On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Ken Williams wrote:
Think about what would happen if Satan uploaded a malicious distribution
called PathTools with a higher version number than mine. You'd want
the whole world to get Satan's distribution by default, just so they can
save a couple keystrokes?
Any
Well, I'm glad someone brought this up.
I've always gotten the CPAN shell's i and install commands mixed up
and have often wanted to pass a distribution name to it. First, the
online help (? command) and error messages are not entirely helpful.
Second, i appears too much like a shortcut for
Also, lack of distname support is overblowing the situation.
Distnames are supported perfectly fine as long as you put it in the
proper syntax with author's ID and version.
I think the problem Jim encountered is that proper syntax is part of the
arcana of CPAN. It's not obvious from the
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:51:42 -0500, James E Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I'm wondering if my diagnosis of the following annoying problem is correct.
When I use the CPAN shell to install a distribution which does not
include a package with the name of the distribution, the shell
Randy Kobes wrote:
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, James E Keenan wrote:
[snip]
Note that, if you know the distribtion you want to
install, CPAN.pm understands
cpan install KWILLIAMS/PathTools-3.14.tar.gz
That's the step I was looking for: what to do once the 'i /somemodule/'
command returns
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
I don't think many people would appreciate getting something installed
they didn't explicitly ask for.
Hmmm. I can have extra pain every time I'm installing something to avoid
occassionally getting something I don't want or I can have pain every
On Nov 21, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Christopher Hicks wrote:
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
I don't think many people would appreciate getting something
installed they didn't explicitly ask for.
Hmmm. I can have extra pain every time I'm installing something to
avoid
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Chris Dolan wrote:
If CPAN made it easy to install unintended software by mistake, that
would be a huge security hole. Some people run cpan as root.
Defensive programming is absolutely the right thing here.
And how exactly would a shortcut that says oh you asked for
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Christopher Hicks wrote:
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Chris Dolan wrote:
If CPAN made it easy to install unintended software by mistake, that would
be a huge security hole. Some people run cpan as root. Defensive
programming is absolutely the right thing here.
And how exactly
On Nov 21, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Christopher Hicks wrote:
Hmmm. I can have extra pain every time I'm installing something to
avoid occassionally getting something I don't want or I can have pain
every thousandth time I install something because oopsie I got
something extra. It doesn't seem
I'm wondering if my diagnosis of the following annoying problem is correct.
When I use the CPAN shell to install a distribution which does not
include a package with the name of the distribution, the shell
immediately tells me to use the 'i /distroname/' to find objects with
matching
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, James E Keenan wrote:
I'm wondering if my diagnosis of the following annoying problem is correct.
When I use the CPAN shell to install a distribution which does not include a
package with the name of the distribution, the shell immediately tells me to
use the 'i
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