Re: First Time CPAN Testing on Windows

Hi Doug,

Thank you for sharing your knowledge on this subject.  Lately, I have been
updating a disabled.yml (
https://github.com/itcharlie/cpan-testing-configs/blob/master/disabled.yml
) file on distros that break while installing them on Strawberry Perl in
Windows ( I am not bothering to look at the reasons why the modules are
failing to install ). After upgrading the server instance with 2 virtual
cpus and 5.5 gigs of ram , google cloud monitoring has stop yelling at me
with notifications to upgrade the server specs and CPAN::Reporter::Smoker
seems to be running a bit quicker now.

Since then I have set up 2 more servers to run CPAN tester reports for Perl
5.26  and 5.24 ( I am using this opportunity to learn how its done and hash
out the steps needed to setup a Smoker  on Windows )

I will review the documentation further and work on setting up some of
those commands.  Thank you for your time.

Charlie Gonzalez
(E) [email protected]
Github Profile <https://github.com/itcharlie>



On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 10:21 PM Doug Bell <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>
> 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 )
> 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 ). 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 -
> 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 ).
> 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]
> Github Profile <https://github.com/itcharlie>
>
>
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