(RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell;" fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header"

2005-02-28 Thread Stephan Petersen
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 That seems to h

Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell; " fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header"

2005-02-28 Thread John Morrison
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 >>

Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell; " fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header"

2005-02-28 Thread Stephan Petersen
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]

Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell; " fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header"

2005-02-28 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
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 mou

Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell; " fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header"

2005-03-01 Thread John Morrison (Cygwin)
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

Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell; " fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header"

2005-03-01 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
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

Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell; " fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header"

2005-03-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
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

Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell; " fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header"

2005-03-01 Thread John Morrison
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 i