>>>>> On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 18:21:34 -0700, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> a comment (a GIT commit id in this case). You need GNU tar 1.14 to >> handle the extended header correctly. Earlier versions will display >> a warning and extract the comment as a file. ew> Ah, interesting. >>> That first file is the problem. Because the distribution doesn't >>> untar cleanly into a subdirectory, CPAN.pm creates a subdir for you >>> ... >> >> Given that GIT is becoming more popular it would be good to teach >> CPAN.pm to deal with these kind of tarballs even when they are >> being processed by older tar versions. ew> And then CPAN.pm will need to be upgraded ;-) >>> This might also explain why the distribution doesn't appear on >>> search.cpan.org. ew> The tar on that machine (or PAUSE?) needs an upgrade? For the record: the tar on PAUSE is 1.16 since December 2006. (I'll have a look what CPAN.pm can do about this ASAP.) -- andreas
