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There's something very wrong with the current CPAN.pm (1.9301). If I remove my ~/.cpan, and start from a clean install, then after answering "yes" to whether I'd like to configure everything automatically, I see: commit: wrote '/filer/home/nick/Sandpit/snap5.8.x-34690/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN/Config.pm' Terminal does not support AddHistory. cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9301) ReadLine support available (maybe install Bundle::CPAN or Bundle::CPANxxl?) cpan[1]> r CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.19) Your urllist is empty! The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/' Could not fetch authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Your urllist is empty! The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/' Could not fetch modules/02packages.details.txt.gz Your urllist is empty! The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/' Could not fetch modules/03modlist.data.gz Going to write /filer/home/nick/.cpan/Metadata All modules are up to date for /./ $ find ~/.cpan | xargs ls -al -rw-r--r-- 1 nick nick 132 Oct 31 18:01 /filer/home/nick/.cpan/Metadata /filer/home/nick/.cpan: total 16 drwxr-xr-x 3 nick nick 512 Oct 31 18:04 . drwxr-xr-x 72 nick nick 9728 Oct 31 18:03 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 nick nick 132 Oct 31 18:01 Metadata drwxr-xr-x 4 nick nick 512 Oct 31 18:01 sources /filer/home/nick/.cpan/sources: total 8 drwxr-xr-x 4 nick nick 512 Oct 31 18:01 . drwxr-xr-x 3 nick nick 512 Oct 31 18:04 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 nick nick 512 Oct 31 18:01 authors drwxr-xr-x 2 nick nick 512 Oct 31 18:01 modules /filer/home/nick/.cpan/sources/authors: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 nick nick 512 Oct 31 18:01 . drwxr-xr-x 4 nick nick 512 Oct 31 18:01 .. /filer/home/nick/.cpan/sources/modules: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 nick nick 512 Oct 31 18:01 . drwxr-xr-x 4 nick nick 512 Oct 31 18:01 .. Given that I'd like everything in place for 5.8.9-RC1 by, um, the weekend, if it's not trivial to fix reliably, then I'm going to have to revert back to 1.9205 Sorry for the rather late bug report, but I'd only just tried this on a clean machine, and hence only just realised the problem. I've replicated it on anther machine on anther OS (in a different country), so I don't think that it's anything "special" on my part. Nicholas ClarkThread Next