Re: Trouble downloading Moose

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 02:54:10PM -0800, Celso Frazao wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to start using Moose, but am having trouble downloading it from CPAN.
> Once Dist::CheckConflicts gets into the picture, I appear to get into an
> infinite loop.
> Can you provide any help?
> 
> *cpan[1]>* i Moose
> Reading '/root/.cpan/Metadata'
>   Database was generated on Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:30:03 GMT
> Module id = Moose
>     CPAN_USERID  DOY (Jesse Luehrs <[email protected]>)
>     CPAN_VERSION 2.0401
>     CPAN_FILE    D/DO/DOY/Moose-2.0401.tar.gz
>     UPLOAD_DATE  2011-11-17
>     INST_FILE    (not installed)
> 
> *cpan[2]>* get Moose
> Running get for module 'Moose'
> Checksum for /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/D/DO/DOY/Moose-2.0401.tar.gz ok
> Scanning cache /root/.cpan/build for sizes
> ........................................................................----DONE
> DEL(1/3): /root/.cpan/build/Perl-Critic-1.116-_fEBs0
> DEL(2/3): /root/.cpan/build/PPI-1.215-Pz13C_
> DEL(3/3): /root/.cpan/build/File-Remove-1.50-VrPqlb
> /bin/tar: Read 9728 bytes from -
> ---- Unsatisfied dependencies detected during ----
> ----          DOY/Moose-2.0401.tar.gz         ----
>     Dist::CheckConflicts [build_requires]
> Shall I follow them and prepend them to the queue
> of modules we are processing right now? [yes]
> Running get for module 'Dist::CheckConflicts'
> Checksum for
> /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/D/DO/DOY/Dist-CheckConflicts-0.02.tar.gz ok
> /bin/tar: Read 1024 bytes from -
> ---- Unsatisfied dependencies detected during ----
> ----          DOY/Moose-2.0401.tar.gz         ----
>     Dist::CheckConflicts [build_requires]
> Shall I follow them and prepend them to the queue
> of modules we are processing right now? [yes]
> Running get for module 'Dist::CheckConflicts'
> ---- Unsatisfied dependencies detected during ----
> ----          DOY/Moose-2.0401.tar.gz         ----
>     Dist::CheckConflicts [build_requires]
> Shall I follow them and prepend them to the queue
> of modules we are processing right now? [yes]
> 
> *.... <infinite loop on Unsatisfied dependencies> ...
> 
> *Thanks for any guidance.

I've never seen this before, but my first guess is a bug with the CPAN
client. Can you try deleting the contents of ~/.cpan/build/ and try it
again? Alternately, try using cpanm instead?

-doy