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[G T Smith <grahamsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Ruben Safir wrote:
> Is anyone having toruble using CPAN in opensuse 11.2 ... it seems to fail
>
>
> CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18)
> CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v5.829)
> CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9711)
>
> I would like to connect to one of the following sites to get
> 'authors/01mailrc.txt.gz':
>
>  http://www.perl.org/CPAN/
>  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/
>
> Is it OK to try to connect to the Internet? [yes] yes
> Fetching with LWP:
>   http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> ............................................................................DONE
> Fetching with LWP:
>   http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
> Use of uninitialized value $file_length in numeric lt (<) at /usr/lib/
> perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/LWP/UserAgent.pm line 845.
> Use of uninitialized value $file_length in concatenation (.) or string
> at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/LWP/UserAgent.pm line 847.
> Catching error: 'Transfer truncated: only  out of 845183 bytes received
> ' at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/CPAN.pm line 281
>         CPAN::shell() called at /usr/bin/cpan line 198
> Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> ............................................................................DONE
> Fetching with LWP:
>   http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
> Use of uninitialized value $file_length in numeric lt (<) at /usr/lib/
> perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/LWP/UserAgent.pm line 845.
> Use of uninitialized value $file_length in concatenation (.) or string
> at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/LWP/UserAgent.pm line 847.
> Lockfile removed.
> Transfer truncated: only  out of 845183 bytes received

I am not currently using 11.2 as I would prefer to avoid being first to
discover such interesting surprises, and I tend to maintain most of my
Perl stuff from CPAN rather than the openSuSE repositories in any case.
(Many SuSE Perl rpms do not contain current Perl module versions).

However, Perl basics are fairly standard across platforms, and one would
not expect major problems with a base component such as CPAN based
maintenance. So I would be highly surprised if this was a 11.2 issue.

However, in this case I am bit puzzled by the lack of context. the CPAN
Perl maintenance bits are somewhat varied and there a number of methods
getting module author info and it is rather difficult to tell whether
this a usage problem or a script problem with the info given. What
command did you issue?


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