Re: Failures of Net::FTP and LWP during oke testing

No idea what the problem is offhand.  I'll try to find some time to
debug this during the weekend.

--Gisle

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 03:34, Ilya Zakharevich <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are many "yellow" reports for Math::Pari in the smoke test
> database.  They come from failures to download C source code for the
> library Math::Pari need.  Net::FTP and LWP fail (kinda mysteriously);
> usual `ftp -pinegv' I run for debugging purposes succeeds.
>
> The recent versions of Math::Pari have some code to debug these
> failures; however, the debugging output says nothing to me (IIRC, most
> of the code to auto-fetch was contributed).  Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Ilya
>
> =======================================================
> A good example of the report of failure is
>  http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2009/11/msg5926497.html
> Essentially, the error message is
>
>    Getting GP/PARI from ftp://megrez.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/unix/
>    Cannot list (Illegal PORT command.
>    ):  at utils/Math/PariBuild.pm line 319.
>
>    Can't fetch file with Net::FTP, now trying with LWP::UserAgent...
>    Not in this directory, trying `ftp://megrez.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/unix/OLD/'...
>
> then it shows that the response via LWP for ..../OLD is empty (of type
> text/ftp-dir-listing), and shows that `ftp -pinegv' has no problem
> getting the listings (for both directories) and the file.
>
> The code which emits these messages is in
>  http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/ILYAZ/Math-Pari-2.0304_00108060102/utils/Math/PariBuild.pm
>
> starting from
>  require Net::FTP;
>
>