------------------------------------------------ On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 08:25:30 -0800, Deb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sometimes I really hate using cpan. It's 'help' isn't much. It's been since > last october that I touched my cpan stuff, and now it's out of date. It's > currently at v1.60. I wanted to upgrade, so I did a "make Bundle::CPAN", > which is supposed to do a get first. > I wonder if the fact that you are using 'make' instead of 'install' is causing this problem. It might only try and make the last version it knew about, rather than looking to see what the newest version is. Try doing "install Bundle::CPAN" instead. > BUT, my cpan thinks that it needs to get v1.63, > > > Can't open CPAN-1.63.tar.gz: No such file or directory > Bad luck... Still failed! > Can't access URL > ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.63.tar.gz. > > Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file () are valid. > The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/' > You should enter more than one url when configuring CPAN, the mirror you have listed above is a very busy one and I can not access it currently because there are to many users. Try adding 6-7 if you run into this problem consistently, try one that is close to your geographical location as well. You might try blowing away your .cpan and reconfiguring, who knows. Just a couple of thoughts, HTH, http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
