Bug#479923: libmodule-install-perl: FTBFS: test blocked

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Niko Tyni, Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:50:45PM +0300 |=-
> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 02:58:39PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> > -=| Lucas Nussbaum, Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:52:57AM +0200 |=-
> > > Package: libmodule-install-perl
> > > Version: 0.72-1
> > > Severity: serious
> > > Justification: FTBFS on i386
> > > During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
> > > i386.
> > > 
> > > A test seems to have blocked after t/02_basic.

> This happens when ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm isn't seeded yet.  The
> CPAN::FirstTime module tries to prompt for the configuration, but the
> magic in t/03_autoinstall apparently manages to override the prompt to
> return 'n', which isn't a valid choice for an absolute path to the CPAN
> build directory.
> 
> As a result the PROMPT loop in /usr/share/perl/5.10/CPAN/FirstTime.pm:653
> is never exited.
> 
> I suppose we need to get the whole CPAN module to use something outside
> $HOME. No idea how.

Ugh. I was thinking about making 03_autoinstall skip all tests if 
AUTOMATED_TESTNG is set. That would hopefully work around the ftbfs.

I've done this in SVN, please take a look.

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