Re: [Module::Build] Module::Build installation problem: Interaction with cpan shell and gpg

[James K. <jk...@ve...>]

On Apr 30, 2006, at 4:35 PM, Ken Williams wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> I just downloaded M::B 0.28 and checked the validity of the signature, 
> and it looks okay to me.  I don't think it's treating me special 
> because I created it either.
>
> It sounds to me like the most likely culprit is Module::Signature and 
> your gpg setup.  Here's what the permissions on my ~/.gnupg directory 
> look like:
>
>
> % ls -al ~/.gnupg
> total 176
> drwx------    8 ken  ken    272 Apr  5 22:30 ./
> drwxr-xr-x   73 ken  ken   2482 Apr 30 14:16 ../
> -rw-------    1 ken  ken   7850 Apr 25  2004 gpg.conf
> -rw-------    1 ken  ken  33556 Apr  5 22:07 pubring.gpg
> -rw-------    1 ken  ken  31730 Apr  5 22:05 pubring.gpg~
> -rw-------    1 ken  ken    600 Apr 27 23:14 random_seed
> -rw-------    1 ken  ken   1168 Apr 25  2004 secring.gpg
> -rw-------    1 ken  ken   1840 Apr  5 22:07 trustdb.gpg
>
> Does that match yours?  Note that the directory and every file in it 
> have no permissions for group & other.
>
>

My permissions match yours exactly (though I don't have a random_seed 
or secring.gpg file in that directory).

PathTools is another distro that fails in the same way.  I'm beginning 
to think that the distros that do the right thing -- have a signature 
-- are the distros on which my cpan shell will fail.

jimk