Re: First Time CPAN Testing on Windows

[email protected] (Doug Bell) Thu, 23 Aug 2018 21:21:15 -0500
Newsgroups	perl.cpan.testers.discuss
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Hi! Thanks for helping with smoking CPAN modules!

As far as I know, you've set up everything you can correctly. Running a tester can be troublesome, as you're finding out.

As for having to hit Enter sometimes, I think that might be related to some settings for your CPAN client. You should go into the CPAN shell (type "cpan" and hit Enter) and enter the following commands:

	o conf auto_commit yes
		- This makes sure that every config change we make next will be automatically written
	o conf prerequisites_policy follow
		- This prevents needing to hit "Enter" to install prereqs
	o conf use_prompt_default yes
		- This prevents well-behaved modules from prompting you for input
	o conf halt_on_failure yes
		- This prevents installs from continuing if a prereq is missing
	o conf inactivity_timeout 3600
		- This causes the CPAN client to wait for an hour for a process to complete (including the tests) before giving up on it. The default is 0, which means to wait forever

Documentation on these settings can be found here: https://perldoc.perl.org/CPAN/FirstTime.html <https://perldoc.perl.org/CPAN/FirstTime.html>

I do not, myself, run a smoke tester, so if I've got something wrong, the long-time testers on this list should hopefully chime in.

Doug Bell
[email protected]



> On Aug 18, 2018, at 10:43 PM, Charlie Gonzalez <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello CPAN Testers,
> 
> Today I managed to set up a CPAN Smoke tester running on Windows Server 2016  and Strawberry Perl 5.28.0  \o/  YAY!!!, but I did hit a few walls trying to get there.
> 
> First I want to mention that the  CPAN Testers <https://qa.perl.org/cpan-testers/> page is concise and to the point. This page lead me to the CPAN Testers WIKI <http://wiki.cpantesters.org/> from which I went on to learn more about CPAN Testing at the  Quick Start <http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/QuickStart> page.
> 
> Please Note that I am using Google cloud to setup window server instances.
> 
> In my first attempt, I installed CPAN::Reporter but had run into an issue where I was unable to install Data::UUID module  ( https://github.com/rjbs/Data-UUID/issues/28 <https://github.com/rjbs/Data-UUID/issues/28> )
> this instance was then deleted due to the fact that I was not able to  RDP into the box ( The instance was 1 cpu and 3.3 gig ram server ).
> 
> In my second attempt, I built another server ( with the same specs as the first attempt )  but this time I install CPAN::Reporter::Smoker and had the c:\tmp workaround setup that was noted in  ( https://github.com/rjbs/Data-UUID/issues/24 <https://github.com/rjbs/Data-UUID/issues/24> ). I started the CPAN::Reporter::Smoker program but noticed that I didn't have any test results sent to metabase ( http://metabase.cpantesters.org/tail/log.txt <http://metabase.cpantesters.org/tail/log.txt> - Thanks to Jim Keenan for this link and the troubleshooting help ). I didn't setup my metabase-profile so I found a link to install  Task-CPAN-Reporter where I could install all of CPAN::Reporter dependencies and setup my metabase-profile afterwards. while setting up my metabase-profile it turns out I didn't have the proper permission settings on the CPAN directory ( https://gist.github.com/itcharlie/28d88611e9abae283ccddf39a199832d <https://gist.github.com/itcharlie/28d88611e9abae283ccddf39a199832d> ). after resolving my metabase configuration I was able to start  a test install of ExtUtils::ModuleMaker <https://gist.github.com/itcharlie/b3c9671efc2ab51173e56d817e8d817e>  and begin the Smoker process again.
> 
> Everything was working just fine until I see that my server had hung for some reason, I avoided contacting Google for support and moved forward with upgrading the hardware to a 2 CPU and 5.5 Gig ram server.  Also I sometimes have to go to the command prompt and press the enter key while a make is running ( sometimes it just hangs there )
> 
> Can anyone in this list recommended specs for a Windows server  for CPAN Testing?
> 
> Any pointers or tips on how I could have done this better I greatly appreciate it.
> 
> 
> Charlie Gonzalez
> (E) [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> Github Profile <https://github.com/itcharlie>
>
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