On 12/04/2017 09:08 AM, Nigel Horne wrote:
I received a bunch of these today. It may be blacklisting doit - in
case it's doing it to something you really don't want it to
gateway.bandsman.co.uk : Dec 4 08:17:02 : njh : a password is required ;
TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/njh/.cpan/build/Doit-0.022-21 ; USER=root ;
COMMAND=/bin/true
-Nigel
Have CPAN testers or, perhaps, the Perl Toolchain Gang, ever published a
list of badly behaved distributions?
I have been compiling my own list of distros that are either dangerous
(as Doit now appears to be), badly behaved (defaulting to invasive
tests; rigged to require a response to a command prompt), defectively
packaged (won't untar properly), or inappropriate for a given OS.
That list has been built up through painful experience. I think it
would be beneficial to be able to share such a list with others and
others' lists with mine. Something perhaps less official than an
official CPAN distro, but something to which trusted people could
contribute.
Thoughts?
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
