Re: Re: Problems accessing CPAN with the shell

No proxy. I've got IPTables running on all machines, but the OUTPUT chain is open. Normal ftp and everything is working well. Here's an output from o conf (on a different machine than before, but they both have the same problem):

cpan> o conf
CPAN::Config options from /etc/perl/CPAN/Config.pm:
    commit             Commit changes to disk
    defaults           Reload defaults from disk
    init               Interactive setting of all options

    build_cache        10
    build_dir          /var/cache/cpan/build
    cache_metadata     1
    cpan_home          /var/cache/cpan/
    cpan_version_check 1
    dontload_hash
    ftp                /usr/bin/ftp
    ftp_proxy
    getcwd             cwd
    gpg                /usr/bin/gpg
    gzip               /bin/gzip
    histfile           /var/cache/cpan/histfile
    histsize           100
    http_proxy
    inactivity_timeout 0
    index_expire       1
    inhibit_startup_message 0
    keep_source_where  /var/cache/cpan/sources
    lynx               /usr/bin/lynx
    make               /usr/bin/make
    make_arg
    make_install_arg
    makepl_arg
    ncftpget           /usr/bin/ncftpget
    no_proxy
    pager              /usr/bin/less
    prerequisites_policy ask
    scan_cache         atstart
    shell              /bin/bash
    tar                /bin/tar
    term_is_latin      1
    unzip              /usr/bin/unzip
    urllist
        ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/languages/perl/CPAN
        ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/
        ftp://ftp.uit.no/pub/languages/perl/cpan/
        ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/CPAN/
    wget               /usr/bin/wget
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Actually, it is ncftpget, wget and lynx CPAN falls back to after a trail and error period with LWP and Net::FTP. Not that I really think LWP is any worse, but it is not any better either.

As for HTTP mirrors, I haven't tried one, when you ask. I'll add one and see what happens. Update: No improvement using a HTTP mirror.

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Re: Re: Re: Problems accessing CPAN with the shell by jmanning2k (Pilgrim) on Dec 11, 2003 at 20:13 UTC
If LWP and Net::FTP are failing, but the command line tools are working, try this command in a CPAN shell. `o conf dontload_hash "{ 'Net::FTP' => 1, 'LWP::UserAgent' => 1 }"` [download] This should make it skip the perl modules and jump right to the command line tools. My next step would probably be to reinstall LWP and Net::FTP. Perhaps newer versions or a reinstall will fix the issues you are having. Or, just be happy with wget, ncftpget, and lynx. ~J Update: Don't forget to do a `o conf commit` to save the CPAN config changes for future sessions.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Re: Re: Problems accessing CPAN with the shell
by jmanning2k (Pilgrim) on Dec 11, 2003 at 20:13 UTC

o conf dontload_hash "{ 'Net::FTP' => 1, 'LWP::UserAgent' => 1 }"
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This should make it skip the perl modules and jump right to the command line tools.

My next step would probably be to reinstall LWP and Net::FTP. Perhaps newer versions or a reinstall will fix the issues you are having. Or, just be happy with wget, ncftpget, and lynx.

Update: Don't forget to do a o conf commit to save the CPAN config changes for future sessions.

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