880227 - Install of Bugzilla DBI module fails due to mirror.hiwaay.net not being available

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: Installation & Upgrading, defect)

Description

[marshall kitchell]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.94 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Download latest stable release from bugzilla.org (Bugzilla 4.4). Went thru the install-module DBI perl call and the call failed on the checksum for the download of the DBI gz file. 


Actual results:

The site that the software is trying to access was unavailable. We called www.hiwaay.net (phone at [phone] or Toll-Free at [phone]) and was told that the mirror was taken down (person supporting mirror no longer words there). The mirror that the software was trying to access is:
TEXT: http://mirror.hiwaay.net/CPAN/

as a result, we could not successfully install the DBI module. To fix it locally, we removed that mirror site from the list of potential download mirrors. After, we were successful at installing the DBI module.


Expected results:

software should download the DBI gz file successfully during install of module

Comment 1

[:glob ✱]

here's the sites in Bugzilla/Install/CPAN.pm, and if they are still listed on http://www.cpan.org/SITES.html :

> http://cpan.pair.com/
yes
> http://mirror.hiwaay.net/CPAN/
no
> ftp://ftp.dc.aleron.net/pub/CPAN/
no
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/cpan/
no
> http://mirrors2.kernel.org/cpan/
no

not good.


http://www.cpan.org/ is a global load balance DNS record that directs to close tier-1 CPAN mirror, so we should just use that instead (according to https://github.com/gugod/App-perlbrew/pull/330 )

Comment 2

[Simon Green]

Attachment: v1 patch

Tested by running install-module.pl PatchReader, since Ubuntu 12.04 LTS doesn't come with this by default, and it seems to work fine.

Regards,
Hugo

Comment 3

[:glob ✱]

Comment on attachment 772014 [details] [diff] [review]
v1 patch

r=glob

> use List::Util qw(shuffle);

we no longer need to use this module, but that can be fixed on commit.

Comment 4

[Simon Green]

Committing to: bzr+ssh://bzr.mozilla.org/bugzilla/4.4/                         
modified Bugzilla/Install/CPAN.pm
Committed revision 8578.                                                       

Committing to: bzr+ssh://bzr.mozilla.org/bugzilla/trunk/                       
modified Bugzilla/Install/CPAN.pm
Committed revision 8653.