuming that you're using a version that can be updated, you can test > this and see the problems with it by updating Archive::Extract. It looks like the analogous fix to the CPAN one would be to change the default 'buildflags' and 'makemakerflags' in lib/CPANPLUS/Config.pm. I'm not quite sure if the file should go in /etc/perl too, will have to think about that. A complication with the CPAN mbuildpl_arg issue is that we're only changing the default for the first time configuration, and if the user has already run 'cpan', it's too late because the old bad default is now in /etc/perl/CPAN/Config.pm (or ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm .) Given that this affects only a subset of core modules, I suppose we shouldn't worry overmuch. An entry in NEWS.Debian is the best thing I can think of, and even that might be considered too annoying by the overwhelming majority of the users that are never going to reinstall a core module that has a Build.PL. The CPANPLUS settings aren't saved automatically AFAICS (one needs to do an explicit 's save' in the cpanp shell) so the configuration persistence is less of a problem in that case. I'll try to get a fix in sid this week. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
