Karen Etheridge <et...@cpan.org> writes: >> If you can point us at a couple of example failure reports, maybe >> someone here can figure out what's going wrong. In my experience it is >> almost always the case that things like this are caused by an error in >> the distribution under test. > > Here's the most recent example of such failures: > http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/cb01432c-6737-11e2-992e-e7c00a4a7996 > > As you can see, only the configure_requires dependencies have been > installed. *Some* of the runtime requirements are in @INC via their blib > directories, but not all -- and the compilation tests fail immediately > because Moose is one of the missing dependencies. Moose is clearly > identified as a prereq in the metadata, both a v1.4 META.yml and a v2.0 > META.json file and Makefile.PL. > > FWIW, this type of failure was also recently reported here: > http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2013/01/alienbase---progress-and-problems.html
Nigel, your smoker seems severly misconfigured. My first supect goes against trust_test_report_history config variable. It should hardly ever be true for a smoker. Can you post the output of 'o conf' of the smoker involved in the report cited by Karen? Thanks, -- andreas
