in reply to Upgrading CPAN

I've had problems with this as well recently, and from what I've read, it is not a good idea to upgrade CPAN.pm with CPAN, and instead is a better idea to download the sources and upgrade manually. I don't know if this is true, but I managed to fix it by re-emerging Perl on my Gentoo installation, and didn't bother trying to upgrade it after that, so YMMV.

---mmmmtmmmm

Update:

And by the way, here's a link to the sources:
CPAN.pm

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Re^2: Upgrading CPAN
by tinita (Parson) on Sep 10, 2007 at 10:36 UTC
    and from what I've read, it is not a good idea to upgrade CPAN.pm with CPAN
    i haven't read something like that. do you have a link?
    it has always been working for me.
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      Configuring CPAN

      Here is the article where I read that -- I don't know if it still applies (the article is talking about an older version of CPAN && Perl). I personally had problems installing Bundle::Cpan with CPAN, but perhaps this was due to my own ignorance of how to use it properly -- I just took the lazy route to fix it and did "emerge perl", which fixed cpan for me. Perhaps someone more knowledgable could say whether this article is outdated/untrue/etc...

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