Steven Schubiger wrote: >On 5 Oct 2003, Phill Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >: CPAN.pm (invoked as cpan in the command shell) reports a permission >: problem trying to move a directory. The trouble is that CPAN.pm is using >: the rename() function, which in Win32 can change a file's name but not >: move it from one directory to another. A convenient solution is for >: CPAN.pm to use File::Copy::move() instead. CPAN.pm already has a "use" >: statement for File::Copy anyway. >: >: diff: >: 3948c3948 >: < rename($distdir,$packagedir) or >: --- >: > File::Copy::move($distdir,$packagedir) or >: >: CPAN.pm has many other instances of rename(). I haven't checked them. >: But making the one change above made CPAN.pm function well enough to >: install some modules. > > I believe it is all the directory renames that need changing. rename() works fine on Win32 for files, but can't move a directory to a different filesystem.
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