Re^4: Getting Modules Hot Off the Keyboard

http://www.cpan.org/ appears to be the correct setting.

I notice that whenever today I have attempted to 'get' or 'test' a module, the shell gives me a message like this:

cpan> get Test::Tester
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /Users/jimk/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Sat, 08 Oct 2005 08:01:00 GMT
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... which suggests to me that I'm not getting the hot-off-the-keyboard distributions because the Metadata file has not yet been updated. Is that the obstacle?

Jim Keenan

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Re^5: Getting Modules Hot Off the Keyboard by randyk (Parson) on Oct 09, 2005 at 04:53 UTC
That sounds like it could be the case - as well as having a current mirror to get the latest versions, you also need, when using CPAN/CPANPLUS, versions of the indices under $CPAN/modules/ and $CPAN/authors/ that have been updated to include recent uploads. This is done, I think, a couple of times a day.	[reply]