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

Hi,

I am trying to make a class that installs CPAN modules with the CPAN::Shell package. But if i run a command like: 

perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->o("conf")'

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It seems like the CPAN::Shell package are not honuring the configuration file. Output is as following: 

$CPAN::Config options from :
    commit             [Commit changes to disk]
    defaults           [Reload defaults from disk]
    help               [Short help about 'o conf' usage]
    init               [Interactive setting of all options]

    applypatch         undef
    auto_commit        undef
    build_cache        undef
    build_dir          undef
    build_dir_reuse    undef
    build_requires_install_policy undef
    bzip2              undef
    cache_metadata     undef
    check_sigs         undef
    colorize_debug     undef
    colorize_output    undef
(...)

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Its runned as root, and both Config.pm and MyConfig.pm is located under /root/.cpan/CPAN

Have anyone had this problem before, any suggestions on how to solve this?

Best regards

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Re: CPAN::Shell not loading CPAN config
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 16, 2010 at 09:04 UTC
    Output is as following...

    Turn on debugging/verbosity, check file permissions

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      Hm, cant find any verboose option with -h, but i've tried with the -W options to enable all warnings, nothing file related 

      perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->o("conf")' -W

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      If its a different command, please enlighten me.

      Since script is runned as root and the config files are owned by root i doubt this is the problem though

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        Your language isn't very clear. If I understand the question correctly, then I would try this: 
        perl -MCPAN::FirstTime -e 'CPAN::FirstTime::init();'

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        And from a script: 
        #!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use CPAN;
use CPAN::FirstTime;

CPAN::FirstTime::init();
CPAN::Shell->install(
"Bundle::CPAN",
"Bundle::LWP");

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