...and what that means is that CPAN was only able to find MARC-Errorchecks as a match for /MARC::Lint/, not because it supplies that module, but because it itself contains MARC::Lint::CodeData. Installing/upgrading MARC-Errorchecks will not get you the freshest MARC::Lint.
I'm no expert in CPAN packaging either, unfortunately. This is not typical behavior, though. Cory Snavely University of Michigan Library IT Core Services bargioni wrote: > > On 23/feb/06, at 20:36, Bryan Baldus wrote: > >> I've received word that there may be a problem with installing MARC::Lint >> and MARC::Errorchecks from CPAN. The person reporting the error says that >> typing "install MARC::Lint" in CPAN does not update the module as one >> would >> expect. I don't have access to CPAN myself. Are others experiencing this >> problem? Is there something wrong with the way I packaged the module >> distributions that would cause this? >> Thank you, >> Bryan Baldus >> > > Dear Bryan, this is what I obtained with my Mac OS X 10.3.9 installation. > HTH. Stefano > > root# perl -e 'use MARC::Lint' > root# perl -MCPAN -eshell > cpan> install MARC::Lint > (...) > Fetching with Net::FTP: > ftp://ftp.edisontel.it/pub/CPAN_Mirror/modules/03modlist.data.gz > Going to read /var/root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz > Going to write /var/root/.cpan/Metadata > Warning: Cannot install MARC::Lint, don't know what it is. > Try the command > > i /MARC::Lint/ > > to find objects with matching identifiers. > cpan> i /MARC::Lint/ > CPAN: Storable loaded ok > Going to read /var/root/.cpan/Metadata > Database was generated on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:41:10 GMT > Module id = MARC::Lint::CodeData > CPAN_USERID EIJABB (Bryan Baldus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > CPAN_VERSION 1.04 > CPAN_FILE E/EI/EIJABB/MARC-Errorchecks-1.10.tar.gz > INST_FILE (not installed) > cpan> q > Lockfile removed. > > >
