X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Unable to use cpan Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:16:36 -0700 Lines: 51 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090608) X-Stationery: 0.4.9 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com More and more of my clients nowadays restrict where you can go to "get=20 things from the net". I have managed to convince management to allow=20 blanket permission to install CPAN modules for our code development. I=20 wish to install them en mass=C3=A8 using a "bundle" with the cpan(1) script= .=20 However it doesn't seem to work right. I'm not sure if this is a Cygwin=20 issue or a CPAN issue. If the later then pointers would be appreciated. In it's simplest form I cannot install even a single CPAN module due to=20 this error. Note that cpan(1) tries various methods to retrieve the=20 external CPAN module, including LWP, Net::Ftp, etc. I have ncftp and=20 have managed to configure it to properly use the proxy in order to=20 obtain stuff from the net. For example, I can ncftp to my server at home=20 from my client's machines by utilizing the proxy settings. While cpan(1) fails to get the material with LWP, Net::Ftp, etc. It does=20 seem to succeed when using ncftp but then fails with an odd error about=20 trying to rename the file it downloaded and failing to: $ cpan Algorithm::Diff CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok (v0.80) CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18) ... Trying with "/bin/ncftpget" to get ftp://mirrors1.kernel.org/pub/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz 03modlist.data.gz: 161.78 kB 796.93=20 kB/s=20 Error while trying to rename=20 '/home/p6258c/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz.tmp3996' to=20 '/home/p6258c/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz': No such file or=20 directory $ Yet I see: $ ls /home/p6258c/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.tmp3996* /home/p6258c/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.tmp3996 /home/p6258c/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.tmp3996.gz IOW I see the "tmp3996" and then the ".gz" yet the cpan command tried to=20 rename a file with ".gz" and then ".tmp3996". Help!?! --=20 Andrew DeFaria The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with=20 the average voter. -- 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