Glenn ++
2014-11-06 20:51 GMT+01:00 Glenn Linderman <[email protected]>: > 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 [email protected] > 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: [email protected] > 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: [email protected] > 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, [email protected] 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 > ------------------------------ > Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a > mistake when you make it again. -- Franklin Jones >
