On Feb 8, 4:54 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas J. Koenig) wrote: > >>>>> On 8 Feb 2007 11:54:32 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > 1) What has happened to File::HomeDir? Has it been removed from CPAN? > > It's fine, but it is at version 0.64. For some reason you have a very > old index file. Please try 'reload index' and watch carefully the > output. Maybe your machine has a wrong date?
Ahhh, yes...'reload index' was the key for me. Unfortunately, I had a very stale mirror (ibiblio.org) as my first site. I then repopulated my cpan site list based on info from http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/henkp/ mirmon/cpan.html and thought my index would get updated automatically. Thanks for your help! > > 2) Why do some mirrors return a bogus .gz file? Is there anything > > that can be done to return a 404 instead of this automatically > > generated tarball? (Some sites correctly DO return a 404.) > > Because 0.58 is gone from many mirrors. True, but note below how this really confused cpan. At first I thought this was due to an auto-generated tarball, but instead it appears that the root of the problem is that there is no error checking when using 'lynx -source', which caused cpan to attempt an install anyway. Later, an 'upgrade' failed to notice that it needed to be installed. Only a manual 'install File::HomeDir' forced a successful installation. Running install for module File::HomeDir Running make for A/AD/ADAMK/File-HomeDir-0.58.tar.gz CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok Fetching with LWP: http://cpan.pair.com/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/File-HomeDir-0.58.tar.gz LWP failed with code[404] message[Not Found] Fetching with LWP: http://mirrors.kernel.org/cpan/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/File- HomeDir-0.58.tar.gz LWP failed with code[404] message[Not Found] Fetching with LWP: http://www.mednor.net/ftp/pub/mirrors/CPAN/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/ File-HomeDir-0.58.tar.gz LWP failed with code[404] message[Not Found] Fetching with LWP: http://mirror.sit.wisc.edu/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/File- HomeDir-0.58.tar.gz LWP failed with code[404] message[Not Found] Trying with "/usr/bin/lynx -source" to get http://cpan.pair.com/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/File- HomeDir-0.58.tar.gz Trying with "/usr/bin/lynx -source" to get http://cpan.pair.com/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/CHECKSUMS Package seems to come without Makefile.PL. (The test -f "/e/cpan/build/ADAMK000/Makefile.PL" returned false.) Writing one on our own (setting NAME to FileHomeDir) CPAN.pm: Going to build A/AD/ADAMK/File-HomeDir-0.58.tar.gz Writing Makefile for FileHomeDir /usr/bin/make -j3 -- OK Running make test Prepending /e/cpan/build/Scalar-List-Utils-1.19/blib/arch /e/cpan/ build/Scalar-List-Utils-1.19/blib/lib /e/cpan/build/PathTools-3.24/ blib/arch /e/cpan/build/PathTools-3.24/blib/lib to PERL5LIB. No tests defined for FileHomeDir extension. /usr/bin/make test -- OK Running make install Appending installation info to /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/perllocal.pod Writing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/FileHomeDir/.packlist /usr/bin/make install -j3 -- OK Marco
