I'm trying to work around a bug found in vendorizing mod_perl for gentoo. The problem appears to be that if a user happened to have installed mpm_itk independently on a given box, then when they run mod_perl's test suite, the test suite fails to even start[1]
My understanding of why if fails would be that given we run mod_perl's tests as a non privileged user, and mod_perl's tests require non-privileged usage to run, that creates a mutual exclusion with mpm_itk, as mpm_itk requires apache to spawn as root. The easy solution here to apply would be simply to state a dependency specification for people with testing enabled that prohibits mpm_itk being installed. But I'm also wondering if there's a way to adjust the Apache::Test configuration mod_perl uses so that it skips loading that mpm if its installed. Because if there was, this would be something that could be better upstreamed and create less problems for people who aren't actually using either mod_perl or mpm_itk, but just happen to have either of them installed for the purposes of testing. ( The majority of people who do execute tests are other maintainers, but our package manager is designed such that end users can execute tests if they desire ) 1: https://bugs.gentoo.org/603378 -- Kent KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@perl.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@perl.apache.org
