Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 09:13:06 +0800 From: Greg Matheson To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell;" fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header" Message-ID: <20050226011306.GA16211@ms.chinmin.edu.tw> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <421F0A9C.7050308@gtt-technologies.de> <200502260106.j1Q16gCG017505@ms.chinmin.edu.tw> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200502260106.j1Q16gCG017505@ms.chinmin.edu.tw> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-yoursite-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-yoursite-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: lang@ms.chinmin.edu.tw X-IsSubscribed: yes On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, David Christensen wrote: > > yes, it's the same for every CPAN mirror I've tried. I've deleted > > CPAN's config.pm and my .cpan directory several times now, it's the > > same after every reconfiguration. > > Testing 02packages.details.txt.gz with gzip -t reports: > > gzip: 02packages.details.txt.gz: invalid compressed data--format > > violated > I'd move the entire C:\cygwin tree aside, reinstall Cygwin base and the relevant > Perl packages, and give CPAN another try. Before I did that, I would check that just FTPing the file from the mirror gave the same result or not. Or if CPAN is not using FTP, but libwww, then a perl script trying libwww. -- Greg Matheson, Taiwan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/