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Id: 17718
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: CPANPLUS
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: dma [...] knight-rider.org
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Severity: Critical
Broken in: 0.0562
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Fri Feb 17 18:55:21 2006 Guest - Ticket created
Subject: Rebuild command fails after loss of network on new module install.
Steps: cpanp i Net::Telnet pull the network cord. (in my case lost my router.) Now get this? Could not install Net::Telnet. said corrupt source tree.. CPAN Terminal> x [ERROR] Error rebuilding source trees! CPAN Terminal> purge [CP_MSG] [Fri Feb 17 17:51:43 2006] Checking if source files are up to date [CP_MSG] [Fri Feb 17 17:51:43 2006] Rebuilding author tree, this might take a wh ile [CP_MSG] [Fri Feb 17 17:51:43 2006] Rebuilding module tree, this might take a wh ile [CP_ERROR] [Fri Feb 17 17:51:43 2006] Error rebuilding source trees! There doesn't seem to be any docs to how to resolve this or even a hint in the error message. Would be good to be more descriptive of why it fails to rebuild. perl -v This is perl, v5.8.7 built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi uname -a Linux eclipse 2.6.12-1-k7 #1 Tue Sep 6 16:28:10 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux (Debian) Damon
  Fri Mar 03 09:54:56 2006 kane [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
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> There doesn't seem to be any docs to how to resolve this or even a hint > in the error message. Would be good to be more descriptive of why it > fails to rebuild.
I've improved the documentation on what to do. both the help command and the documentation now show the --update_source switch that forces refetching of the CPAN sources, and a failed x command will also give you a hint on what to do. This has been committed as change 12390: CPAN Terminal> x [MSG] Checking if source files are up to date [ERROR] Error rebuilding source trees! Failure may be due to corrupt source files Try this: x --update_source CPAN Terminal> x --update_source [...] CPAN Terminal> Hopefully this will make it easier in the future to discern what is happening. Thanks for reporting,
  Fri Mar 03 09:54:57 2006 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Fri Mar 03 09:54:59 2006 kane [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'