Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 130263
default CPAN mirror does not exist
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:03 EST
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:
seems to work for me; are you sure you don't have a firewall or proxy or something blocking it from working for you?
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.