Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell; " fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header"

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:

> If they want a different directory, it still doesn't hurt to force ~/.cpan
> to binmode (except in so far as it uses up the AIUI limited number of
> mounts).  I'd advocate putting it in a postinstall script.

Yes, it does sometimes.  There used a problem doing "rm" when a mount
directory doesn't exist -- the root directory was erased.  I don't have a
spare system available to experiment with it now.
I had this problem when I did "rm -rf ~/something", where "~/something"
was mounted explicitly, but didn't exist.  At a guess, if the mount point
doesn't exist, the directory resolves to "/", and that's what is being
erased.

> > Anyway: PTA,
> > Gerrit

Adverse Aftereffect of an Abundance of Acronyms (AAAA). :-)

> /me looks around, certain that that *can't* have been addressed to me :)

I thought the "official" acronym for *that* was "PITA"?  Perhaps it's time
to add it to the OLOCA?  Oh, well, perhaps when I see it actually *used*
rather than hinted upon...
	Igor
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