On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:48:08PM +0100, Andreas J Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:06:07 -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL > >>>>> PROTECTED]> said: > > > 5.8.6-RC1 has CPAN version 1.76_01; an install Bundle::CPAN will > > downgrade it to 1.76 from CPAN.
I misspoke. CPAN downloaded and built the old CPAN verison (at which point I interrupted it), but when allowed to proceed didn't actually install it. Sorry for the noise. Nevertheless, I find it a little incongruous that a version is not good enough to be called stable but is good enough to be included in a perl maintenance release :) > I cannot reproduce that and I would not expect this to happen. Can you > post the recipe how to reproduce? > > I just did an 'install Bundle::CPAN' on top of unaltered 5.8.6-RC1. > After that I see this: > > cpan> m CPAN > Module id = CPAN > DESCRIPTION Perl Archive browse and download > CPAN_USERID ANDK (Andreas J. Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > CPAN_VERSION 1.76 > CPAN_FILE A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.76.tar.gz > DSLI_STATUS RdpO (released,developer,perl,object-oriented) > MANPAGE CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites > INST_FILE /usr/local/perl-5.8.6-RC1/lib/5.8.6/CPAN.pm > INST_VERSION 1.76_01 > > > -- > andreas
