Bug 1122368

Summary:	Missing perl-Time-HiRes requirement
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Steven Moix <steven.moix>
Component:	perl	Assignee:	Petr Pisar <ppisar>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Martin Kyral <mkyral>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.0	CC:	georgios, isenfeld, jorton, lists, mkyral, ppisar
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	EasyFix, Patch
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Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	perl-5.16.3-284.el7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Cause: Running cpan(1) tool for the first time while perl-Time-HiRes and perl-local-lib packages are not installed. Consequence: The tool crashes because Time::HiRes or local::lib Perl module is not available. Fix: Run-time dependency on perl(Time::HiRes) has been added into perl package, run-time dependency on perl(local::lib) has been added into perl-CPAN package. Result: When cpan(1) tool is installed it will pull in all needed dependencies.	Story Points:	---
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Clones:	1122498 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2015-03-05 07:55:22 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Steven Moix 2014-07-23 05:43:32 UTC

perl-Time-HiRes seems to be a missing requirement when configuring cpan for the first time.

See https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=7417 for the details and reproduction steps.

Comment 2 Petr Pisar 2014-07-23 09:08:54 UTC

This is a bug in `perl' package. The package should run-require `perl(Time::HiRes)' because Net::Ping module's hires() subroutine loads Time::HiRes:

$hires = 0;
sub hires
{
  my $self = shift;
  $hires = 1 unless defined
    ($hires = ((defined $self) && (ref $self)) ? shift() : $self);
  require Time::HiRes if $hires;
}

Comment 3 Petr Pisar 2014-07-23 09:38:27 UTC

There is another issue after proceeding next:

Can't locate local/lib.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /root/perl5/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /root/perl5/lib/perl5 /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /root) at /usr/share/perl5/CPAN/FirstTime.pm line 1300.

The CPAN::FirstTime module offers local::lib by default if site directories do not exist:

sub _local_lib_config {
    # Set environment stuff for this process
    require local::lib;
    [...]
}

perl-CPAN sub-package should run-require `perl(local::lib)' too.

Comment 4 Petr Pisar 2014-07-23 09:47:12 UTC

How to test:

(1) # yum remove perl
(2) # yum install /usr/bin/cpan
(3) # rm -rf ~/.cpan
(4) # cpan </dev/null
Before:
  The reported message is printed and the `cpan' command dies with a non-zero
  exit code.
After:
  The `cpan' command succeeds.

Comment 8 George B. Magklaras 2014-09-01 10:32:27 UTC

Yes, the failing requirement is true. Until this is fixed, a simple yum -y install perl-Time-HiRes should be enough to remedy the issue. I cron-ed it on newly installed RHEL and CentOS 7 boxes and no further problems were raised.

Comment 9 Petr Pisar 2014-10-21 05:29:14 UTC

*** Bug 1154741 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 07:55:22 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-0338.html