Recently I and other have had trouble installing latest versions of some modules, or upgrading to them. This happens both with CPAN.pm and with App::cpanminus 

$ cpanm HTML::Template
HTML::Template is up to date. (2.9)
$ cpanm WONKO/HTML-Template-2.10.tar.gz
# installs HTML::Template 2.10

[download]

This is an up-to-date App::cpanminus version 1.4008 on top of perl 5.14.1.

The same happens with CPAN.pm, and is independent of the used CPAN mirror (I've tried several that are usually rather reliable).

The search.cpan.org doesn't show the latest version as an unauthorized release, nor is it a developer release.

And I'm not the only one, tinita has experienced similar trouble, which boiled down to 

i HTTP::DetectUserAgent
CPAN_FILE    N/NA/NANZOU/HTTP-DetectUserAgent-0.01.tar.gz
ls nanzou
6707 2009-10-31 NANZOU/HTTP-DetectUserAgent-0.02.tar.gz

[download]

So CPAN.pm knows about both modules, but choses the older one by default.

For a moment I blamed network troubles in CPAN land, but that problem was also observed way before that notice.

So, does the PAUSE indexer have trouble updating the module lists? or is something else wonky? Who can fix it?

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In reply to Why don't CPAN.pm and cpanminus update modules, even if they know about newer modules? by moritz

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