Alien::Build plugin to prompt a user before making external download
In your ~/.alienbuild/rc.pl
preload 'Fetch::Prompt';
1;
This plugin allows you to force Alien::Build to prompt the user and ask for permission
before downloading anything from the internet. It uses the ExtUtils::MakeMaker prompt
function, so that it will do the sensible thing, like not infinitely halt install on
non-interactive installs. The default response is yes
, which is usually reasonable
(and the default if you do not use this plugin at all), but you may change this by using
the ALIEN_DOWNLOAD
environment variable (see below).
Set this environment variable to the default response. Should be either yes
or no
.
This plugin depends on the alienfile using the appropriate channels for downloading external
libraries. It is perfectly legal to write a alienfile that downloads using an external
program like wget
or curl
, or not go through the normal fetch plugin. There is also
nothing stopping someone from doing something nefarious when installing a cpan module. If you
have strict security requirements you really should audit the alienfile and other Perl code
that you are using.
Graham Ollis plicease@cpan.org
This software is copyright (c) 2017-2022 by Graham Ollis.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.