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

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