Re: [gentoo-perl] [g-cpan] last call for bugs

[Michael Cummings]

Glad I asked :)

I've a few ideas, should have them posted by mid-morning (your time ;) )


On Sunday 15 May 2005 18:03, Antoine Raillon wrote:
> Le dimanche 15 mai 2005 à 17:39 -0400, Michael Cummings a écrit :
> > Mostly :)
> >
> > OK, anyone have any bugs (functional issues) with the current state of
> > g-cpan?
>
> Erhm yes, juste found a big one (but should be easy to correct)
>
> Context :
> - running as user (member of portage group)
> - no ~/.cpan
> - PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage (drwxr-xr-x   2 root root)
>
> when I run a g-cpan -u, i got :
>
> ####################################################"
> cab@hoki ~/gentoo/gentoo-perl/trunk/bin $ ./g-cpan -u
> * No CPAN Config found, auto-generating a basic one
> in /home/cab/.cpan/CPAN
> mkdir /home/cab/.cpan
> mkdir /home/cab/.cpan/CPAN
> Use of uninitialized value in -d at ./g-cpan line 692 (#1)
>     (W uninitialized) An undefined value was used as if it were already
>     defined.  It was interpreted as a "" or a 0, but maybe it was a
> mistake.
>     To suppress this warning assign a defined value to your variables.
>
>     To help you figure out what was undefined, perl tells you what
> operation
>     you used the undefined value in.  Note, however, that perl optimizes
> your
>     program and the operation displayed in the warning may not
> necessarily
>     appear literally in your program.  For example, "that $foo" is
>     usually optimized into "that " . $foo, and the warning will refer to
>     the concatenation (.) operator, even though there is no . in your
>     program.
>
> mkdir /usr/local/portage/perl-gcpan
> Uncaught exception from user code:
>         mkdir /usr/local/portage/perl-gcpan: Permission non accordée
> at ./g-cpan line 194
>  at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/File/Path.pm line 153
>         File::Path::mkpath('/usr/local/portage/perl-gcpan', 1, 493)
> called at ./g-cpan line 194
>
> ##############################
>
> btw, when i run it the second time :
>
> ##############################
> cab@hoki ~/gentoo/gentoo-perl/trunk/bin $ ./g-cpan -u
> mkdir /usr/local/portage/perl-gcpan
> Uncaught exception from user code:
>         mkdir /usr/local/portage/perl-gcpan: Permission non accordée
> at ./g-cpan line 194
>  at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/File/Path.pm line 153
>         File::Path::mkpath('/usr/local/portage/perl-gcpan', 1, 493)
> called at ./g-cpan line 194
> #############################
>
> typical permission problem ;p
> however there's also this unitialised thing on the first run.. ;)
>
> just reporting, can't fix tonight ;p
>
> --
> cab

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