On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 23:37, Randy W. Sims wrote:
On 3/11/2004 5:41 PM, fcp wrote:
Not really a perl programmer but have used the perl utility "mirror" for a good number of years now. The problem I have is that mirror worked on RH8 but does not on RH9. Both releases have perl v5.8.0. On RH9 mirror stops with:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mirror]# ./mirror -d packages/all unknown input in "./mirror.defaults" line 10 of: package=defaults unknown keyword in "./mirror.defaults" line 10 of: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mirror]#
Anybody come across this problem?
WAG: Does it work if you set LANG=C in the environment before running mirror?
Yes, it does.
Why?
IIRC, Redhat changed this between 8.0 and 9.0 and that change caused some kind of breakage in perl 5.8.0 (actually it caused lots of breakage everywhere; RedHat has a history of that which is why I stay away from thier dist). I think this is resolved in more recent perls. I don't remember the details; I just remember the discussion on perl5-porters. You might try the latest stable at 5.8.3.
Regards, Randy.
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