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Where to post?

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:51:28 PDT

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

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too many errors on installation

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:25:03 PDT

Hi there,

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

Cheers,

Noah

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cpan build fails Can't call method "value" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.,8/IO/Uncompress/RawInflate.pm line 64.

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:08:29 PDT

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> install Proc::ProcessTable
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.

cpan>
cpan> install RPC::XML
RPC::XML is up to date.

cpan>
cpan>
cpan>
cpan> install SOAP::Lite
Running install for module SOAP::Lite
Running make for M/MK/MKUTTER/SOAP-Lite-0.710.06.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
Can't call method "value" on an undefined value at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.
8/IO/Uncompress/RawInflate.pm line 64.

cpan> install XML::RSS
Running install for module XML::RSS
Running make for S/SH/SHLOMIF/XML-RSS-1.33.tar.gz
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SH/SHLOMIF/XML-RSS-1.33.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SH/SHLOMIF/CHECKSUMS
Can't call method "value" on an undefined value at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.
8/IO/Uncompress/RawInflate.pm line 64.

cpan> install String::CRC32
Running install for module String::CRC32
Running make for S/SO/SOENKE/String-CRC32-1.4.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SO/SOENKE/String-CRC32-1.4.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SO/SOENKE/CHECKSUMS
Can't call method "value" on an undefined value at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.
8/IO/Uncompress/RawInflate.pm line 64.

cpan> install XML::Atom
Running install for module XML::Atom
Running make for M/MI/MIYAGAWA/XML-Atom-0.28.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MI/MIYAGAWA/XML-Atom-0.28.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MI/MIYAGAWA/CHECKSUMS
Can't call method "value" on an undefined value at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.
8/IO/Uncompress/RawInflate.pm line 64.

cpan> install Math::BigInt::GMP
Running install for module Math::BigInt::GMP
Running make for T/TE/TELS/math/Math-BigInt-GMP-1.24.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/T/TE/TELS/math/Math-BigInt-GMP-1.24.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/T/TE/TELS/math/CHECKSUMS
Can't call method "value" on an undefined value at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.
8/IO/Uncompress/RawInflate.pm line 64.

cpan>

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Re: cant untar

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:54:22 PDT

On 11 Jun 2008, at 15:49, Noah wrote:
> Scanning cache /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/noah/.cpan/build
> for sizes
> gzip: and.gz: No such file or directory
> gzip: Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/Bundle-
> CPAN-1.857.tar.gz:
> No such file or directory
> /usr/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> /usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

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.

--
Andy Armstrong, Hexten

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cant untar

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:49:29 PDT

Hi there,

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

cpan> reload cpan
................................................................................
................................................................................
................................................................
224 subroutines redefined

cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
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 loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/Bundle-CPAN-1.857.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CHECKSUMS
Checksum for /cygdrive/c/Documents and
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/
AN/ANDK/Bundle-CPAN-1.857.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/noah/.cpan/build for sizes
gzip: and.gz: No such file or directory
gzip:
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/Bundle-CPAN-1.857.tar.gz:
No such file or directory
/usr/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive
/usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Uncompressed /cygdrive/c/Documents and
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/
AN/ANDK/Bundle-CPAN-1.857.tar.gz successfully
Using Tar:/usr/bin/tar xvf /cygdrive/c/Documents and
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources
/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/Bundle-CPAN-1.857.tar:
/usr/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive
/usr/bin/tar: and: Not found in archive
/usr/bin/tar:
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/Bundle-CPAN-1.857
.tar: Not found in archive
/usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Couldn't untar /cygdrive/c/Documents and
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/
A/AN/ANDK/Bundle-CPAN-1.857.tar

cpan> install Expect
Running install for module Expect
Running make for R/RG/RGIERSIG/Expect-1.21.tar.gz
Checksum for /cygdrive/c/Documents and
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/R/
RG/RGIERSIG/Expect-1.21.tar.gz ok
gzip: and.gz: No such file or directory
gzip:
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/R/RG/RGIERSIG/Expect-1.21.tar.gz: N
o such file or directory
/usr/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive
/usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Uncompressed /cygdrive/c/Documents and
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/R/
RG/RGIERSIG/Expect-1.21.tar.gz successfully
Using Tar:/usr/bin/tar xvf /cygdrive/c/Documents and
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources
/authors/id/R/RG/RGIERSIG/Expect-1.21.tar:
/usr/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive
/usr/bin/tar: and: Not found in archive
/usr/bin/tar:
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/R/RG/RGIERSIG/Expect-1.21.t
ar: Not found in archive
/usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Couldn't untar /cygdrive/c/Documents and
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/
R/RG/RGIERSIG/Expect-1.21.tar

cpan> install DateTime
Running install for module DateTime
Running make for D/DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.4302.tar.gz
Checksum for /cygdrive/c/Documents and
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/D/
DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.4302.tar.gz ok
gzip: and.gz: No such file or directory
gzip:
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.4302.tar.gz
: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive
/usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Uncompressed /cygdrive/c/Documents and
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/D/
DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.4302.tar.gz successfully
Using Tar:/usr/bin/tar xvf /cygdrive/c/Documents and
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources
/authors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.4302.tar:
/usr/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive
/usr/bin/tar: and: Not found in archive
/usr/bin/tar:
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.430
2.tar: Not found in archive
/usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Couldn't untar /cygdrive/c/Documents and
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/
D/DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.4302.tar

cpan> o conf
CPAN::Config options from /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/CPAN/Config.pm:
commit Commit changes to disk
defaults Reload defaults from disk
init Interactive setting of all options

build_cache 10
build_dir /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/noah/.cpan/build
cache_metadata 1
cpan_home /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/noah/.cpan
dontload_hash
ftp
ftp_proxy
getcwd cwd
gpg
gzip /usr/bin/gzip
histfile /cygdrive/c/Documents and
Settings/noah/.cpan/histfile
histsize 100
http_proxy
inactivity_timeout 0
index_expire 1
inhibit_startup_message 0
keep_source_where /cygdrive/c/Documents and
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources
lynx
make /usr/bin/make
make_arg
make_install_arg
makepl_arg
ncftp
ncftpget
no_proxy
pager /usr/bin/less
prerequisites_policy ask
scan_cache atstart
shell
tar /usr/bin/tar
term_is_latin 1
unzip /usr/bin/unzip
urllist
http://www.cpan.org
wget /usr/bin/wget

cpan>

noah@noah-t43 /usr/local
$ perl -MCPAN -e shell

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

cpan> o conf urllist shift

cpan> o conf urllist
urllist
Type 'o conf' to view configuration edit options

cpan> o conf
CPAN::Config options from /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/CPAN/Config.pm:
commit Commit changes to disk
defaults Reload defaults from disk
init Interactive setting of all options

build_cache 10
build_dir /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/noah/.cpan/build
cache_metadata 1
cpan_home /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/noah/.cpan
dontload_hash
ftp
ftp_proxy
getcwd cwd
gpg
gzip /usr/bin/gzip
histfile /cygdrive/c/Documents and
Settings/noah/.cpan/histfile
histsize 100
http_proxy
inactivity_timeout 0
index_expire 1
inhibit_startup_message 0
keep_source_where /cygdrive/c/Documents and
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources
lynx
make /usr/bin/make
make_arg
make_install_arg
makepl_arg
ncftp
ncftpget
no_proxy
pager /usr/bin/less
prerequisites_policy ask
scan_cache atstart
shell
tar /usr/bin/tar
term_is_latin 1
unzip /usr/bin/unzip
urllist
wget /usr/bin/wget

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list of cpan mirrors/servers

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:47:58 PDT

Hi there,

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

Cheers,

Noah

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Re: cpan "couldn't untar"

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:30:26 PDT

>>>>> On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 13:22:20 -0700, "Peter Michaux" gmail.com> said:

> Help sorting this out is greatly appreciated.

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.

--
andreas

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problem upgrading Bundle::CPAN

Sat, 24 May 2008 18:20:37 PDT

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 line 30.
t/14gzopen......NOK 1
# Failed test (t/14gzopen.t at line 25)
# Tried to use 'Compress::Zlib'.
# Error: is only avaliable with the XS version at /root/.cpan/
build/Compress-Zlib-2.011/blib/lib/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9
# BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/14gzopen.t line 25.
# Compilation failed in require at (eval 31) line 2.
# BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 31) line 2.
t/14gzopen......ok 2/250Global symbol "$gzerrno" requires explicit
package name at t/14gzopen.t line 49.
Global symbol "$gzerrno" requires explicit package name at t/
14gzopen.t line 53.
Global symbol "$gzerrno" requires explicit package name at t/
14gzopen.t line 56.
Global symbol "$gzerrno" requires explicit package name at t/
14gzopen.t line 59.
Global symbol "$gzerrno" requires explicit package name at t/
14gzopen.t line 66.
Global symbol "$gzerrno" requires explicit package name at t/
14gzopen.t line 94.
Global symbol "$gzerrno" requires explicit package name at t/
14gzopen.t line 97.
Global symbol "$gzerrno" requires explicit package name at t/
14gzopen.t line 100.
Global symbol "$gzerrno" requires explicit package name at t/
14gzopen.t line 104.
Global symbol "$gzerrno" requires explicit package name at t/
14gzopen.t line 111.
Global symbol "$gzerrno" requires explicit package name at t/
14gzopen.t line 111.
Global symbol "$gzerrno" requires explicit package name at t/
14gzopen.t line 117.
Global symbol "$gzerrno" requires explicit package name at t/
14gzopen.t line 118.
Global symbol "$gzerrno" requires explicit package name at t/
14gzopen.t line 480.
Global symbol "$gzerrno" requires explicit package name at t/
14gzopen.t line 481.
Global symbol "$gzerrno" requires explicit package name at t/
14gzopen.t line 499.
Global symbol "$gzerrno" requires explicit package name at t/
14gzopen.t line 502.
Bareword "Compress::Zlib::zlib_version" not allowed while "strict
subs" in use at t/14gzopen.t line 38.
Bareword "ZLIB_VERSION" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at t/
14gzopen.t line 38.
Bareword "Z_FINISH" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at t/
14gzopen.t line 98.
Bareword "Z_STREAM_END" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at t/
14gzopen.t line 110.
Bareword "Z_STREAM_END" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at t/
14gzopen.t line 111.
Bareword "Z_STREAM_ERROR" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at t/
14gzopen.t line 446.
Bareword "Z_STREAM_ERROR" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at t/
14gzopen.t line 461.
Execution of t/14gzopen.t aborted due to compilation errors.
# Looks like you planned 250 tests but only ran 2.
# Looks like your test died just after 2.
t/14gzopen......dubious
Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED tests 1, 3-250
Failed 249/250 tests, 0.40%% okay
t/99pod.........ok
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/000prereq.t 4 1024 6 4 66.67%% 2-4 6
t/01version.t 255 65280 2 3 150.00%% 1-2
t/03zlib-v1.t 255 65280 401 797 198.75%% 1 4-401
t/05examples.t 255 65280 ?? ?? %% ??
t/06gzsetp.t 255 65280 ?? ?? %% ??
t/08encoding.t 255 65280 29 57 196.55%% 1-29
t/14gzopen.t 255 65280 250 497 198.80%% 1 3-250
Failed 7/8 test scripts, 12.50%% okay. 683/689 subtests failed, 0.87%%
okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
/usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
Running make install
make test had returned bad status, won't install without force

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Newbie simple local mirror setup question

Tue, 13 May 2008 07:04:12 PDT

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.

My question is about how to best programmatically issue the following
CPANPLUS command sequence:

'x --update_source'
'o'
'i *'

Thanks.

- David

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Getting started ....

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:37:29 PDT

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

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