Tonight I attempted to upload to PAUSE a trial version of a CPAN
distribution I maintain. I built and tested a tarball on my desktop,
then scp-ed the tarball to my Linode server. I then signed in to PAUSE
and put the URL to the tarball in the appropriate box. I usually expect
to get an upload notification within minutes and, soon thereafter, see
it entering the metabase log file. I have done CPAN uploads like this
many dozens of times.
Tonight, however, I did not get any upload notification email and did
not see the file entering metabase. Instead, after several hours, I got
an email from "PAUSE <upl...@pause.perl.org>" with this content:
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The URL
https://thenceforward.net/perl/modules/Devel-NYTProf/Devel-NYTProf-6.12_001.tar.gz,
requested for upload as J/JK/JKEENAN/Devel-NYTProf-6.12_001.tar.gz has
problems[.] I have retried to fetch it 8 times to no avail. I'll
continue to try until the maximum of 16
retries is reached. Then I'll give up to give room for a new trial.
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I incremented $VERSION and tried again. This did not appear to work.
I incremented $VERSION again and asked PAUSE to fetch the tarball
directly from my desktop -- i.e., not from my server. This succeeded.
The only thing which I think is different from my last CPAN upload is
that about a month ago I upgraded my server from http:// to https://. I
have not encountered any problems with the server since then. The file
permissions on the tarballs I was trying to upload are 0644 -- same as
all the other dozens of tarballs I've uploaded from that server.
Any ideas as to why I could not upload from my server (for the first
time in 18 years!)?
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
