Is it bit-rot? Does no one care? (Sorry, that's inappropriate).

I spent a lot of time getting all the important and optional dependencies for CPAN.pm installed this evening, including CPAN::SQLite, and its dependency, DBD::SQLite which I had to grab an older release of to get it to compile, but that's another adventure ...).

Now nothing will be recognized as a distribution, and before that state, I saw the following error:

EDIT:

This obviously an error from an instance of cpanplus, I am apparently tired and confused.

[ERROR] Dir '' does not exist

Key 'dir' () is of invalid type for 'CPANPLUS::Internals::Utils::_chdi
+r' provided by CPANPLUS::Module::Signature::check_signature at /usr/l
+ocal/share/perl/5.28.1/CPANPLUS/Module/Signature.pm line 61.
[ERROR] Dir '' does not exist

Key 'dir' () is of invalid type for 'CPANPLUS::Internals::Utils::_chdi
+r' provided by CPANPLUS::Dist::_resolve_prereqs at /usr/local/share/p
+erl/5.28.1/CPANPLUS/Dist.pm line 835.
Running [/usr/bin/perl -MCPANPLUS::Internals::Utils::Autoflush /root/.
+cpanplus/5.28.1/build/25tEDk2MKd/File-TreeBuilder-0.02/Makefile.PL]..
+.
[ERROR] Could not run '/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL':  -- cannot continue

[ERROR] Dir '' does not exist

Key 'dir' () is of invalid type for 'CPANPLUS::Internals::Utils::_chdi
+r' provided by CPANPLUS::Dist::MM::prepare at /usr/local/share/perl/5
+.28.1/CPANPLUS/Dist/MM.pm line 441.
[ERROR] Could not chdir back to start dir ''
[ERROR] Unable to create a new distribution object for 'File::TreeBuil
+der' -- cannot continue

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The genuine cpan error

$ cpan install File::TreeBuilder
CPAN: Term::ANSIColor loaded ok (v4.06)
CPAN: CPAN::SQLite loaded ok (v0.220)
CPAN: YAML::Syck loaded ok (v1.34)
Reading 8 yaml files from /home/somian/.cpan/build/
DONE
Restored the state of none (in 0.0359 secs)
Database was generated on Sat, 21 Dec 2024 02:14:45 GMT
Could not expand [File::TreeBuilder]. Check the module name.

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I was working on a Debian system and I was hoping for ease and straightfowardness. Aaaaaugh. Back to using cpanplus

EDIT

(which is perfectly good) which is also broken.

Versions info:
perl (v5.28.1), i686-linux-gnu-thread-multi-64int
CPAN v1.64
Dec 21, 2024 at 03:49 UTC

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