Re: Unable to install via 'cpan' due to 'cpan_path' missing from CHECKSUMS
On 3/1/22 13:48, Andreas Koenig wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 10:23:12 -0500, James E Keenan said: > Warning: checksum file > '/root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/N/NE/NEILB/CHECKSUMS' not conforming. Please upgrade to CPAN-2.33-TRIAL.tar.gz which you find on CPAN in my directory https://www.cpan.org/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/ Thanks, that appears to work. I see that a version 2.33 has already been synched into Perl 5 blead. Do you have a timeline for a separate release of 2.33 to CPAN?
Re: Unable to install via 'cpan' due to 'cpan_path' missing from CHECKSUMS
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 10:23:12 -0500, James E Keenan > said: > Warning: checksum file > '/root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/N/NE/NEILB/CHECKSUMS' not conforming. Please upgrade to CPAN-2.33-TRIAL.tar.gz which you find on CPAN in my directory https://www.cpan.org/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/ -- andreas
Unable to install via 'cpan' due to 'cpan_path' missing from CHECKSUMS
On a machine where I have root privileges, I wish to test (then later install) Carp::Assert using the `cpan` client. I encounter this failure: # $ sudo cpan -t Carp::Assert Password: Loading internal logger. Log::Log4perl recommended for better logging Reading '/root/.cpan/Metadata' Database was generated on Tue, 01 Mar 2022 13:17:03 GMT Running test for module 'Carp::Assert' CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v6.02) Warning: checksum file '/root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/N/NE/NEILB/CHECKSUMS' not conforming. The cksum does not contain the key 'cpan_path' for 'Carp-Assert-0.21.tar.gz'. Proceed nonetheless? [no] no Aborted. # When I examine the CHECKSUMS files beneath /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id, I see that only a handful of them have the string 'cpan_path' in them. # $ find /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id -type f -name 'CHECKSUMS' | xargs grep -l cpan_path |sort | xargs ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 33696 Nov 23 20:30 /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CHECKSUMS -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 29147 Mar 1 14:48 /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AR/ARC/CHECKSUMS -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 22123 Mar 1 14:48 /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AS/ASB/CHECKSUMS -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 57924 Feb 20 23:08 /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/E/EX/EXODIST/CHECKSUMS -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel9931 Mar 1 14:48 /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/M/MI/MICKEY/CHECKSUMS -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 38818 Feb 20 23:08 /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/N/NE/NEZUMI/CHECKSUMS -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 310938 Mar 1 14:48 /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/O/OA/OALDERS/CHECKSUMS -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 154626 Dec 1 18:12 /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/R/RU/RURBAN/CHECKSUMS -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 200948 Dec 1 18:07 /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/Y/YV/YVES/CHECKSUMS # This means that I would be unable to install even my own CPAN modules! I believe I have followed all the guidance provided by Neil Bowers in his blog post http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2021/11/addressing-cpan-vulnerabilities-related-to-checksums.html. So I would like to know how to update these CHECKSUMS files or otherwise cope with this problem. Thank you very much. Jim Keenan
