Rebuilding a few hundred modules will take more than 15 minutes, especially if you have to download each one. I suppose you could modify sudoes to make it 8 hours.
------Original Message------ From: Andy Armstrong To: dhu...@hudes.org Cc: Eric Wilhelm Cc: module-authors@perl.org Sent: Jan 12, 2010 12:14 PM Subject: Re: avoid running CPAN as root On 12 Jan 2010, at 16:59, dhu...@hudes.org wrote: > While the idea of using sudo only at install time is nice, there are two > problems: > 1. Some modules require extra privileges at test time Do they? I've got 1213 distributions installed on this laptop. All using cpan and none of them required elevated privileges during testing. Which modules do this? > 2. Far more impact is that sudo requires that you enter your password each > time you invoke it. Therefore you will have to enter your password once > for each module you install. On any given module you may have 3 or 4 > prerequisites; if you update your modules to current once a quarter, you > will have dozens to install. Given the way that CPAN.pm operates you > can't just keep going and add each blib to your @INC and only do one sudo > session to run all the individual make installs. Often sudo will be configured with a 15 minute grace period which means you only need to authenticate for the first make install / ./Build install. -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with Nextel Direct Connect
