[Ltib] Re: Perl download from bitshrine is broken, perl won't build

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Mark,

Regarding: perl-5.8.0-Glob.pm.simple-2

I'd not forgotten about this, it just took a while to go through ISP
support iterations.

Here's what has happened.  I looked into it and it turns out that the
ISP (globat) use Apache and the way it is set up, any file that includes
a '.pm' in the filename (anywhere) will cause the server to try to
execute it.  This fails and it doesn't return an error, it actually
returns an html file that contains a message about a 500 internal server
error.  

Despite a number of attempts at asking, I didn't get a satisfactory
reply from the ISP's support.  I thought that it should be possible to
have a local .htaccess file to change this behaviour.  Unfortunately I'm
not an ace at Apache config files, so I don't know how to fix this.

As a work-around I've copied the original file to one called:
perl-5.8.0-Glob_pm.simple-2 which gets downloaded okay.  I've also
updated the reference from perl.spec.

Also I changed bin/Ltibutils.pm so that if a .md5 file exists, but the
verification fails, it now causes ltib to die, rather than just warn.
This should help catch anything like this in the future.

Regards, Stuart

On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 08:38 +0000, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> I'm still working on this.  I know you've moved on, but I thought I'd
> give an update.
> 
> Regards, Stuart
> 
> On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 09:44 +0000, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> > 
> > I just checked what wget downloaded and it was simply a "
> > Internal Server Error" page, so sorry for misleading you there.
> > 
> > I'm in contact with the ISP to try to resolve this.  In the mean time,
> > I've attached a copy.  Please put this in to your LPP
> > (/opt/freescale/pkgs or /opt/ltib/pkgs (for new savannah versions).  
> > 
> > Regards, Stuart

> > > 
> > > On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 00:42 -0800, mark.lacas wrote:
> > > > Stuart,
> > > >   The perl module for ltib doesn't work.
> > > > Evidently the tar is missing or has the wrong permissions.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Internal Server Error
> > > >  Unable to
> > > > execute 
> > > > /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/bitshrine.org/httpdocs/gpp/perl-5.8.0-Glob.pm.simple-2:
> > > >  Permission denied.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Thought you would want to know.
> > > > 
> > > > Ciao,
> > > > 
> > > > ml
> > > > 
> > > >