A CHECKSUMS file is in each CPAN author directory; for example, see http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GR/GRANTM/. They are generated automatically, and from some random browsing of recent arrivals, appear to be updated about 3 hours or so after the latest release in a particular directory. So in principle there may be a time delay present between a distribution and it's appearance in the CHECKSUMS file. However, XML-Simple was last updated on 29-Jan-2005, and the CHECKSUMS file at www.cpan.org is dated 11-Nov-2005, so there shouldn't be a problem in this respect. This probably means you're either using an out-of-synch mirror or there was a problem in the network transfer.

In reply to Re^2: How do the checksums on CPAN get updated? by randyk
in thread How do the checksums on CPAN get updated? by thor

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