Bug #102819 for CPAN: If -j is given cpan does not enter the shell

Tue Mar 17 03:21:18 2015 SZABGAB [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

If -j is given cpan does not enter the shell

If I run "cpan" I get the cpan shell. If I run "cpan -j ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm" I get "Nothing to install!". I'd like to be able to enter the shell even when I supply my own configuration file. using cpan script version 1.63, CPAN.pm version 2.10"

Tue Mar 17 06:46:16 2015 bdfoy [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I've add a -s switch to explicitly ask to drop into the shell. To make it work with only the -j option I'd have to rearrange how most of the option processing works since -i is the default option after the setup is done. I think that's still the best default. It may take a bit for this to be merged into master.

Tue Mar 17 06:46:17 2015 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Tue Mar 17 06:46:23 2015 bdfoy [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'patched'

Tue Mar 17 06:46:24 2015 bdfoy [...] cpan.org - Taken

Tue Mar 17 06:57:21 2015 SZABGAB [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Tue Mar 17 06:46:16 2015, BDFOY wrote: Show quoted text

> I've add a -s switch to explicitly ask to drop into the shell. To make > it work with only the -j option I'd have to rearrange how most of the > option processing works since -i is the default option after the setup > is done. I think that's still the best default. > > It may take a bit for this to be merged into master.

I am not sure I understand this. Does -i gets turned on if there is -j on the command line? Otherwise I am not sure why would the cases in which I used cpan differ. In both cases CPAN was already configured.

Tue Mar 17 07:00:51 2015 bdfoy [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #102819] If -j is given cpan does not enter the shell
Date:	Tue, 17 Mar 2015 06:59:29 -0400
To:	"bug-CPAN [...] rt.cpan.org" <bug-CPAN [...] rt.cpan.org>
From:	brian d foy <bdfoy [...] cpan.org>

-i is turned on if there are any arguments but one of the arguments does not invoke a CPAN.pm option. It does not look at the argument list after options such as -j. To do that I'd have to rearrange quite a bit.

Tue Mar 17 07:03:21 2015 SZABGAB [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

For me don't bother. I think I found a work around and even the bug I was hunting.

Fri Dec 28 16:04:00 2018 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

837ea4b6947bd827c0de177eb54f0aebe59d42ef was the commit that introduced -s. Release 2.14 was the next non-trial release. Thanks!

Fri Dec 28 16:04:01 2018 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'patched' to 'resolved'

Fri Dec 28 16:04:01 2018 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Fixed in 2.14 added