Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with perl -MCPAN -e shell; fails with 02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header

2005-03-01 Thread John Morrison (Cygwin)
On Mon, February 28, 2005 9:51 pm, Gerrit P. Haase said: The user may want to use a different directory as repository and build directory. It should be done during the initial configuration, however I'm not sure if is worth the time to implement it. Since there are two or three rreports

Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with perl -MCPAN -e shell; fails with 02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header

2005-03-01 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:51:44PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: John Morrison wrote: On Mon, February 28, 2005 12:19 pm, Stephan Petersen said: Hi Gerrit, thanks for your and all the others' replies. - The CPAN repository and build directory *must* reside in a path mounted in

Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with perl -MCPAN -e shell; fails with 02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header

2005-03-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: If they want a different directory, it still doesn't hurt to force ~/.cpan to binmode (except in so far as it uses up the AIUI limited number of mounts). I'd advocate putting it in a postinstall script. Yes, it does sometimes. There used a

Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with perl -MCPAN -e shell; fails with 02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header

2005-03-01 Thread John Morrison
On Tue, March 1, 2005 2:47 pm, Igor Pechtchanski said: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: If they want a different directory, it still doesn't hurt to force ~/.cpan to binmode (except in so far as it uses up the AIUI limited number of mounts). I'd advocate putting it in a

(RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with perl -MCPAN -e shell; fails with 02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header

2005-02-28 Thread Stephan Petersen
Hi Gerrit, thanks for your and all the others' replies. - The CPAN repository and build directory *must* reside in a path mounted in binmode: mount -s -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan mount -u -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan That seems to

Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with perl -MCPAN -e shell; fails with 02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header

2005-02-28 Thread John Morrison
On Mon, February 28, 2005 12:19 pm, Stephan Petersen said: Hi Gerrit, thanks for your and all the others' replies. - The CPAN repository and build directory *must* reside in a path mounted in binmode: mount -s -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan mount -u -b

Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with perl -MCPAN -e shell; fails with 02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header

2005-02-28 Thread Stephan Petersen
Could something along these lines be done in the postinstall for perl? (Only if the mount doesn't exist of cause...) Alternatively, maybe the CPAN module could issue a warning when it's running under cygwin using a textmode-mounted .cpan directory. Stephan -- Stephan Petersen [EMAIL

Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with perl -MCPAN -e shell; fails with 02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header

2005-02-28 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
John Morrison wrote: On Mon, February 28, 2005 12:19 pm, Stephan Petersen said: Hi Gerrit, thanks for your and all the others' replies. - The CPAN repository and build directory *must* reside in a path mounted in binmode: mount -s -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan