Tue May 13 17:21:02 2014: Request 95624 was acted upon.
Transaction: Ticket created by jeff.ja...@gmail.com
Queue: Inline
Subject: cpan as root cannot install Inline without force
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Owner: Nobody
Requestors: jeff.ja...@gmail.com
Status: new
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=95624 >
on CentOS6.5, perl 5.10.1, I cannot install Inline using "cpan Inline <
/dev/null".
I can install it with "cpan -f Inline < /dev/null", but that is less than
optimal.
The problem seems to be the same one as reported here:
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=65703
The taint test fails because the directory containing 'make' is removed
from $ENV{PATH}.
It makes sense that this happens, because of course /usr/bin/ is writable
by root. But then does that mean it is just unsupported to install through
cpan as root on any linux system? If that is the case, I think I would have
found more documentation or complaints about that.
Or is the test script supposed to give away rights, and that is not working
for me for some reason?
Thanks,
Jeff
