Subject: | "cpan ." is broken |
This is with CPAN 1.9258:
$ cpan -t .
You are visiting the local directory
'.'
without lock, take care that concurrent processes do not do likewise.
CPAN: Term::ANSIColor loaded ok (v1.10)
CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9708)
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.16)
Going to read /usr/local/src/CPAN/Metadata
Database was generated on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:32:28 GMT
You are visiting the local directory
'/.'
without lock, take care that concurrent processes do not do likewise.
CPAN: YAML::Syck loaded ok (v1.04)
CPAN: CPAN::Kwalify loaded ok (v5.401418)
CPAN: Kwalify loaded ok (v1.14)
Running make for /.
Package seems to come without Makefile.PL.
(The test -f "/Makefile.PL" returned false.)
Writing one on our own (setting NAME to unknown)
Could not open >/Makefile.PL: Permission denied at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 3536
Exitcode 13
(Yes, from looking at the truss output it really tries to write to the
root directory)
Regards,
Slaven