Perhaps you need to talk to the people who run the mirrors.
If it works okay just using the 'master' site then it's a mirror problem.
Tim.
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:22:38AM -0400, Hardy Merrill wrote:
> Slightly off topic, but...
>
> I've recently been playing with my CPAN module configuration
> trying to come up with CPAN sites in my general vacinity that
> I can use with CPAN to install perl modules - specifically
> DBI and DBD modules. Since Tim recently announced new versions
> of DBI and DBD::Oracle, I've been trying to use CPAN to grab
> and install those recent versions, but the mirrors I chose
> don't seem to have the most recent versions. This morning,
> must be close to a week after Tim released DBI and DBD::Oracle,
> my "m DBI" CPAN command turned up this:
>
> cpan> m DBI
> Module id = DBI
> DESCRIPTION Generic Database Interface (see DBD modules)
> CPAN_USERID TIMB (Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
> CPAN_VERSION 1.19
> CPAN_FILE T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.19.tar.gz
> DSLI_STATUS amcO (alpha,mailing-list,C,object-oriented)
> MANPAGE DBI - Database independent interface for Perl
> INST_FILE /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/DBI.pm
> INST_VERSION 1.20
>
>
> cpan> m DBD::Oracle
> Module id = DBD::Oracle
> DESCRIPTION Oracle Driver for DBI
> CPAN_USERID TIMB (Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
> CPAN_VERSION 1.08
> CPAN_FILE T/TI/TIMB/DBD-Oracle-1.08.tar.gz
> DSLI_STATUS MmcO (mature,mailing-list,C,object-oriented)
> MANPAGE DBD::Oracle - Oracle database driver for the DBI module
> INST_FILE /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/DBD/Oracle.pm
> INST_VERSION 1.12
>
> The only reason you see recent installed versions of those 2
> modules is because I went to www.cpan.org myself, found them
> under "recent uploads", and downloaded them and installed them.
>
> Am I the only one having trouble finding a "current" CPAN
> mirror? Any suggestions?
>
> TIA.
>
> Hardy Merrill
> Mission Critical Linux, Inc.
> http://www.missioncriticallinux.com
