Michiel Beijen <michiel.bei...@gmail.com> writes: > If I try this I get an error; > > cpan[1]> reports VPIT/Variable-Magic-0.51.tar.gz > Reading '/home/michiel/.cpan/Metadata' > Database was generated on Thu, 25 Oct 2012 05:07:04 GMT > Distribution: V/VP/VPIT/Variable-Magic-0.51.tar.gz > Fetching 'http://www.cpantesters.org/show/Variable-Magic.yaml'...DONE > > Catching error: "CPAN::Exception::yaml_process_error=HASH(0xc379e68)" > at /home/michiel/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.17.5/lib/5.17.5/CPAN.pm > line 392. > CPAN::shell() called at > /home/michiel/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.17.5/lib/5.17.5/App/Cpan.pm > line 295 > App::Cpan::_process_options('App::Cpan') called at > /home/michiel/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.17.5/lib/5.17.5/App/Cpan.pm > line 364 > App::Cpan::run('App::Cpan') called at > /home/michiel/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.17.5/bin/cpan line 11
I cannot reproduce your problem, I get a clear answer: cpan[1]> reports VPIT/Variable-Magic-0.51.tar.gz CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.39) Reading '/home/sand/.cpan/Metadata' Database was generated on Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:19:04 GMT Distribution: V/VP/VPIT/Variable-Magic-0.51.tar.gz CPAN: CPAN::DistnameInfo loaded ok (v0.12) CPAN: LWP loaded ok (v6.04) CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.22) Fetching 'http://www.cpantesters.org/show/Variable-Magic.yaml'...DONE CPAN: YAML::Syck loaded ok (v1.21) 0.51: +PASS 5.14.0 on NetBSD 5.1.2 (amd64-netbsd-thread-multi) +PASS 5.12.3 on NetBSD 5.1.2 (amd64-netbsd-thread-multi) +PASS 5.12.0 on FreeBSD 9.0-release (i386-freebsd) +PASS 5.12.3 on NetBSD 5.1.2 (amd64-netbsd) +PASS 5.10.1 on FreeBSD 9.0-release (i386-freebsd-thread-multi) +PASS 5.12.2 on NetBSD 5.1.2 (amd64-netbsd) +PASS 5.12.3 on Mac OS X 8.11.0 (darwin-2level) +PASS 5.10.0 on SunOS/Solaris 2.11 (i86pc-solaris-thread-multi) +PASS 5.16.1 on Mac OS X 12.1.0 (darwin-thread-multi-2level) +PASS 5.12.0 on NetBSD 5.1.2 (amd64-netbsd-thread-multi) +PASS 5.10.0 on FreeBSD 9.0-release (i386-freebsd-64int) +PASS 5.10.1 on NetBSD 5.1.2 (amd64-netbsd-thread-multi) [...] > The file I get if I go tho the mentioned URL > http://www.cpantesters.org/show/Variable-Magic.yaml manually, is 200k > lines long, and it also contains results for earlier versions of > Variable-Magic. Is that to be expected? Yes. -- andreas