Re: [Module::Build] Odd output from CPAN trying to install latest Module::Build

[email protected] ((Andreas J. Koenig)) Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:12:36 +0100

Newsgroups	perl.cpan.discuss
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>>>>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:33:03 -0800, Tyler MacDonald <[email protected]> said:

  > 	OK, I've figured out what went wrong: 0.27_06 isn't on
  > www.cpan.org/pub/CPAN yet. However, *how* it went wrong is truly bizzare:
  > LWP returned a "404 not found" error, yet somehow I still ended up with a
  > .tar.gz and .tar file, and CPAN thinking it had actually downloaded
  > something. This looks like a bug in CPAN.pm, both in the 1.7 version that's
  > distributed with 5.8.7, and the latest release, 1.83.

Thanks, fixed in my copy. Both curl and lynx could make CPAN.pm
believe that a download actually succeeded although it didn't. For
curl the fix was easy by adding a few commandline switches. For lynx I
had to apply some heuristics.

Thanks again,
-- 
andreas