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Id: 18011
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: CPAN
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: sjn+cpan [...] pvv.org
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Severity: Important
Broken in: 1.87
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Mon Mar 06 10:14:13 2006 Guest - Ticket created
Subject: ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm is ignored (!)
When trying to run the cpan script (interactively) as a non-root user, I get the usual error message: =====================8<------------------------ CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok Your configuration suggests "/var/root/.cpan" as your CPAN.pm working directory. I could not create this directory due to this error: mkdir /var/root/.cpan: Permission denied at /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/CPAN.pm line 636 Please make sure the directory exists and is writable. ------------------->8=========================== Usually, I fix this by creating an almost-empty ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm and run again throuh the config init process. $ echo '$CPAN::Config={};' > ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm ...after which the cpan script usually works fine. BUT This doesn't work anymore! My system is as follows: $ perl -v This is perl, v5.8.6 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level (with 2 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail) $ uname -a Darwin fnord 8.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.5.0: Sun Jan 22 10:38:46 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.6.61.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc CPAN version: $ perl -MCPAN -le'print $CPAN::VERSION' 1.8751 Thanks for your time! :)
  Mon Mar 06 18:15:54 2006 andreas.koenig.gmwojprw [...] franz.ak.mind.de - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #18011] ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm is ignored (!)
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:15:34 +0100
To: bug-CPAN [...] rt.cpan.org
From: andreas.koenig.gmwojprw [...] franz.ak.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
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>>>>> On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 10:14:17 -0500 (EST), "Guest via RT" <bug-CPAN@rt.cpan.org> said:
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> Mon Mar 06 10:14:13 2006: Request 18011 was acted upon. > Transaction: Ticket created by guest > Queue: CPAN > Subject: ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm is ignored (!) > Owner: Nobody > Requestors: sjn+cpan@pvv.org > Status: new > Ticket <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=18011 >
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> When trying to run the cpan script (interactively) as a non-root user, I > get the usual error message:
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> =====================8<------------------------ > CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok
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> Your configuration suggests "/var/root/.cpan" as your > CPAN.pm working directory. I could not create this directory due > to this error: mkdir /var/root/.cpan: Permission denied at > /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/CPAN.pm line 636
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> Please make sure the directory exists and is writable.
-------------------> 8=========================== My version now says % /home/src/perl/repoperls/installed-perls/perl/p4pqpmS/perl-5.8.0@27350/bin/perl -Ilib -MCPAN -eshell CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok Your configuration suggests "/var/root/.cpan" as your CPAN.pm working directory. I could not create this directory due to this error: mkdir /var/root: Permission denied at lib/CPAN.pm line 636 Please make sure the directory exists and is writable. You don't seem to have a user configuration (MyConfig.pm) yet. Do you want to create a user configuration now? (Y/n) [yes] Seems much better to me. Show quoted text
> Usually, I fix this by creating an almost-empty ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm > and run again throuh the config init process.
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> $ echo '$CPAN::Config={};' > ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm
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> ...after which the cpan script usually works fine.
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> BUT
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> This doesn't work anymore!
You will probably like to use this workaround for now: perl -MCPAN -e mkmyconfig But apart from that advice, I must confess that I do not know why it does not work for you. Your idiom seems to work for me. Show quoted text
> Thanks for your time! :)
Thanks for your report! -- andreas
  Mon Mar 06 18:15:55 2006 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Sun Mar 12 04:49:40 2006 Guest - Correspondence added
Subject: same problem at earlier versions: perl 5.6.1/CPAN 1.59_54
From: Vassilii Khachaturov <vassilii [...] tarunz.org>
I have discovered similar problem as early as perl 5.6.1/CPAN 1.59_54: nlpproj-lvs-rs1 [11:47] ~/parse-eval>perl -MCPAN -le'print $CPAN::VERSION' 1.59_54 nlpproj-lvs-rs1 [11:47] ~/parse-eval>perl --version This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i386-linux Vassilii
  Sun Mar 12 04:58:21 2006 NUFFIN [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
From: nothingmuch [...] woobling.org
If you add: die "Error while requiring CPAN::MyConfig:\n$@" if $@ and $@ !~ m#^Can't locate CPAN/MyConfig\.pm in \@INC#; To CPAN::HandleConfig::load then the semantics of CPAN::MyConfig loading are cleaner. Additionally it should be documented that that CPAN::MyConfig should *change* $CPAN::Config, and not replace it for better "style".
  Sun Mar 12 04:59:37 2006 NUFFIN [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
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> To CPAN::HandleConfig::load then the semantics of CPAN::MyConfig > loading are cleaner.
I forgot to say where: line 248 in my version (bundled with 5.8.6), just after eval { require CPAN::MyConfig }.
  Sun Mar 12 08:56:02 2006 andreas.koenig.gmwojprw [...] franz.ak.mind.de - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #18011] ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm is ignored (!)
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:55:38 +0100
To: bug-CPAN [...] rt.cpan.org
From: andreas.koenig.gmwojprw [...] franz.ak.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
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>>>>> On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 04:59:38 -0500 (EST), "יובל קוג'מן via RT" <bug-CPAN@rt.cpan.org> said:
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> Queue: CPAN > Ticket <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=18011 >
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> On Sun Mar 12 04:58:21 2006, NUFFIN wrote:
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>> To CPAN::HandleConfig::load then the semantics of CPAN::MyConfig >> loading are cleaner.
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> I forgot to say where:
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> line 248 in my version (bundled with 5.8.6), just after eval { require CPAN::MyConfig }.
Thanks Vassilii, it appears to me that you have missed my answer of 'Mon Mar 06 18:15:54 2006' according to rt.cpan.org. I have now patched the trunk of my repositoy with a paraphrase of your suggestion in rev. 712 (untested). I can most probably _not_ make a release this weekend. So if you have svn, maybe you can try the trunk from my subversion repo: http://pause.perl.org:5459/svn/cpanpm/trunk or https://pause.perl.org:5460/svn/cpanpm/trunk ? Thanks, -- andreas
  Sun Jul 23 04:12:45 2006 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Fixed in 1.87_52 and _53 which were release yesterday
  Sun Jul 23 04:12:46 2006 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'