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From: | Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com> |
Subject: | Re: Unable to use cpan |
Date: | Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:18:02 -0700 |
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Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Reini Urban wrote: >> 2009/8/20 Andrew DeFaria: >>> Huh? It's not a permissions problem, it's a file naming problem. >>> Removing the /home/p6258c/.cpan/modules to make this simpler, the >>> error message is saying it is unable to rename >>> 03modlist.data.*gz*.tmp3996 because there is no such file or >>> directory. The error message is right - there is no file by that >>> name. There is, however, a file by the name of >>> 03modlist.data.tmp3669.*gz*. Note the placement of the letters "gz" >>> - highlighted by surrounding it with "*"'s (that are not in the >>> filename nor the error message). Of course mv will not work when you >>> use the wrong file name. The question is why is cpan(1) using the >>> wrong file name? Or is it ncftpget which gets it wrong? I don't >>> know. All I know is that it just doesn't work... >> Looks like your download client (ncftp) misnames the output name. I >> use wget successfully with the proxy settings at work. LWP should >> also be able to use a proxy. > I would think that ncftp would only name a file that which it was told > to name a file. Do you know of any way to turn on tracing of some sort > to see more of what is going on under the hood? > > Thanks for the ideas of trying to set proxy info for other methods > such as wget and LWP. I thought I did try setting that before. Any > pointers on how you do set that proxy info? Figured out my problem with getting stuff from the net - seems the cpan parameters were overriding my http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment settings. Now I have curl working correctly and I am downloading things. Meantime, I get the following problem: $ cpan Algorithm::Diff ... Running make install Prepending /home/p6258c/.cpan/build/Algorithm-Diff-1.1902-7kZkOA/blib/arch /home/p6258c/.cpan/build/Algorithm-Diff-1.1902-7kZkOA/blib/lib /home/p6258c/.cpan/build/CPAN-1.9402-SZbdyV/blib/arch /home/p6258c/.cpan/build/CPAN-1.9402-SZbdyV/blib/lib to PERL5LIB for 'install' Use of uninitialized value $pipe in <HANDLE> at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/CPAN.pm line 8981. readline() on unopened filehandle at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/CPAN.pm line 8981. Catching error: 'Can\'t call method "close" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/CPAN.pm line 8987. ' at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/CPAN.pm line 281 CPAN::shell() called at /bin/cpan line 198 cpan[8]> Any ideas? -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> Windows: Just another pane in the glass. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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