On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 02:08 pm, Puneet Kishor wrote:
> > 2. cpan did something strange -- I fired up cpan and it promptly > reminded me that I should upgrade cpan itself as well as libnet. I > dutifully upgraded cpan to 1.63 and reloaded, and then asked it to > upgrade libnet. Lo and behold... I see cpan is trying to download 11 Mb > of Perl 5.8.0, This was something I got nailed by when 5.6.1 came out - it's to do with the latest CPAN 'require'ing the latest version of perl - as I remember CPAN won't install perl unless you go through the configure, make, make test, install sequence (which require a minimum of user input), however it will try to download perl everytime you run it. Annoying but not that harmful unless you're short on disk space. Have you looked on the CPAN web site to see if you can get an older copy of CPAN bundle? Robin
