[rt-users] Problem RTIR Installation -- CPAN's GnuPG::Interface tests failing

[Jesse Vincent]

On Wed 23.Sep'09 at 18:33:13 -0700, Behzad Mahini wrote:
> Ok, I made the umask to be strict on the entire 'test' directory
> (recursively), and ran the "make test", and then "prove -lbv

You most certainly want -bv and not -lbv.

> failing_cases "....and some of the warnings/errors went away.
> However, there are still some more errors left (See Results shown
> below).
> 
> Since some of these errors (See Results below) are indicating that
> they are known issues with GnuPG 1.0.1, it begs the following
> questions:
> 
> 	1) What is the significance of the term "...known issues with GnuPG
> 1.0.1..." (i.e., known to RT developers? or known to the GnuPG
> developers?)


Neither. To the original developer of GnuPg interface, a CPAN module
written to let Perl applications talk to GnuPg.  You may note that we
now maintain thatm odule but that we didn't originally write it.

> 	2) I have installed GnuPG 2.0.13, and do not have GnuPG 1.xx
> installed on my machine. Therefore why is it complaining about GnuPG
> 1.0.1? 

It's a hardcoded warning statement in the test files. And unrelated
here.

> Again, note 			that I have only created a symbolic link for
> the executable "gpg"  (supposedly the executable for GnuPG 1.x) to
> point to "gpg2" (GnuPG 2.0.13). I only did 		this as "perl
> Malefile.PL" for CPAN's GnuPG-Interface would not have gone ahead,
> as it obviously needed "gpg".

That's what might be referred to as "an end run around a safety
mechanism"  GnuPg::Interface wasn't designed to work with gpg2 and they
changed the API/CLI, which is part of what gets something a different
executable name.

In particular, gpg 1 outputs timestames as ISO dates and gpg 2 outputs
them as seconds since the epoch.

As it happens, I had a few minutes today and did the work to support
GPG2 in GnuPg::Interface. Can you try out:

http://pause.perl.org/incoming/GnuPG-Interface-0.41_01.tar.gz

and report back?  If it's more than a few hours, you'll find that file
at search.cpan.org.

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