On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, David Christensen wrote: > > yes, it's the same for every CPAN mirror I've tried. I've deleted > > CPAN's config.pm and my .cpan directory several times now, it's the > > same after every reconfiguration. > > Testing 02packages.details.txt.gz with gzip -t reports: > > gzip: 02packages.details.txt.gz: invalid compressed data--format > > violated
> I'd move the entire C:\cygwin tree aside, reinstall Cygwin base and the > relevant > Perl packages, and give CPAN another try. Before I did that, I would check that just FTPing the file from the mirror gave the same result or not. Or if CPAN is not using FTP, but libwww, then a perl script trying libwww. -- Greg Matheson, Taiwan -- 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/
