> "BM" == Bob McConnell writes:
BM> You do know that Sherlock Holmes was a fictional character, don't you?
BM> If any of my diagnostics were that superficial, I would never have
BM> lasted 30 years in this profession, nor any other. A much better
BM> guideline would be one Bob Pease (
From: Uri Guttman
>> "BM" == Bob McConnell writes:
>
> BM> From: Uri Guttman
>
> >> that implicates the tar.exe in your box as the guilty party. put
> >> the blame on camelbox for not handling some variation in tar
> >> headers that all other tar utils and modules can handle. report
>
> "BM" == Bob McConnell writes:
BM> From: Uri Guttman
>> that implicates the tar.exe in your box as the guilty party. put
>> the blame on camelbox for not handling some variation in tar
>> headers that all other tar utils and modules can handle. report
>> this as a big bug
BM> to
From: Uri Guttman
>> "BM" == Bob McConnell writes:
>
> BM> To remove the tar binary from Config.pm:
> BM> 1) Open C:\camelbox\lib\CPAN\Config.pm in an editor that
understands
> BM> Unix files (NOT notepad.exe; wordpad will work for this)
> BM> 2) Find the line that says 'tar' => q[C:\\ca
> "BM" == Bob McConnell writes:
BM> To remove the tar binary from Config.pm:
BM> 1) Open C:\camelbox\lib\CPAN\Config.pm in an editor that understands
BM> Unix files (NOT notepad.exe; wordpad will work for this)
BM> 2) Find the line that says 'tar' => q[C:\\camelbox\\bin\\tar.EXE] and
From: Steve Bertrand
> On 2010.06.21 18:22, Bob McConnell wrote:
>
>> After a little more digging, and trying your suggestion to try from
>> Linux, I have determined that the directory information in the new
tar
>> files is being put into the prefix field of the header. But
apparently
>> the olde
On 2010.06.21 18:22, Bob McConnell wrote:
> After a little more digging, and trying your suggestion to try from
> Linux, I have determined that the directory information in the new tar
> files is being put into the prefix field of the header. But apparently
> the older versions of tar (and WinZIP)
From: Bob McConnell
> From: Uri Guttman
>>> "BM" == Bob McConnell writes:
>>
>> BM> Looking at the two tar files with a binary viewer after
uncompressing
>> BM> them through gzip, I see several differences, but other than the
>> BM> obvious, I don't know which are significant. The obvio
> "BM" == Bob McConnell writes:
BM> I have posted the question on the Camelbox forum, but have not yet
BM> received any response. I don't know where to take CPAN problems,
BM> since I have never had any before. After reading what I can find
BM> of the tar format, I think the utility u
From: Uri Guttman
>> "BM" == Bob McConnell writes:
>
> BM> Looking at the two tar files with a binary viewer after
uncompressing
> BM> them through gzip, I see several differences, but other than the
> BM> obvious, I don't know which are significant. The obvious
difference is
> BM> that
> "BM" == Bob McConnell writes:
BM> Looking at the two tar files with a binary viewer after uncompressing
BM> them through gzip, I see several differences, but other than the
BM> obvious, I don't know which are significant. The obvious difference is
BM> that the tar file headers for 3
From: Uri Guttman
>> "BM" == Bob McConnell writes:
> BM> Yes, that was all one line. Lookout doesn't give me any options
to
> BM> prevent it from wrapping. Microsoft _always_ believe they know
what's
> BM> best for you.
>
> so don't use outhouse for mail. simple!
Not my choice. It is de
> "BM" == Bob McConnell writes:
BM> From: Uri Guttman
>>> "BM" == Bob McConnell writes:
BM> From: Uri Guttman
>>
>> >> tar zxvf Test-Harness-3.17.tar.gz
>>
BM> C:\camelbox\.cpan\build\tmp-Test>tar xzvf
BM> D:\Downloads\Test-Harness-3.21.tar.gz
BM> tar: Cannot use comp
From: Uri Guttman
>> "BM" == Bob McConnell writes:
> BM> From: Uri Guttman
>
> >> tar zxvf Test-Harness-3.17.tar.gz
>
> BM> C:\camelbox\.cpan\build\tmp-Test>tar xzvf
> BM> D:\Downloads\Test-Harness-3.21.tar.gz
> BM> tar: Cannot use compressed or remote archives
> BM> tar: Error is not
> "BM" == Bob McConnell writes:
BM> From: Uri Guttman
>> tar zxvf Test-Harness-3.17.tar.gz
BM> C:\camelbox\.cpan\build\tmp-Test>tar xzvf
BM> D:\Downloads\Test-Harness-3.21.tar.gz
BM> tar: Cannot use compressed or remote archives
BM> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
wha
From: Uri Guttman
>> "BM" == Bob McConnell writes:
>
> BM> From: Uri Guttman
> >> i will assume the tarball from cpan is in good shape. so the
issues
> >> seems to be you have a broken unzipping of a tar.gz file. can you
try
> >> unzipping another cpan module or any tgz file? this would
> "BM" == Bob McConnell writes:
BM> From: Uri Guttman
>> i will assume the tarball from cpan is in good shape. so the issues
>> seems to be you have a broken unzipping of a tar.gz file. can you try
>> unzipping another cpan module or any tgz file? this would verify my
>> conjecture
From: Uri Guttman
>> "BM" == Bob McConnell writes:
>
> BM> Just that, there are no paths shown in the directory tree. When
> BM> unpacked, I see this:
>
> BM> --
> BM> C:\camelbox\.cpan\build\tmp-4908>ls -al
> BM> total 2320
> BM> drwxrwxrwx 1 u
> "BM" == Bob McConnell writes:
BM> Just that, there are no paths shown in the directory tree. When
BM> unpacked, I see this:
BM> --
BM> C:\camelbox\.cpan\build\tmp-4908>ls -al
BM> total 2320
BM> drwxrwxrwx 1 user group 0 Jun 18 14:
ell
-Original Message-
From: Jim Gibson [mailto:jimsgib...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 2:48 PM
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: Re: No paths in Test-Harness-3.21.tar
On 6/18/10 Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:27 AM, "Bob McConnell"
scribbled:
> I am trying to update Test::Harnes
On 6/18/10 Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:27 AM, "Bob McConnell"
scribbled:
> I am trying to update Test::Harness from CPAN, but it's not working.
> When I go into the downloaded file at
> z> using WinZip 9.0 SR1 I see a lot of files but no paths. When CPAN
> tries to untar them, it creates the directori
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