Show quoted text>>>>> On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:29:53 -0500 (EST), "Guest via RT" <bug-CPAN@rt.cpan.org> said:
> 1. I'm running MSWin32-x86-multi-thread.
Show quoted text > 2. I start perl -MCPAN -e shell
Show quoted text > 3. It tells me I should upgrade, and it "should be seamless", however,
> after taking the advice and doing the upgrade, my perl installation is
> destroyed because Makemaker doesn't work on my platform anymore, and
> now everything else I do fails.
Can you describe in more detail what fails? Maybe you hit a bug I
do not know of yet.
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The failing tests there have been fixed in the 1.86_51, 1.86_52,
1.86_53, and 1.87 releases. They were by no means critical failures
(as ar as I can tell).
Show quoted text > So not only should I have NOT been asked to "Upgrade" nor told it was
> going to be "seamless" - I *should* have been TOLD *NOT* to upgrade
> for the time being, untill testing on my platform has succeeded!
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I will change the wording of
the upgrade advice. I already prepared for release 1.88 with he
following change:
Index: lib/CPAN.pm
===================================================================
--- lib/CPAN.pm (revision 675)
+++ lib/CPAN.pm (working copy)
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
# -*- Mode: cperl; coding: utf-8; cperl-indent-level: 4 -*-
package CPAN;
-$VERSION = '1.87';
+$VERSION = '1.88';
$VERSION = eval $VERSION;
use strict;
@@ -3589,13 +3589,14 @@
local($^W)= 0;
if ($version > $CPAN::VERSION){
$CPAN::Frontend->myprint(qq{
- There's a new CPAN.pm version (v$version) available!
- [Current version is v$CPAN::VERSION]
+ New CPAN.pm version (v$version) available.
+ [Currently running version is v$CPAN::VERSION]
You might want to try
install CPAN
reload cpan
- without quitting the current session. It should be a seamless upgrade
- while we are running...
+ to both upgrade CPAN.pm and run the new version without leaving
+ the current session.
+
}); #});
sleep 2;
$CPAN::Frontend->myprint(qq{\n});
@@ -8219,6 +8220,13 @@
installation instructions of that package still works in your
environment.
+=head1 SECURITY ADVICE
+
+This software enables you to upgrade software on your computer and so
+is inherently dangerous because the newly installed software may
+contain bugs and may alter the way your computer works or even make it
+unusable. Please consider backing up your data before every upgrade.
+
=head1 AUTHOR
Andreas Koenig C<< <andk@cpan.org> >>
--
andreas
