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

My gut feeling is that it is a permission problem. CPAN 1.7602 is
*quite* old and had no good error messages for perrmission problems.
So if you can somehow install stable 1.9205 or developer release
1.92_62 manually and then retry I'd expect the error messages will
give you more clue.

hi, i've been using cpan for several years with very few problems, i
just tried to upgrate my CPAN install and got a lot of failures. I'm
running FC6 on an AMD opteron machine. could someone give me a hint
how i might fix this?

thx in advance.

DIED. FAILED tests 1-29
Failed 29/29 tests, 0.00%% okay
t/14gzopen......Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or
string at /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Scalar/
Util.pm...

I've setup rsync mirroring:

/usr/bin/rsync -av --delete ftp.funet.fi::CPAN /cpan-mirror/ >/var/log/cpan-mirror.log 2>&1

The following is in my CPANPLUS/Config/System.pm file:

$conf->set_conf( hosts => [
{
'path' => '/cpan-mirror',
'scheme' => 'file',
'host' => ''
}
] );

Tracking access to the mirror I see installs coming from the mirror:

net1#inotifywait -m -r -e create,open,delete --format '%%e %%f' /cpan-mirror
Setting up watches. Beware: since -r was given, this may take a while!
Watches established.
OPEN Thread-Suspend-1.17.tar.gz
OPEN CHECKSUMS
OPEN CHECKSUMS

Also 'x --update_source' works well.

I am working on AIX 5.3 and wanted to try use WWW::Mechanize to access
some web sites.

I Installed Perl and then ran "cpan". I am not sure I ran everything
correctly and would like to clear off the first "cpan" config and run
another. The main issue is where "cpan" was installed and I have some
issues with the "cpan" urls.

How do I cleanly remove the first install and start over?

Jay