------------------------------------------------ On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:38:25 -0500, Bob Showalter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> R. Joseph Newton wrote: > > Bob Showalter wrote: > > This looks suspicious. I'd say your CPAN config is fubar. > > > > Hi Bob, > > > > Maybe I'm spoiled here, as I've always worked in integrated > > development environments, and only ventured into Perl; when I > > saw a good, transparent, installer available from > > ActiveState. So in a case like this, what would be the > > advantages and disadvantages of nuking-and-paving the Perl > > installation to bring in an uncorrupted current version? > > None, but that's not what I said. I suspect that the configuration settings > for CPAN.pm are messed up, because "yes" was answered to a configuration > question that asked for a directory name. The "corruption" was introduced by > human error. Reconfiguring CPAN should fix that problem. > Agreed. But I am not sure CPAN.pm is where the user should look. For my setup I have ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm, which appears to be where the options are set, and if not there then it reads the defaults from CPAN.pm, so theoretically even if one blows away the global CPAN.pm then the option could still be set wrong. Does anyone know if there was a major change to how all of this was setup? To see the location CPAN is reading config info from you can do the previously mentioned at the shell (top line): cpan> o conf http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
