Bug #16325 for Sys-AlarmCall: can find 1.2 AlarmCall.pm in repository, not recognised by CPAN module

Tue Dec 06 16:44:07 2005 Guest - Ticket created

Subject:

can find 1.2 AlarmCall.pm in repository, not recognised by CPAN module

Hi, I've tried getting this module with the CPAN installer module and it cannot get it. install Sys::AlarmCall installs the 1.1 module, not the 1.2 The 1.2 module is important because it has the Makefile.PL that is lacking in the 1.1 module, so you get the module in the right place otherwise the installer renames the file thusly SysAlarmCall.pm whereas it should be in the Sys/ directory as AlarmCall.pm seems a shame that the fix does not seem to be available. See this printout .. only the old 1.1 module is available. I managed to get it with install http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/A/AB/ABH/Sys-AlarmCall-1.2.tar.gz So I'm OK :-). But I suppose something is wrong that the CPAN installer cannot find it. Show quoted text

cpan> cpan> i /AlarmCall/

CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:59:48 GMT Distribution J/JA/JACKS/AlarmCall-1.1.tar.gz Module Sys::AlarmCall (J/JA/JACKS/AlarmCall-1.1.tar.gz) 2 items found Show quoted text

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Tue Dec 06 17:25:47 2005 ask [...] perl.org - Correspondence added

From:	Ask Bjørn Hansen <ask [...] perl.org>
Subject:	Re: [cpan #16325] can find 1.2 AlarmCall.pm in repository, not recognised by CPAN module
Date:	Tue, 6 Dec 2005 14:25:08 -0800
To:	bug-Sys-AlarmCall [...] rt.cpan.org
RT-Send-Cc:

On Dec 6, 2005, at 1:44 PM, Guest via RT wrote: Strange, it should be indexed alright. I'll try getting it reindexed. - ask -- http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/

Thu Dec 08 08:20:32 2005 Guest - Correspondence added

[ask@perl.org - Tue Dec 6 17:25:47 2005]: Show quoted text

> > On Dec 6, 2005, at 1:44 PM, Guest via RT wrote: > > Strange, it should be indexed alright. I'll try getting it reindexed. > > > - ask

Hmmm, I've had another look - seems to be the mirror I was using which is Sheffield University. It works OK with another mirror. However, I had the problem immediatedly on using the CPAN installer and this is a new box, so I THEN (after the initial incorrect 1.1 download) set the repository to shef.ac.uk. So, the shef.ac.uk mirror seems to be old/wrong but also I can only suppose other mirror(s) because I only select shef.ac because I was having the problem. ****************************************************** Fetching with LWP: ftp://usit.shef.ac.uk/pub/packages/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz Show quoted text

cpan> i /AlarmCall/

Distribution J/JA/JACKS/AlarmCall-1.1.tar.gz Module Sys::AlarmCall (J/JA/JACKS/AlarmCall-1.1.tar.gz) 2 items found ******************************************************* ***************************************************** ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/module s/03modlist.data.gz Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz Going to write /root/.cpan/Metadata Distribution A/AB/ABH/Sys-AlarmCall-1.2.tar.gz Module Sys::AlarmCall (A/AB/ABH/Sys-AlarmCall-1.2.tar.gz) **********************************************************