If I try this I get an error; cpan[1]> reports VPIT/Variable-Magic-0.51.tar.gz Reading '/home/michiel/.cpan/Metadata' Database was generated on Thu, 25 Oct 2012 05:07:04 GMT Distribution: V/VP/VPIT/Variable-Magic-0.51.tar.gz Fetching 'http://www.cpantesters.org/show/Variable-Magic.yaml'...DONE
Catching error: "CPAN::Exception::yaml_process_error=HASH(0xc379e68)" at /home/michiel/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.17.5/lib/5.17.5/CPAN.pm line 392. CPAN::shell() called at /home/michiel/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.17.5/lib/5.17.5/App/Cpan.pm line 295 App::Cpan::_process_options('App::Cpan') called at /home/michiel/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.17.5/lib/5.17.5/App/Cpan.pm line 364 App::Cpan::run('App::Cpan') called at /home/michiel/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.17.5/bin/cpan line 11 The file I get if I go tho the mentioned URL http://www.cpantesters.org/show/Variable-Magic.yaml manually, is 200k lines long, and it also contains results for earlier versions of Variable-Magic. Is that to be expected? -- Michiel