in reply to Speeding Up PPM

While playing around with timing some things, I discovered that one of the repositories has a bad PPM::Repositories. ppm returns with this: 
PPM::PPD::init: not a PPD and not a file:
<!-- BEGIN kwiki_screen -->
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/T
+R/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">


<!-- BEGIN kwiki_screen.html -->

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /
+>
  <title>
[snip]

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I tried to chase it down, through ppm, ppm3, and ppm3-bin. From the perldoc on ppm3-bin: 

SYNOPSIS
    Do not run *ppm3-bin* manually. It is meant to be called by the wr
+apper
    program *ppm3*. See ppm3.

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Gee. Considering that all ppm3 does is set some environment variables and call ppm3-bin, what to do?

I played with the repository order with rep up, and finally nailed it down to datetime. According to the Wayback Machine, there were ppd files, but not in a repository format. (But I could be mistaken.)

-QM
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