Bug 130263 - default CPAN mirror does not exist
Summary: default CPAN mirror does not exist
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: perl
Version: 3.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Vipool Rathod
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-08-18 15:54 UTC by Vipool Rathod
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-08-30 16:14:07 UTC
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Description Vipool Rathod 2004-08-18 15:54:21 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6)
Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8

Description of problem:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN.pm contains the default site for perl
modules - "ftp://ftp.perl.org".  The site seems to not exist.  I
believe the default sites could be "http:://www.perl.com/CPAN" or
"http://www.cpan.org".


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
perl-CPAN-1.61-88.4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Move /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN/Config.pm aside if you already
configured CPAN.
2. at shell prompt: "perl -MCPAN -eshell"
3. accept defaults until you get to the point where a list of mirrors
are downloaded.  This will not work.


Actual Results:  Asked to enter in a mirror by hand.

Expected Results:  Mirrors should be downloaded and a list produced.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Chip Turner 2004-08-30 15:51:05 UTC
seems to work for me; are you sure you don't have a firewall or proxy
or something blocking it from working for you?

Comment 2 Vipool Rathod 2004-08-30 16:14:07 UTC
Sorry, I think at the time I submitted the bug the site was going
through some DNS changes.  It looks okay now.  Although, the site
looks like a mirror in VA and the FTP server there seems picky (I'm
blocking identd).  Perhaps pointing to one of the default CPAN sites
may be a good idea?  I'm going to set this as resolved since this is
now more of a suggestion than a bug.  Thanks for looking into it.


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