Dan, AFAIK PPM only keeps track of the modules you've actually installed using PPM and PPM2 uses a different data source than PPM3. If you are an ASPN subscriber you can also save you PPM profile at ActiveState so that it can be restored onto any system. I don't use it myself but what I've read about it sounds pretty kewl.
Currently I simply maintain a local flat file of all of the modules I use and install them via a small script that reads the list and makes a system call to PPM to install them all in one shot. Cheers, Trevor. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dans Lists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Trevor Joerges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Dans Lists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 12:02 PM Subject: RE: PPM has lost its mind-help It was after installing a module. PPM3 did not show the installed modules like "lanman" that I know I am using... Thanks for the snippet of code I will give it a try and see if I can get back on track.... :) -- Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: Trevor Joerges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 4:40 AM > To: Dans Lists; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: PPM has lost its mind-help > > > I've run into this recently myself and it's got to do with a > bug/feature in PPM 2.x which does not handle certain HTML > characters contained in a few modules author information. I > believe the HTML characters in the modules is non-standard > but this has been fixed in PPM3 in ActivePerl build 631. If > you are using build 631 you can use PPM3 which is much better > anyway. Otherwise just locate your ppm.xml file on your local > hard drive and replace it with something like the following: > > <PPMCONFIG> > <PPMVER>2,1,0,0</PPMVER> > <PLATFORM CPU="x86" OSVALUE="MSWin32" OSVERSION="0,0,0,0" /> > <OPTIONS BUILDDIR="C:\Temp" CLEAN="1" CONFIRM="1" > FORCEINSTALL="1" IGNORECASE="1" MORE="0" ROOT="D:\Perl" > TRACE="0" TRACEFILE="PPM.LOG" VERBOSE="1" /> > > <REPOSITORY LOCATION="http://www.roth.net/perl/packages"; > NAME="RothConsulting" PASSWORD="" SUMMARYFILE="" USERNAME="" > /><REPOSITORY LOCATION="http://dada.perl.it/PPM"; NAME="DaDa" > PASSWORD="" SUMMARYFILE="" USERNAME="" /><REPOSITORY > LOCATION="http://www.ActiveState.com/cgibin/PPM/ppmserver.pl?u > rn:/PPMServer" > NAME="ActiveState Package Repository" PASSWORD="" > SUMMARYFILE="fetch_summary" USERNAME="" /><REPOSITORY > LOCATION="http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz/perl"; NAME="Jenda" > PASSWORD="" SUMMARYFILE="" USERNAME="" > /><PPMPRECIOUS>Compress-Zlib;Archive-Tar;Digest-MD5;File-Count > erFile;Font-AF > M;HTML-Parser;HTML-Tree;MIME-Base64;URI;XML-Element;libwww-per > l;XML-Parser;S > OAP-Lite;PPM;libnet;libwin32</PPMPRECIOUS> > </PPMCONFIG> > > Or you can just edit the existing file and remove the illegal > HTML tag characters in the author field of the installed > culprit modules. > > Hope this helps. > > Kind regards, > Trevor J. Joerges > -------------------------------------------- > $_=q;rrUSFWPSZK.ZKPFSHFT,rkvtuZbopuifsZQZibdl > rrqpxfsfeZcyZQ,,riuuq://xxx.%.dpn,ru~@%.dpn ,rrr8-) > ;;s;\~;kpfshft;g;s;\%;tfoenjnf;g;y;B-x;A-w;; > s;P;perl;g;s;,;\n;g;s;Y; ;g;s;q;\t;g;print; > -------------------------------------------- > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dans Lists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 2:50 AM > Subject: PPM has lost its mind-help > > > I am in the middle of a project and PPM has lost its mind. > When I get into the prompt and type set I get the following: > > PPM interactive shell (2.1.5) - type 'help' for available commands. > PPM> set > Commands will not be confirmed. > Temporary files will not be deleted. > Download status will not be updated. > Case-sensitive searches will be performed. > Package installations will not continue if a dependency > cannot be installed. Tracing info will not be written. > Screens will not pause. Query/search results will not be > verbose. Current PPD repository paths: > > I tried to put things back to normal but when I type set save > exit and return it does not save the info. > > > I need to get this fixed without reinstalling perl. Can > anyone help????? > -- > Daniel Peterson > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > > > > _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
