Re^2: problems updating CPAN via CPAN

Hi, Upgrade is not possible. It's SLES 11 SP4 and SLES tries to keep the versions running as long as possible. That is the idea of an enterprise version. We don't have commercial support. If modules are available through SLES i prefer these, because rpm's can be deleted completely from the system. I don't know how to remove a package cleanly which i installed with CPAN. Is there a way ? Perl is used for a web application. I managed to install Bundle::Cpan with just 2 errors. Everything seem to rune fine although i don't really trust it. What is the difference between Bundle::Cpan and CPAN ? Maybe you have also an answer for these two questions:

#   Database was generated on Tue, 03 Feb 1970 03:17:06 GMT
# Warning: This index file is 16794 days old.
#   Please check the host you chose as your CPAN mirror for staleness.
#   I'll continue but problems seem likely to happen.
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What does this mean ? I get it quite often, also on other systems. And what does this mean ?

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Not in MANIFEST: blib/man3/CPAN::Mirrors.3pm
Not in MANIFEST: blib/man3/CPAN::Nox.3pm
Not in MANIFEST: blib/man3/CPAN::Plugin.3pm
Not in MANIFEST: blib/man3/CPAN::Plugin::Specfile.3pm
Not in MANIFEST: blib/man3/CPAN::Queue.3pm
Not in MANIFEST: blib/man3/CPAN::Tarzip.3pm
Not in MANIFEST: blib/man3/CPAN::Version.3pm
Not in MANIFEST: blib/script/.exists
Not in MANIFEST: blib/script/cpan
Not in MANIFEST: blib/script/cpan-mirrors
Not in MANIFEST: Makefile
Not in MANIFEST: MYMETA.json
Not in MANIFEST: MYMETA.yml
Not in MANIFEST: pm_to_blib
==> MISMATCHED content between MANIFEST and distribution files! <==
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I also get it sometimes. Thanks. Bernd

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Re^3: problems updating CPAN via CPAN by u65 (Chaplain) on Jan 28, 2016 at 15:15 UTC
I assume that you haven't used CPAN as a non-root user. I would manually edit root's MyConfig.pm file and eliminate all URLs except one good mirror. Then post the contents of that file where we can see it. Later we may have to uninstall all Perl modules installed by your package manager, and then investigate your system to see what modules remain. Many monks here know lots of Perl system magic to help in the cleanup. Update: One more option is to use cpanm instead of CPAN if we start with a system-clean configuration.	[reply]
Re^4: problems updating CPAN via CPAN by e-ferrari (Novice) on Jan 28, 2016 at 16:28 UTC
You are right, i always used cpan als root. Here is my config: /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/CPAN/Config.pm. I don't have config in my home. # This is CPAN.pm's systemwide configuration file. This file provides # defaults for users, and the values can be changed in a per-user # configuration file. $CPAN::Config = { 'applypatch' => q[], 'auto_commit' => q[0], 'build_cache' => q[100], 'build_dir' => q[/root/.cpan/build], 'build_dir_reuse' => q[1], 'build_requires_install_policy' => q[ask/yes], 'bzip2' => q[/usr/bin/bzip2], 'cache_metadata' => q[1], 'check_sigs' => q[0], 'commandnumber_in_prompt' => q[1], 'connect_to_internet_ok' => q[1], 'cpan_home' => q[/root/.cpan], 'curl' => q[/usr/bin/curl], 'ftp' => q[/usr/bin/ftp], 'ftp_passive' => q[1], 'ftp_proxy' => q[], 'getcwd' => q[cwd], 'gpg' => q[/usr/bin/gpg], 'gzip' => q[/usr/bin/gzip], 'halt_on_failure' => q[0], 'histfile' => q[/root/.cpan/histfile], 'histsize' => q[100], 'http_proxy' => q[], 'inactivity_timeout' => q[0], 'index_expire' => q[1], 'inhibit_startup_message' => q[0], 'keep_source_where' => q[/root/.cpan/sources], 'load_module_verbosity' => q[v], 'lynx' => q[/usr/bin/lynx], 'make' => q[/usr/bin/make], 'make_arg' => q[], 'make_install_arg' => q[], 'make_install_make_command' => q[/usr/bin/make], 'makepl_arg' => q[], 'mbuild_arg' => q[], 'mbuild_install_arg' => q[], 'mbuild_install_build_command' => q[./Build], 'mbuildpl_arg' => q[], 'ncftp' => q[], 'ncftpget' => q[], 'no_proxy' => q[], 'pager' => q[less], 'patch' => q[/usr/bin/patch], 'perl5lib_verbosity' => q[none], 'prefer_external_tar' => q[1], 'prefer_installer' => q[MB], 'prefs_dir' => q[/root/.cpan/prefs], 'prerequisites_policy' => q[ask], 'recommends_policy' => q[1], 'scan_cache' => q[atstart], 'shell' => q[/bin/bash], 'show_unparsable_versions' => q[0], 'show_upload_date' => q[0], 'show_zero_versions' => q[0], 'suggests_policy' => q[0], 'tar' => q[/bin/tar], 'tar_verbosity' => q[v], 'term_is_latin' => q[1], 'term_ornaments' => q[1], 'test_report' => q[0], 'trust_test_report_history' => q[0], 'unzip' => q[/usr/bin/unzip], 'urllist' => [q[ftp://ftp.mpi-inf.mpg.de/pub/perl/CPAN/]], 'use_prompt_default' => q[0], 'use_sqlite' => q[0], 'version_timeout' => q[15], 'wget' => q[/usr/bin/wget], 'yaml_load_code' => q[0], 'yaml_module' => q[YAML], }; 1; __END__ [download]	[reply] [d/l]