Re: installing from MARC-Lint or Errorchecks from CPAN
On 23/feb/06, at 20:36, Bryan Baldus wrote: I've received word that there may be a problem with installing MARC::Lint and MARC::Errorchecks from CPAN. The person reporting the error says that typing install MARC::Lint in CPAN does not update the module as one would expect. I don't have access to CPAN myself. Are others experiencing this problem? Is there something wrong with the way I packaged the module distributions that would cause this? Thank you, Bryan Baldus Dear Bryan, this is what I obtained with my Mac OS X 10.3.9 installation. HTH. Stefano root# perl -e 'use MARC::Lint' root# perl -MCPAN -eshell cpan install MARC::Lint (...) Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.edisontel.it/pub/CPAN_Mirror/modules/03modlist.data.gz Going to read /var/root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz Going to write /var/root/.cpan/Metadata Warning: Cannot install MARC::Lint, don't know what it is. Try the command i /MARC::Lint/ to find objects with matching identifiers. cpan i /MARC::Lint/ CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /var/root/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:41:10 GMT Module id = MARC::Lint::CodeData CPAN_USERID EIJABB (Bryan Baldus [EMAIL PROTECTED]) CPAN_VERSION 1.04 CPAN_FILEE/EI/EIJABB/MARC-Errorchecks-1.10.tar.gz INST_FILE(not installed) cpan q Lockfile removed.
Re: installing from MARC-Lint or Errorchecks from CPAN
...and what that means is that CPAN was only able to find MARC-Errorchecks as a match for /MARC::Lint/, not because it supplies that module, but because it itself contains MARC::Lint::CodeData. Installing/upgrading MARC-Errorchecks will not get you the freshest MARC::Lint. I'm no expert in CPAN packaging either, unfortunately. This is not typical behavior, though. Cory Snavely University of Michigan Library IT Core Services bargioni wrote: On 23/feb/06, at 20:36, Bryan Baldus wrote: I've received word that there may be a problem with installing MARC::Lint and MARC::Errorchecks from CPAN. The person reporting the error says that typing install MARC::Lint in CPAN does not update the module as one would expect. I don't have access to CPAN myself. Are others experiencing this problem? Is there something wrong with the way I packaged the module distributions that would cause this? Thank you, Bryan Baldus Dear Bryan, this is what I obtained with my Mac OS X 10.3.9 installation. HTH. Stefano root# perl -e 'use MARC::Lint' root# perl -MCPAN -eshell cpan install MARC::Lint (...) Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.edisontel.it/pub/CPAN_Mirror/modules/03modlist.data.gz Going to read /var/root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz Going to write /var/root/.cpan/Metadata Warning: Cannot install MARC::Lint, don't know what it is. Try the command i /MARC::Lint/ to find objects with matching identifiers. cpan i /MARC::Lint/ CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /var/root/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:41:10 GMT Module id = MARC::Lint::CodeData CPAN_USERID EIJABB (Bryan Baldus [EMAIL PROTECTED]) CPAN_VERSION 1.04 CPAN_FILEE/EI/EIJABB/MARC-Errorchecks-1.10.tar.gz INST_FILE(not installed) cpan q Lockfile removed.
Re: installing from MARC-Lint or Errorchecks from CPAN
When I downloaded the tarball and installed manually I noticed that the the MANIFEST references a META.yml file, but the tarball doesn't include one. Perhaps this is somehow choking up CPAN? The 'make dist' command should generate a META.yml file for you. I would ask on the cpan-discuss [1] list to see if you can get any guidance from the CPAN admins though. It might be totally unrelated to META.yml. //Ed [1] http://lists.cpan.org/showlist.cgi?name=cpan-discuss
