[Mageia-dev] "App-CPAN2Pkg keeps failing on already available packages" - https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=80418

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Jerome,

thanks for replying for the previous bug. Here is a new bug I filed now:

https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=80420

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:53:09 +0200
Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org> wrote:

> Hi Jerome,
> 
> I've been trying out CPAN2Pkg, and was dismayed by this bug:
> 
> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=80418
> 
> "App-CPAN2Pkg keeps failing on already available packages (in the Mageia
> upstream).
> 
> I did not get a reply to the previous bug I reported (which is of similar
> nature) in 3 months
> - https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78510 .
> 
> Now, I tried to find out what the problem with CPAN2Pkg and after a long
> investigation, I realised that check_upstream_availability() and
> _install_from_upstream_with_rpm_lock() are called only on the initial 
> $self->module->name() (which is object-wide) and not only on its
> prerequisites. That's not good - we should check each prerequisite as well.
> Can you look into fixing this? Otherwise, it makes cpan2pkg extremely
> frustrating to use.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Shlomi Fish
> 



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