Re: [Perldl] Troubles with CPAN indexing of PDL::NetCDF and PDL::Graphics::PLplot

[email protected] (Doug Hunt) Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:13:54 -0700 (MST)
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Hi David:  OK, thanks--I'll wait until tomorrow to check 'cpan'.

--Doug

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UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611

On Mon, 28 Nov 2011, David Mertens wrote:

> Doug, all -
> 
> To be clear, when I fire up CPAN and type the command you supply, I get this output:
> 
> cpan[1]> i /PDL::NetCDF/
> CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.27)
> Reading '/home/visitors/dcmertens/.cpan/Metadata'
>   Database was generated on Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:29:47 GMT
> CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v6.02)
> CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.972101)
> Fetching with LWP:
> http://cpan.msi.umn.edu/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> Reading '/home/visitors/dcmertens/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz'
> CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.033)
> ............................................................................DONE
> Fetching with LWP:
> http://cpan.msi.umn.edu/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
> Reading '/home/visitors/dcmertens/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz'
>   Database was generated on Mon, 28 Nov 2011 06:29:30 GMT
> ............................................................................DONE
> Fetching with LWP:
> http://cpan.msi.umn.edu/modules/03modlist.data.gz
> Reading '/home/visitors/dcmertens/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz'
> ............................................................................DONE
> Writing /home/visitors/dcmertens/.cpan/Metadata
> Module id = PDL::NetCDF
>     DESCRIPTION  Reads/Writes NetCDF files from/to PDL objs
>     CPAN_USERID  DHUNT (Douglas Hunt <[email protected]>)
>     CPAN_VERSION undef
>     CPAN_FILE    Contact Author Douglas Hunt <[email protected]>
>     DSLIP_STATUS RdcOp (released,developer,C,object-oriented,Standard-Perl)
>     INST_FILE    (not installed)
> 
> Notice the emphasized line. If I understand this correctly, this means that the packages file was last updated this mornig at
> 06:29:30, GMT. I believe that if you check back after the package list has been updated to a time-stamp after you submitted the
> new module, it should have the correct information.
> 
> David
> 
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:02 PM, David Mertens <[email protected]> wrote:
>       I could be wrong here, but I was under the impression that it can take many hours for the various CPAN mirrors to
>       update. How much time did you give them to update?
>
>       David
>
>       On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Doug Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:
>             Hi again, Andreas!
>
>             I submitted this an hour or so ago.  I got this reassuring email from PAUSE:
>
>             ------------------%<-----------------------------------------------------------
>             The following report has been written by the PAUSE namespace indexer.
>              Please contact [email protected] if there are any open questions.
>
>              User: DHUNT (Douglas Hunt)
>              Distribution file: PDL-NetCDF-4.15.tar.gz
>              Number of files: 13
>              *.pm files: 0
>              README: PDL-NetCDF-4.15/README
>              META.yml: PDL-NetCDF-4.15/META.yml
>              YAML-Parser: YAML::XS 0.32
>              META-driven index: yes
>              Timestamp of file: Mon Nov 28 21:58:52 2011 UTC
>              Time of this run: Mon Nov 28 22:00:27 2011 UTC
>
>             Status of this distro: OK
>             =========================
>
>             The following packages (grouped by status) have been found in the distro:
>
>             Status: Successfully indexed
>                      ============================
>
>                 module: PDL::NetCDF
>                      version: 4.15
>                      in file: netcdf.pd
>                      status: indexed
>
>             __END__
>             ------------------%<-----------------------------------------------------------
>
>             but I still don't see an index from cpan:
>
>             ------------------%<-----------------------------------------------------------
>             nolock_cpan[2]> i /PDL::NetCDF/
>             Module id = PDL::NetCDF
>                DESCRIPTION  Reads/Writes NetCDF files from/to PDL objs
>                CPAN_USERID  DHUNT (Douglas Hunt <[email protected]>)
>                CPAN_VERSION undef
>                CPAN_FILE    Contact Author Douglas Hunt <[email protected]>
>                DSLIP_STATUS RdcOp (released,developer,C,object-oriented,Standard-Perl)
>                INST_FILE    (not installed)
> 
> (as opposed to, for example):
> nolock_cpan[3]> i /Term::ReadLine::Perl/
> Module id = Term::ReadLine::Perl
>    DESCRIPTION  GNU Readline history and completion in Perl
>    CPAN_USERID  ILYAZ (Ilya Zakharevich <[email protected]>)
>    CPAN_VERSION 1.0303
>    CPAN_FILE    I/IL/ILYAZ/modules/Term-ReadLine-Perl-1.0303.tar.gz
>    DSLIP_STATUS RdpO? (released,developer,perl,object-oriented,)
>    INST_FILE    (not installed)
> ------------------%<-----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> So, I think I'm stuck where I've always been.
> 
> Any ideas or suggestions welcome!
> 
> Regards,
> 
>  Doug
> 
> 
> [email protected]
> Software Engineer
> UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611
> 
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2011, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
>
>                                     On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:15:16 -0700 (MST),
>                                     Doug Hunt <[email protected]> said:
> 
>
>        > [...]
>        > provides:
>        >     PDL::NetCDF:
>        >         file:     netcdf.pd
>        >         version:  4.15
>        > [...]
>        > ------------------%<---------------------------------------------------
>
>        > Does this look right to you?  If so, I'll submit this to CPAN and see
>        > what happens.
>
>       Yes, this looks familiar to me, please try it out and complain
>       immediately to me if it doesn't work.
>
>        > Thanks!
>
>       You're welcome!
>
>       --
>       andreas
> 
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