saintmike has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hmmm ... does anyone know why going to DBD::Sybase on search.cpan.org, then clicking on DBD-Sybase-1.04 and then Download gets me the DBD::Sybase distribution tarball, while in a CPAN shell (mirror: ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/pub/CPAN) I get: 

cpan> i DBD::Sybase

Strange distribution name [DBD::Sybase]Module id = DBD::Sybase
    DESCRIPTION  Sybase Driver for DBI
    CPAN_USERID  MEWP (Michael Peppler <mpeppler@peppler.org>)
    CPAN_VERSION undef
    CPAN_FILE    Contact Author Michael Peppler <mpeppler@peppler.org>
    DSLI_STATUS  RmcO (released,mailing-list,C,object-oriented)
    INST_FILE    (not installed)

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Is one of the package files CPAN.pm derives its information from not accurate?

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Re: DBD::Sybase not on CPAN?
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Oct 14, 2004 at 00:15 UTC
    No, 02packages.details.txt.gz does not list DBD::Sybase 
    DBD::SQLite                        1.07  M/MS/MSERGEANT/DBD-SQLite-1.0
+7.tar.gz
DBD::SQLite2                       0.33  M/MS/MSERGEANT/DBD-SQLite2-0.
+33.tar.gz
DBD::SQLRelay                       0.1  D/DM/DMOW/DBD-SQLrelay-0.1.ta
+r.gz
DBD::Template                      0.01  K/KW/KWITKNR/DBD-Template-0.0
+1.tar.gz
DBD::TemplateSS                    0.01  K/KW/KWITKNR/DBD-Template-0.0
+1.tar.gz

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    You should report this to modules NAT perl.org

    MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
    I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
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      Should also contact Michael Peppler to make sure it is just exclusively a CPAN issue. (verification).

      Jason L. Froebe

      No one has seen what you have seen, and until that happens, we're all going to think that you're nuts. - Jack O'Neil, Stargate SG-1

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Re: DBD::Sybase not on CPAN?
by mpeppler (Vicar) on Oct 14, 2004 at 05:50 UTC
    Mea culpa. I had uploaded a "dev" release called 1.04.8 which CPAN promptly used as the most recent production release (it should have been called 1.04_8 to be considered a dev release). So I deleted it - and that apparently screwed up the indexing. I've just requested that 1.04 be reindexed, and things should be back to normal in a few hours.

    Michael

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      Things are back to normal now, thanks!
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