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) itchar...@gmail.com Github Profile <https://github.com/itcharlie> On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 10:21 PM Doug Bell <d...@preaction.me> 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 > d...@preaction.me > > > > On Aug 18, 2018, at 10:43 PM, Charlie Gonzalez <itchar...@gmail.com> > 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) itchar...@gmail.com > Github Profile <https://github.com/itcharlie> > > >
