After some investigation I could discover that the cpan-shell always tries to download this file again if its date is not of today.

I read your post last night without much idea on what one might do about it. And I'm intrigued about what one might do with strawberry perl on USB. What types of things does a person do with such a stick, I wonder?

This morning, I was working on my own cpan "problems," and I got this from STDOUT:

 MIYAGAWA/App-cpanminus-1.7044.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make -- OK
The current configuration of allow_installing_outdated_dists is 'ask/y
+es', but for this option we would need 'CPAN::DistnameInfo' installed
+. Please install 'CPAN::DistnameInfo' as soon as possible. As long as
+ we are not equipped with 'CPAN::DistnameInfo' this option does not t
+ake effect
Running make test for MIYAGAWA/App-cpanminus-1.7044.tar.gz

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Then I ran o conf and saw this:

cpan[1]> o conf
$CPAN::Config options from /home/hogan/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm:
    commit             [Commit changes to disk]
    defaults           [Reload defaults from disk]
    help               [Short help about 'o conf' usage]
    init               [Interactive setting of all options]

    allow_installing_module_downgrades undef
    allow_installing_outdated_dists undef

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, and I see that your values are the same. If cpan believes that old modules are alright, it might not think it had to go change it.

Hope this helps,

(if not, I still have 2 strikes)

In reply to Re: Offline cpan used by strawberry perl by Aldebaran
in thread Offline cpan used by strawberry perl by Dirk80

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