Hi,

I intended to submit a bug for the Tk module, via the CPAN web
interface, using firefox.
I tried thus to login, but got an error such as:

Secure Connection Failed
rt.cpan.org uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown.
(Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)
* This could be a problem with the server's configuration, or it
could be someone trying to impersonate the server.
* If you have connected to this server successfully in the past,
the error may be temporary, and you can try again later.
Or you can add an exception…

Does anybody else meet this problem?
Thanks,

Marc

Hi guys,

i am new to this list, bit I am hoping someone can help me.

I am pulling my hair out here! I am trying to get CPAN to connect through our proxy server but no matter how much o conf seems to show the right settings when i try and do something i still get

'
Connecting to bloxxy|172.19.1.253|:3128... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 407 Proxy Authentication Required
14:48:12 ERROR 407: Proxy Authentication Required.
'

Can anyone give me some pointers?

Thank you!

Hi. I am looking into setting up something analogous to CPAN for
another language (Common Lisp). One thing I was wondering about, that
I have not been able to find out, is who pays for running CPAN? It
seems to me that there must be some costs for hosting, DNS
registration, disk space, mirrors, and the sysadmin work that such a
repository would inevitably require. Is this all done on a volunteer
basis, with contributed systems that are administered by someone else,
etc? Or is there some organization helping out financially?

Thanks very much.

-- Dan Weinreb

When I first set up cpan installer, it asked me to select from a list
of ftp sites it will use to do downloads. Now I found many of what I
selected are hard to connect -- I often need to wait for hours for the
failed connect to pass. I wish to update the list but cannot find it
in "/root/.cpan" location. Could someone suggest how can I update the
ftp site list?

Thanks!
Zhiliang

Hello,

The description of this list says that it is for non-technical questions
regarding CPAN. Isn't everything about CPAN technical? What would be an
example of a non-technical question (except this question itself)?

I guess here is a non-technical question, Where do I go to ask
semi-technical questions like the one below?

"I keep trying to install modules using CPAN and they seem to download
alright, but I keep getting error messages like the following when it runs
make...
make: Warning: File `Makefile' has modification time 4.6e+05 s in the future
make[1]: warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete.

I have checked my system time and it is valid.
I have checked my make program /usr/bin/make and its date is in the past.
I have check the date and time of the downloaded perl modules and their
makefile dates are also in the past. What is wrong? Any ideas"

Regards,

Keith

Hi there,

is there any way to remove all the CPAN modules and reinstall
Bundle::CPAN from scratch?

Cheers,

Noah

okay now cpan is failing builds again?

any clues on this?

noah@noah-t43 ~
$ perl -MCPAN -e shell

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.7602)
ReadLine support enabled

CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/noah/.cpan/Metadata
Database was generated on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:06:48 GMT
Proc::ProcessTable is up to date.

RPC::XML is up to date.

On 11 Jun 2008, at 15:49, Noah wrote:

tar is getting an unquoted pathname containing spaces - so it sees the
name as three distinct arguments.

A local fix would be to move your cygwin cpan to ~/.cpan (which
probably maps to something like C:\cygwin\home\noah\.cpan in Windows)
- no spaces.

Hi there,

I cannot appear to untar. Any clues what I have misconfigured?

................................................................................
................................................................................
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224 subroutines redefined

CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/noah/.cpan/Metadata
Database was generated on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:06:48 GMT
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent...

Hi there,

is there an updated list of cpan mirrors/servers hostnames? Please send
me the URL if there is.

Cheers,

Noah