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: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 05:13:49 -0800 From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell; " fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header" Message-ID: <20050301131349.GA1216@efn.org> References: <0MKpV6-1D4XMu3JLa-0001jh@mxeu1.kundenserver.de> <421F1B6A.10707@gtt-technologies.de> <422219B7.9030800@familiehaase.de> <42230C6D.2050702@gtt-technologies.de> <58969.84.246.168.11.1109595947.squirrel@mail.morrison.mine.nu> <42239270.60205@familiehaase.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42239270.60205@familiehaase.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: bs"d X-IsSubscribed: yes On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:51:44PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > John Morrison wrote: > > >On Mon, February 28, 2005 12:19 pm, Stephan Petersen said: > > > >>Hi Gerrit, > >> > >>thanks for your and all the others' replies. > >> > >> > >>>- The CPAN repository and build directory *must* reside in a path > >>> mounted in binmode: > >>> > >>> mount -s -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan > >>> mount -u -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan > >> > > > >Could something along these lines be done in the postinstall for perl? > >(Only if the mount doesn't exist of cause...) > > The user may want to use a different directory as repository and build > directory. It should be done during the initial configuration, however > I'm not sure if is worth the time to implement it. Since there are two > or three rreports about this issue in a year shows that Joe User is > actually reading the README *or* is not using textmode mounts. If they want a different directory, it still doesn't hurt to force ~/.cpan to binmode (except in so far as it uses up the AIUI limited number of mounts). I'd advocate putting it in a postinstall script. > Anyway: PTA, > Gerrit /me looks around, certain that that *can't* have been addressed to me :) -- 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/