[perl #24119] CPAN.pm error in Win32: uses rename() not File::Copy::move

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CPAN.pm (invoked as cpan in the command shell) reports a permission 
problem trying to move a directory. The trouble is that CPAN.pm is using 
the rename() function, which in Win32 can change a file's name but not 
move it from one directory to another. A convenient solution is for 
CPAN.pm to use File::Copy::move() instead. CPAN.pm already has a "use" 
statement for File::Copy anyway.

diff:
3948c3948
<         rename($distdir,$packagedir) or
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 >         File::Copy::move($distdir,$packagedir) or

CPAN.pm has many other instances of rename(). I haven't checked them. 
But making the one change above made CPAN.pm function well enough to 
install some modules.

This is a bug report for perl from pbwolf@bellatlantic.net,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.1.


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Flags:
    category=library
    severity=low
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Site configuration information for perl v5.8.1:

Configured by pbwolf at Sun Sep 28 22:53:03 2003.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 1) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
    uname=''
    config_args='undef'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=define 
usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cl', ccflags ='-MD -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT 
-DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS 
-DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX',
    optimize='-MD -DNDEBUG -O1',
    cppflags='-DWIN32'
    ccversion='', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=10
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='__int64', 
lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -release        
 -libpath:"c:\perl58\5.8.1\lib\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread\CORE"        
 -machine:x86'
    libpth=\lib
    libs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib 
comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib 
netapi32.lib uuid.lib wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib version.lib 
odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.lib
    perllibs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib 
winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib 
oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib uuid.lib wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib 
version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.lib
    libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=yes, libperl=perl58.lib
    gnulibc_version='undef'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -release    
     -libpath:"c:\perl58\5.8.1\lib\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread\CORE"        
 -machine:x86'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl v5.8.1:
    C:/perl58/5.8.1/lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
    C:/perl58/5.8.1/lib
    C:/perl58/site/5.8.1/lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
    C:/perl58/site/5.8.1/lib
    .

---
Environment for perl v5.8.1:
    HOME (unset)
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=bla bla bla
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL (unset)

• [perl #24119] CPAN.pm error in Win32: uses rename() not File::Copy::move by Phill Wolf
• Re: [perl #24119] CPAN.pm error in Win32: uses rename() not File::Copy::move by Slaven Rezic