Bug #17568 for CPANPLUS: bad diagnostics from checksum errors/cpan2dist

On Fri Feb 10 05:15:12 2006, KANE wrote: Show quoted text
I've not been able to reproduce this on my machine. Perhaps if you can reproduce this with --verbose enabled, the messages will make a bit more sense to me. Show quoted text
This part i've fixed by adding an explicit check to see if the dist object exists. It will handle the failure more gracefully now.

On Fri Mar 03 10:21:09 2006, KANE wrote: Show quoted text
I'm seeing something much like the above on Perl 5.8.6 on darwin (OSX 10.4.5) % cpanp CPANPLUS::Shell::Default -- CPAN exploration and module installation (v0.061) *** Please report bugs to <bug-cpanplus@rt.cpan.org>. *** Using CPANPLUS::Backend v0.061. ReadLine support enabled. CPAN Terminal> i File::HomeDir [MSG] Checking if source files are up to date [MSG] Retrieving /Users/chris/.cpanplus/sourcefiles.2.15.stored Installing File::HomeDir [MSG] Trying to get 'http://mirrors.kernel.org/cpan/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/File-HomeDir-0.56.tar.gz' '/Users/chris/.cpanplus/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/File-HomeDir-0.56.tar.gz' is an invalid value for 'fetch' at /Users/chris/perl/lib/perl5/site_perl/CPANPLUS/Module.pm line 441 [MSG] Trying to get 'http://mirrors.kernel.org/cpan/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/CHECKSUMS' '5f1b32a3fb9e4e5267e93e55c0994bc9' is an invalid value for 'checksum_value' at /Users/chris/perl/lib/perl5/site_perl/CPANPLUS/Shell/Default.pm line 812 [ERROR] Checksum error for 'File-HomeDir-0.56.tar.gz' -- will not trust package CPAN Terminal> q Exiting CPANPLUS shell % ls ~/.cpanplus/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/ CHECKSUMS Class-Inspector-1.12.tar.gz Config-Tiny-2.02.tar.gz File-HomeDir-0.56.tar.gz PPI-1.003.tar.gz PPI-1.101.tar.gz PPI-1.103.tar.gz PPI-1.109.tar.gz PPI-1.110.tar.gz Params-Util-0.05.tar.gz Params-Util-0.06.tar.gz Params-Util-0.07.tar.gz Params-Util-0.08.tar.gz Params-Util-0.10.tar.gz Perl-Metrics-0.03.tar.gz Test-ClassAPI-1.02.tar.gz Test-SubCalls-0.01.tar.gz Test-SubCalls-0.02.tar.gz Test-SubCalls-0.03.tar.gz -- Chris

I've tracked the error down. It's a bootstrap problem that only happens on the day you upgrade to CPANPLUS 0.06x. I launched "cpanp" this morning under 0.0562, so my Storable cache had 0.0562 CP::Module instances, but it looks like the format changed somewhat and I was getting Modules with bad status() objects (all had undef ALLOW properties where they should have been instances of the ANYTHING_CLASS), so Param::Check was indicating failures. The workaround was simply to reload via 'x', then all is well. My suggestion: when CPANPLUS upgrades itself, it should always rebuild the indexes. Chris