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Re: cpan can't find its own tempfile


> Andrew Schulman schrieb:
> > I'm trying to use cpan (perl 5.10.1-2) to install Spreadsheet::Read.
> > When I try, I get a whole bunch of errors like e.g.
> >
> > Warning: expected file
> > [/home/ASchulma/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp6012]
> > doesn't exist
> >
> > Error while trying to rename
> > '/home/ASchulma/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp6012' to
> > '/home/ASchulma/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz': No such file
> > or directoryLockfile removed.
> >
> > And indeed, the file 01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp6012 doesn't exist:
> >
> > $ ls -l /home/ASchulma/.cpan/sources/authors
> > total 5
> > -rw-r-----+ 1 ASchulma Domain Users 779 2010-01-14 12:28 01mailrc.txt.tmp6012
> > -rw-r-----+ 1 ASchulma Domain Users 388 2010-01-14 12:28 01mailrc.txt.tmp6012.gz
> >
> > It seems that cpan is trying to find 01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp6012, when
> > what it really wants is 01mailrc.txt.tmp6012.gz; or vice versa.
> >
> > cygcheck -srv output is attached.
> 
> This is a known problem when none of your CPAN download methods
> (LWP, curl, wget, ...) work or your proxy is wrong or your mirror 
> setting is wrong.

OK.  Any suggestions on how I can figure out which of those is the problem?
I'm not sure about LWP, but wget and curl both work from the command line,
without a proxy.  Wrong mirror?  How would I fix that?  Maybe it was set
wrong during the automatic initial setup-- how do I clear that?

Thanks,
Andrew.


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