Item13403: no copytree() method in debian package or tarball

-- VMcIntyre - 14 May 2015

I installed foswiki-1.1.9 from your debian repository.

When I run localhost/foswiki/bin/configure I am rewarded with this error message.

  Can't locate object method "copytree" via package "Foswiki::Configure::Checkers::WorkingDir" at /var/lib/foswiki/lib/Foswiki/Configure/Checkers/WorkingDir.pm line 78.

This is because there is no file that implements copytree().

  % grep -rci copytree /var/lib/foswiki |grep -v :0$
  /var/lib/foswiki/lib/Foswiki/Configure/Checkers/WorkingDir.pm:1

The same goes for the tarball which I downloaded from the link to sourceforge on your packages page. It's not provided by Perl's File::Util.

I got things unstuck again by getting the file from git

$ git clone https://github.com/foswiki/distro.git; cd distro
$ cp core/lib/Foswiki/Configure/FileUtil.pm /var/lib/foswiki/lib/Foswiki/Configure/FileUtil.pm
# vi var/lib/foswiki/lib/Foswiki/Configure/Checkers/WorkingDir.pm

The patch I made was;

--- /var/lib/foswiki/lib/Foswiki/Configure/Checkers/WorkingDir.pm.orig  2015-05-14 10:50:18.000000000 +1000
+++ /var/lib/foswiki/lib/Foswiki/Configure/Checkers/WorkingDir.pm       2015-05-14 10:49:05.000000000 +1000
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 use warnings;
 
 use Foswiki::Configure::Checker ();
+use Foswiki::Configure::Checker::FileUtil ();
 our @ISA = ('Foswiki::Configure::Checker');
 
 sub untaint {

-- VMcIntyre - 14 May 2015

Wow, That's been broken since 1.1.0, it appears some cleanup early in 1.1 removed that routine from lib/Foswiki/Configure/Checker.pm. Your fix is good, as the code has been added back into the upcoming 1.2.0. So this can be marked as fixed in 1.2., once 1.2 is released.

-- GeorgeClark - 14 May 2015

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