Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with perl -MCPAN -e shell; fails with 02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header
On Mon, February 28, 2005 9:51 pm, Gerrit P. Haase said: The user may want to use a different directory as repository and build directory. It should be done during the initial configuration, however I'm not sure if is worth the time to implement it. Since there are two or three rreports about this issue in a year shows that Joe User is actually reading the README *or* is not using textmode mounts. Oh well :) worth the effort of dropping a line - thanks for replying :). J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with perl -MCPAN -e shell; fails with 02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:51:44PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: John Morrison wrote: On Mon, February 28, 2005 12:19 pm, Stephan Petersen said: Hi Gerrit, thanks for your and all the others' replies. - The CPAN repository and build directory *must* reside in a path mounted in binmode: mount -s -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan mount -u -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan Could something along these lines be done in the postinstall for perl? (Only if the mount doesn't exist of cause...) The user may want to use a different directory as repository and build directory. It should be done during the initial configuration, however I'm not sure if is worth the time to implement it. Since there are two or three rreports about this issue in a year shows that Joe User is actually reading the README *or* is not using textmode mounts. If they want a different directory, it still doesn't hurt to force ~/.cpan to binmode (except in so far as it uses up the AIUI limited number of mounts). I'd advocate putting it in a postinstall script. Anyway: PTA, Gerrit /me looks around, certain that that *can't* have been addressed to me :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with perl -MCPAN -e shell; fails with 02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: If they want a different directory, it still doesn't hurt to force ~/.cpan to binmode (except in so far as it uses up the AIUI limited number of mounts). I'd advocate putting it in a postinstall script. Yes, it does sometimes. There used a problem doing rm when a mount directory doesn't exist -- the root directory was erased. I don't have a spare system available to experiment with it now. I had this problem when I did rm -rf ~/something, where ~/something was mounted explicitly, but didn't exist. At a guess, if the mount point doesn't exist, the directory resolves to /, and that's what is being erased. Anyway: PTA, Gerrit Adverse Aftereffect of an Abundance of Acronyms (). :-) /me looks around, certain that that *can't* have been addressed to me :) I thought the official acronym for *that* was PITA? Perhaps it's time to add it to the OLOCA? Oh, well, perhaps when I see it actually *used* rather than hinted upon... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with perl -MCPAN -e shell; fails with 02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header
On Tue, March 1, 2005 2:47 pm, Igor Pechtchanski said: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: If they want a different directory, it still doesn't hurt to force ~/.cpan to binmode (except in so far as it uses up the AIUI limited number of mounts). I'd advocate putting it in a postinstall script. Yes, it does sometimes. There used a problem doing rm when a mount directory doesn't exist -- the root directory was erased. I don't have a spare system available to experiment with it now. I had this problem when I did rm -rf ~/something, where ~/something was mounted explicitly, but didn't exist. At a guess, if the mount point doesn't exist, the directory resolves to /, and that's what is being erased. I was thinking more like the perl installer add a .cpan to the skel folder and a 'post user create' file (to be determined how it gets run ;) which does the mount then removes itself. Thing is, it wouldn't help with users which already exist *before* they install perl. A different solution would be necessary for them. Possibly a profile.d script? Anyway, just thoughts :) J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with perl -MCPAN -e shell; fails with 02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header
On Mon, February 28, 2005 12:19 pm, Stephan Petersen said: Hi Gerrit, thanks for your and all the others' replies. - The CPAN repository and build directory *must* reside in a path mounted in binmode: mount -s -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan mount -u -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan Could something along these lines be done in the postinstall for perl? (Only if the mount doesn't exist of cause...) J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with perl -MCPAN -e shell; fails with 02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header
Could something along these lines be done in the postinstall for perl? (Only if the mount doesn't exist of cause...) Alternatively, maybe the CPAN module could issue a warning when it's running under cygwin using a textmode-mounted .cpan directory. Stephan -- Stephan Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit GTT's Technical Thermochemistry Web Page at http://www.gtt-technologies.de/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with perl -MCPAN -e shell; fails with 02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header
John Morrison wrote: On Mon, February 28, 2005 12:19 pm, Stephan Petersen said: Hi Gerrit, thanks for your and all the others' replies. - The CPAN repository and build directory *must* reside in a path mounted in binmode: mount -s -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan mount -u -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan Could something along these lines be done in the postinstall for perl? (Only if the mount doesn't exist of cause...) The user may want to use a different directory as repository and build directory. It should be done during the initial configuration, however I'm not sure if is worth the time to implement it. Since there are two or three rreports about this issue in a year shows that Joe User is actually reading the README *or* is not using textmode mounts. Anyway: PTA, Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
