CPAN.pm locking hangs in an NFS-mounted directory

I think NFS issues are confusing my CPAN.pm and causing it to stall while it waits for a lock. I'm still trying to track down this problem, but maybe someone has run into before. I'm creating a bootstrapping program to install a Perl environment starting with only a standard Perl 5.10.0 installati

Re: CPAN.pm locking hangs in an NFS-mounted directory

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:14 PM, brian d foy wrote: > Utlimately, I wouldn't mind a feature to disable locking, like > "no_really_i_know_what_im_doing_so_dont_lock_kthxbye". > > - > > % perl5.10.0 -MCPAN -e 'install( "Test::Output" )' Monkeypatch it? % perl5.10.0 -MCPAN -e '*CPAN::_flock

Re: CPAN.pm locking hangs in an NFS-mounted directory

In article <5d4beb40902171431h28bf2123x55ea936adbb69...@mail.gmail.com>, David Golden wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:14 PM, brian d foy wrote: > > Utlimately, I wouldn't mind a feature to disable locking, like > > "no_really_i_know_what_im_doing_so_dont_lock_kthxbye". > > > > - > > > >