Re: Perl 5.8.0 breaks CPAN.pm
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 02:59:18PM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote:
>Having CPAN insist on using /etc/perl/CPAN as it's repository makes it
>next to impossible for non-root usage. At the very least the code
>should be willing to continue using ~/.cpan/CPAN if /etc/perl/CPAN
>fails.
Oops, inadequate testing... I tried root first, then user which both
worked.
The problem is that the mkpath here:
if (-d $configpmdir or File::Path::mkpath($configpmdir)) {
croaks rather than fails. I'll include the /etc/perl/CPAN dir in the
deb.
--bod
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