Test::CheckManifest3pm

ok_manifest [{exclude => $arref}][$msg]

checks whether the Manifest file matches the distro or not. To match a distro the Manifest has to name all files that come along with the distribution.

To check the Manifest file, this module searches for a file named "MANIFEST".

To exclude some directories from this test, you can specify these dirs in the hashref.

  ok_manifest({exclude => ['/var/test/']});

is ok if the files in "/path/to/your/dist/var/test/" are not named in the "MANIFEST" file. That means that the paths in the exclude array must be "pseudo-absolute" (absolute to your distribution).

To use a "filter" you can use the key "filter"

  ok_manifest({filter => [qr/\.svn/]});

With that you can exclude all files with an '.svn' in the filename or in the path from the test.

These files would be excluded (as examples):

You can also combine "filter" and "exclude" with 'and' or 'or' default is 'or':

  ok_manifest({exclude => ['/var/test'],
               filter  => [qr/\.svn/],
               bool    => 'and'});

These files have to be named in the "MANIFEST":

These files not:

By default, "ok_manifest" will look for the file "MANIFEST" in the current working directory (which is how tests are traditionally run). If you wish to specify a different directory, you may pass the "file" or "dir" parameters, for example:

  ok_manifest({dir => '/path/to/my/dist/'});