On 22/02/2012 16:35, Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Alejandro Imass <a...@p2ee.org> wrote: >> Your post makes me very happy to know I wasn't crazy: >> >> http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=918414 >> >> This is a pain in the ass and I don't know if it's a FBSD CPAN problem >> or a CPAN dependency problem but it does happen, and it's really >> annoying. I don't have a fix but a workaround. It will always hang on >> the same test, so just ^C and "look" into the module. remove the test >> and go back to the cpan shell. It won't bother you again for the whole >> CPAN session. >> >> -- >> Alejandro > > This person says the problem is in BSDPAN::ExtUtils::Packlist - maybe > someone could help the maintainer solve this problem! It is _really_, > _really_ annoying. I sadly don't have the time right now and only deal > with problem from time to time, but if someone has the time it would > be really great to fix!!! > > http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=922671 >
It's already been fixed in 3 of the 4 perl ports: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=162151 The remaining port (lang/perl5.8) hasn't been modified in 7 months, and I believe it may well be deprecated and removed fairly soon. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW
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