Andreas Koenig wrote:
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
I have contacted Nigel and he sent me his CPAN.pm configuration and I
cannot see anything wrong in it. Especially my suspect about
trust_test_report_history was wrong, trust_test_report_history is off.
At least two of Nigel's smoker setups generate errors because they use NFS, and everything that uses IPC::Run3 fails
because File::Temp cannot guarantee successful unlinking on NFS. Probably, some modules that use File::Temp, may fail too.
In my opinion, these results are useless for module authors. I, as an author, do not benefit from reports like this:
http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/835621d4-6b45-11e2-a82e-ca470f55919d as it has nothing to do with the module
itself. It's not even a problem with architecture (this module has no problems running on arm), it's a problem with
smoker setup.
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S.T.
