Ken Williams wrote:
On May 7, 2006, at 6:49 AM, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
I'm reminder of one other issue: there are Windows vs Unix end-of-line
issues that it sometimes chokes on.
I've just re-released Pod::Readme without a signature, because the
signature
problems are choking up Module::Build users.
Module::Build doesn't do anything with signatures - all it knows how to
do is generate a signature file when building a distribution. I'd
suspect that the failures have more to do with the version of CPAN or
CPANPLUS users have. Or if it's M::B in some way I don't understand,
do you have any error output?
-Ken
Could the problem be in contacting the keyserver?
Just now I manually downloaded and unpacked Module-Build-0.28. I
followed the instructions in the SIGNATURE file (which, BTW, appears
twice in the MANIFEST -- though apparently without causing error) and
got this error message:
[Downloads] 508 $ cd Module-Build-0.28
[Module-Build-0.28] 510 $ cpansign -v
Executing gpg --verify --batch --no-tty
--keyserver=hkp://pgp.mit.edu:11371
--keyserver-options=auto-key-retrieve SIGNATURE
gpg: Signature made Fri Apr 28 00:14:21 2006 EDT using DSA key ID B7EF9476
gpg: requesting key B7EF9476 from hkp server pgp.mit.edu
gpg: keyserver timed out
gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
==> BAD/TAMPERED signature detected! <==
I got the same results with PathTools:
[PathTools-3.18] 518 $ cpansign -v
Executing gpg --verify --batch --no-tty
--keyserver=hkp://pgp.mit.edu:11371
--keyserver-options=auto-key-retrieve SIGNATURE
gpg: Signature made Thu Apr 27 23:02:23 2006 EDT using DSA key ID B7EF9476
gpg: requesting key B7EF9476 from hkp server pgp.mit.edu
gpg: keyserver timed out
gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
==> BAD/TAMPERED signature detected! <==
Since I wasn't attempting to install, these error messages were
independent of the actual operation of CPAN.pm or the cpan shell. But
do they bear upon the problem I previously reported elsewhere and that
RR's users seem to be experiencing?
Thanks.
jimk