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Install Mail::SPF manually in Github Actions
There is a long-standing packaging issue with Mail::SPF that prevents cpanm from automatically installing it with non-root privileges. [1] It also seems that upstream is unwilling to patch the problem. Yet this package is very useful for checking SPF syntax. One does not simply reimplement the same thing by oneself. So what are our options? Fork it? Copy the code and maintain it in a Zonemaster::Engine::SPF namespace or similar? Or work around the bug? Fortunately, the Perl library in question is easy to find in distribution package repositories. It’s packaged by Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine Linux, FreeBSD at least. However, in Github Actions, all Perl modules are install from CPAN. That must be because the Perl module packages supplied by the OS are only built against the version of Perl packaged by said OS, and we are testing against multiple different versions of Perl that may be different from the packaged one. In order to keep that consistency, the best option is to install Mail::SPF from CPAN while adding the workaround documented in the library’s INSTALL file. [1]: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=34768
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