--- Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Nov 11, 2003, at 14:09, DH wrote:
> > all my modules don't show up on http://search.cpan.org
> > and the latest versions don't show up on 
> > http://search.cpan.org/~PODMASTER
> > and some of them weren't listed on http://search.cpan.org/recent
> >
> > I went through a few rounds of reindexing/deleting
> > trying to get
> > HTML-Scrubber-0.06
> > and
> > PPM-Repositories-0.07
> > to show up.
> 
> Well you have obviously found out how useful it is to publish these 
> problems in blogs instead of reporting them. If you read your blog you 
> would have seen a response which stated

I reported it as soon as I noticed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

> 
>    Well the reason is simple, there was a problem unpacking the tar file
> 
>    tar zxv --no-same-owner -f PPM-Repositories-0.07.tar.gz
>    PPM-Repositories-0.07/
>    tar: Archive value 4294967295 is out of gid_t range 
> -2147483648..2147483647
> 
>    This is on solaris, on linix it is fine as gid_t is unsigned on linux 
> but signed on solaris

I see, so what's gonna happen now (do I need to re-upload or what)?


>    What are you using to create the tar file and on what platform?
> 

cygwin's tar on win32 via `nmake dist'


> Nobody is forcing anyone to use any particular engine. If you prefer 
> kobesearch then fine use it.

I didn't say anyone was

> But I will say once more. If you report problems as you find them, to 
> the people who need to know

So [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not the right place to report this?




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