Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell; " fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header"

Could something along these lines be done in the postinstall for perl? (Only if the mount doesn't exist of cause...) Alternatively, maybe the CPAN module could issue a warning when it's running under cygwin using a textmode-mounted .cpan directory. Stephan -- Stephan Petersen [EMAIL

(RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell;" fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header"

ms to have done the trick, looks like everything is working now! Thanks again, Stephan -- Stephan Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit GTT's Technical Thermochemistry Web Page at http://www.gtt-technologies.de/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell;" fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header"

Hi Greg, thanks for your reply. Probably your file got damaged, I think. yes, but reproducably for all CPAN mirrors... Testing 02packages.details.txt.gz with gzip -t reports: gzip: 02packages.details.txt.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated Same with 03modlist.data.gz. Stephan -- Stephan

Re: Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell;" fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header"

"DOS", in case that's relevant. Stephan -- Stephan Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit GTT's Technical Thermochemistry Web Page at http://www.gtt-technologies.de/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Docu

Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell;" fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header"

N::Shell::rematein('CPAN::Shell', 'install', 'Config::Inifiles') call ed at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/CPAN.pm line 2165 CPAN::Shell::install('CPAN::Shell', 'Config::Inifiles') called at /usr/l ib/perl5/5.8/CPAN.pm line 201 eval {...} call

perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails

/ libwww-perl-5.800/lib/HTTP/ libwww-perl-5.800/lib/HTTP/Cookies.pm /usr/bin/tar: Skipping to next header /usr/bin/tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers /usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Couldn't untar /home/sp/.cpan/sources/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/libwww-pe