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
<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
> <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
> <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
> <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
> <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 <mailto:itchar...@gmail.com>
> Github Profile <https://github.com/itcharlie>
>
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