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Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
- To: Stephan Petersen <sp at gtt-technologies dot de>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 18:27:53 +0200
- Subject: Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <41235C84.7060300@gtt-technologies.de>
- Reply-to: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
Stephan wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I just ran "perl -MCPAN -e shell" and tried to install Bundle::LWP.
> But when it does "Scanning cache /home/sp/.cpan/build for sizes", see
> below, it chokes with (see output below):
> /usr/bin/tar: Skipping to next header
> /usr/bin/tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
> I removed all ~/.cpan stuff, tried it again, no difference.
> Does anybody have an idea what's going on?
> Thanks in advance for any pointers,
Of course I tried it before uploading the apckage, it works here with my
W2k and with XP Pro. Sorry, cannot reproduce it.
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