Bug 609492

Summary:	unknown option fork with prove
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Boris Ranto <branto>
Component:	perl	Assignee:	perl-maint-list
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Petr Šplíchal <psplicha>
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Version:	6.0	CC:	ohudlick, ovasik, psplicha
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Description Boris Ranto 2010-06-30 12:37:25 UTC

Description of problem:
Command prove (part of perl-Test-Harness) ignore --fork option even though the option is documented in prove --help and manual page for prove.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
perl-Test-Harness-3.17-109.el6.x86_64
perl-5.10.1-109.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run prove --help or man help and look for --fork part.
2. Run prove --fork

Actual results:
prove --fork returns:
Unknown option: fork
Unable to continue at /usr/bin/prove line 10

Expected results:
prove accepts option fork or the fork option is not specified in man and prove --help

Additional info:

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2010-06-30 13:03:07 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.

Comment 4 Petr Pisar 2010-06-30 13:14:21 UTC

# prove --version
TAP::Harness v3.17 and Perl v5.10.1

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/ANDYA/Test-Harness-3.17/Changes:
Revision history for Test-Harness
3.17    2009-05-05
[...]
        - Remove support for fork-based parallel testing. Multiplexed
          parallel testing remains.

(Note that TAP::Harness is alias to Test::Harness.)
We will remove any occurrences of --fork option.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 11:37:45 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0558.html

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 13:08:08 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0558.html