CPAN::YACSmoke - Yet Another CPAN Smoke Tester
perl -MCPAN::YACSmoke -e test
This module uses the backend of CPANPLUS to run tests on modules recently uploaded to CPAN and post results to the CPAN Testers list.
It will create a database file in the .cpanplus directory, which it uses to track tested distributions. This information will be used to keep from posting multiple reports for the same module, and to keep from testing modules that use non-passing modules as prerequisites.
If it is given multiple versions of the same distribution to test, it will test the most recent version only. If that version fails, then it will test a previous version.
By default it uses CPANPLUS configuration settings.
The object interface is created normally through the test() or mark() functions of the procedural interface. However, it can be accessed with a set of configuration settings to extend the capabilities of the package.
CPANPLUS configuration settings (inherited from CPANPLUS unless otherwise noted) are:
verbose debug force cpantest report_pass_only prereqs prefer_bin prefer_makefile - enabled by default makeflags makemakerflags md5 signature extractdir fetchdir
CPAN::YACSmoke configuration settings are:
ignore_cpanplus_bugs ignore_bad_prereqs fail_max exclude_dists test_max allow_retries suppress_extracted flush_flag - used by purge() list_from - List plugin required, default Recent recent_list_age - used with the Recent plugin recent_list_path - used with the Recent plugin mailbox - used with the Outlook plugin nntp_id - used with the NNTP plugins webpath - used with the WebList plugin audit_log - log file to write progress to config_file - an INI file with the above settings database_file - the local cpansmoke database
All settings can use defaults. With regards to the last setting, the INI file should contain one setting per line, except the values for the exclude_dists setting, which are laid out as:
[CONFIG] exclude_dists=<<HERE mod_perl HERE
The above would then ignore any distribution that include the string 'mod_perl' in its name. This is useful for distributions which use external C libraries, which are not installed, or for which testing is problematic.
The setting 'test_max' is used to restrict the number of distributions tested in a single run. As some distributions can take some time to be tested, it may be more suitable to run in small batches at a time. The default setting is 100 distributions.
The setting 'allow_retries' defaults to include grades of UNGRADED, IGNORED and ABORTED. If you wish to change this, for example to only allow grades of UNGRADED to be retried, you can specify as:
[CONFIG] allow_retries=ungraded
Often module authors prefer to see the details of failed tests. You can make this the default setting using:
[CONFIG] makeflags=TEST_VERBOSE=1
Note that sending verbose failure reports for packages with thousands of tests will be quite large (!), and may be blocked by mail and news servers.
See Config::IniFiles for more information on the INI file format.
Obtains the users home directory
Obtains the base directory for downloading and testing distributions.
Obtains the build directory for unpacking and testing distributions.
The following routines are exported by default. They are intended to be called from the command-line, though they could be used from a script.
perl -MCPAN::YACSmoke -e test perl -MCPAN::YACSmoke -e test('R/RR/RRWO/Some-Dist-0.01.tar.gz')
Runs tests on CPAN distributions. Arguments should be paths of individual distributions in the author directories. If no arguments are given, it will download the RECENT file from CPAN and use that.
By default it uses CPANPLUS configuration settings. If CPANPLUS is set not to send test reports, then it will not send test reports.
For further use of configuration settings see the new() constructor.
perl -MCPAN::YACSmoke -e mark('Some-Dist-0.01') perl -MCPAN::YACSmoke -e mark('Some-Dist-0.01', 'fail')
Retrieves the test result in the database, or changes the test result.
It can be useful to update the status of a distribution that once failed or was untestable but now works, so as to test modules which make use of it.
Grades can be one of (case insensitive):
aborted = tests aborted (uninstallable prereqs or other failure in test) pass = passed tests fail = failed tests unknown = no tests available na = not applicable to platform or installed libraries ungraded = no grade (test possibly aborted by user) none = undefines a grade ignored = package was ignored (a newer version was tested)
perl -MCPAN::YACSmoke -e excluded('Some-Dist-0.01') perl -MCPAN::YACSmoke -e excluded()
Given a list of distributions, indicates which ones would be excluded from testing, based on the exclude_dist list that is created.
perl -MCPAN::YACSmoke -e purge() perl -MCPAN::YACSmoke -e purge('Some-Dist-0.01')
Purges the entries from the local cpansmoke database. The criteria for purging is that a distribution must have a more recent version, which has previously been marked as a PASS. However, if one or more distributions are passed as a parameter list, those specific distributions will be purged.
If the flush_flag is set, via the config hash, to a true value, the directory path created for each older copy of a distribution is deleted.
perl -MCPAN::YACSmoke -e flush() perl -MCPAN::YACSmoke -e flush('all') perl -MCPAN::YACSmoke -e flush('old')
Removes unrequired build directories from the designated CPANPLUS build directory. Note that this deletes directories regardless of whether the associated distribution was tested.
Default flush is 'all'. The 'old' option will only delete the older distributions, of multiple instances of a distribution.
Note that this cannot be done reliably using last access or modify time, as the intention is for this distribution to be used on any OS that CPANPLUS is installed on. In this case not all OSs support the full range of return values from the stat function.
To know which distributions to test, the packages needs to access a list of distributions that have been recently uploaded to CPAN. There are currently four plugins which can enable this:
The Recent plugin downloads the RECENT file from CPAN, and returns the list of recently added modules, by diff-ing from the previously downloaded version.
Pass through configuration settings:
%config = { list_from => 'Recent', recent_list_age => '', recent_list_path => '.' };
The SmokeDB plugin uses the contents of the locally stored cpansmoke database. This can then be used to retest distributions that haven't been fully tested previously.
There are no pass through configuration settings.
The PlainTextList plugin allows for a locally created plain text file, listing all the distributions to be tested in a single run. Note that the excluded list and text_max settings will still apply.
%config = { list_from => 'PlainTextList', data => $my_data_file, };
For an example, see one of the above plugins, or one of the known plugin packages available on CPAN (see list below).
The constructor, new(), is passed a hash of the configuration settings. The setting 'smoke' is an object reference to YACSmoke. Be sure to save the configuration settings your plugin requires in the constructor.
The single instance method used by YACSmoke is download_list(). This should return a simple list of the distributions available for testing. Note that if a parameter value of 1 is passed to download_list(), this indicates that a test run is in progress, otherwise only a query on the outstanding list is being made.
Uses the NNTP feed direct via 'nntp.perl.org' of 'perl.cpan.testers'.
Uses the web interface to the newsgroup 'perl.cpan.testers'.
Uses a list of emails held in an Outlook mail folder
Uses the distributions within the Phlanax 100 list
Uses a web page containing the list of recently uploaded distributions to CPAN. Uses KobeSearch by default, but another similar page can be requested.
This is a proto-type release. Use with caution and supervision.
The current version has a very primitive interface and limited functionality. Future versions may have a lot of options.
There is always a risk associated with automatically downloading and testing code from CPAN, which could turn out to be malicious or severely buggy. Do not run this on a critical machine.
This module uses the backend of CPANPLUS to do most of the work, so is subject to any bugs of CPANPLUS.
Please submit suggestions and report bugs to the CPAN Bug Tracker at http://rt.cpan.org.
There is a SourceForge project site for CPAN::YACSmoke at http://sourceforge.net/projects/yacsmoke.
The CPAN Testers Website at http://testers.cpan.org has information about the CPAN Testing Service.
For additional information, see the documentation for these modules:
CPANPLUS Test::Reporter
Robert Rothenberg <rrwo at cpan.org>
Barbie <barbie at cpan.org>, for Miss Barbell Productions, http://www.missbarbell.co.uk
Jos Boumans <kane at cpan.org> for writing CPANPLUS.
Copyright (C) 2005 by Robert Rothenberg. All Rights Reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
To install CPAN::YACSmoke, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm CPAN::YACSmoke
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install CPAN::YACSmoke
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.