| Subject: | config file not created if config and cache directories differ |
I'm installing CPANPLUS on a clean iBook. CPANPLUS has never been installed on this machine before. I chose option 2 for the location of the config file (~/.cpanplus/config) but when asked where the cache should be located I said /var/local/cpanplus.
As a result ~/.cpanplus was never created. It seems to assume that your config and cache directories will be in the same place.
Here's some relevant output
(note that /var is a symlink to /private/var on OS X)
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If you are unsure what to answer here, just hit ENTER and CPANPLUS will try to
put your Configuration file in the default location.
1) /Library/Perl/5.8.1/CPANPLUS/Config.pm
2) /Users/schwern/.cpanplus/config
3) Somewhere else
Location of the Configuration file [1]: 2
OK, I will save your Configure file to:
/Users/schwern/.cpanplus/config
...later...
The CPAN++ module needs a directory of its own to cache important index
files and maybe keep a temporary mirror of CPAN files. This may be a
site-wide directory or a personal directory.
First of all, I'd like to create this directory. Where?
[/Users/schwern/.cpanplus]: /var/local/cpanplus
Your CPAN++ build and cache directory has been set to:
/private/var/local/cpanplus
...later...
Your current hosts are:
cpan.pair.com
archive.progeny.com
ftp.cpan.org
Couldn't write to /Users/schwern/.cpanplus/config: No such file or directory at /usr/local/src/CPAN/CPANPLUS-0.0499/lib/CPANPLUS/Configure.pm line 397
Can't locate /Users/schwern/.cpanplus/config in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/src/CPAN/CPANPLUS-0.0499/inc /usr/local/src/CPAN/CPANPLUS-0.0499/lib t/lib /sw/lib/perl5/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level /sw/lib/perl5/5.8.1 /sw/lib/perl5 /sw/lib/perl5/darwin /System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.8.1 /Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.1 /Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.1 /Network/Library/Perl .) at /usr/local/src/CPAN/CPANPLUS-0.0499/lib/CPANPLUS/Configure.pm line 403.
[/usr/local/src/CPAN/CPANPLUS-0.0499] ls -ld /Users/schwern/
drwxr-xr-x 46 schwern schwern 1.5k Oct 11 13:48 /Users/schwern/
[/usr/local/src/CPAN/CPANPLUS-0.0499] ls -ld /Users/schwern/.cpanplus
/sw/bin/ls: /Users/schwern/.cpanplus: No such file or directory
[/usr/local/src/CPAN/CPANPLUS-0.0499] whoami
schwern