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From:
Dave Mitchell
Date:
August 4, 2009 15:51
Subject:
Re: maint-5.10 CPAN very noisy
Message ID:
20090804225140.GH4204@iabyn.com
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 02:53:29PM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> On a clean install of main-5.10.x, CPAN is very noisy about non-fatal 
> failures to download files.  (Subsequent attempts to use a different 
> download method succeed, so this is annoying, but not fatal.)
> 
> The typical error message looks like this:
> 
> cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9402)
> Enter 'h' for help.
> 
> cpan[1]> m PPI
> CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.20)
> Warning: no success downloading '/export/home/doughera/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp21918'. Giving up on it. at /export/home/doughera/my/perl/lib/5.10.1/CPAN/FTP.pm line 837
>         CPAN::FTP::hostdlhard('CPAN::FTP', 'ARRAY(0x85f3fa0)', 'authors/01mailrc.txt.gz', '/export/home/doughera/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.t...', 'HASH(0x8b713d8)') called at /export/home/doughera/my/perl/lib/5.10.1/CPAN/FTP.pm line 515
[snip]
> Does this look familiar to anyone?  (This was present in the "not RC0" 
> snapshot, but somehow I missed it.)

Its also present in blead, but not 5.10.0. It's generated by Carp::cluck()
in CPAN::FTP, a module that isn't present in 5.10.0.

Andreas, can you enlighten us?

-- 
The crew of the Enterprise encounter an alien life form which is
surprisingly neither humanoid nor made from pure energy.
    -- Things That Never Happen in "Star Trek" #22

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