> > CPAN now uses ftp or ncftp to download the files and all packages get > > installed perfectly! > > Noticed the same problem. Seem that lynx is un-gz'ing the files inline > and not removing the .gz, so CPAN tries to do a checksum and un-gz them > and errors out.
FYI, that didn't work here, so I reduced the download options to wget only. Same problem! Doesn't seem to be a lynx-related thing. I did find this though -- These files are non-functional in context: /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz I replaced them with their .baks # cp 01mailrc.txt.gz.bak 01mailrc.txt.gz and that actually eliminated the first batch of errors for me, but didn't cure the tarball checksumming problem. To get around that I copied some relevant tar.gz's from a working mcpan setup on that "garbage" OS ;) into places like /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/ and similar appropriate distfile homes, which worked on some things, but still ultimately failed all tests on Net::Jabber What the heck is gwine on here I wonder...Thanks for any insights
