g-cpan.pl fails on ParseDate / frogbak with the message "Couldn't turn 'M/MU/MUIR/scripts/frogbak.tar.gz' into a directory name" I tried making g-cpan.pl 's portage_dir sub a little smarter. It got farther, but still didn't install: --- /usr/bin/g-cpan.pl.old 2004-07-04 11:27:26.777528976 -0700 +++ /usr/bin/g-cpan.pl 2004-07-04 11:30:16.756688216 -0700 @@ -145,8 +145,13 @@ $file =~ tr/_/-/; # turn this into a directory name suitable for portage tree - return undef unless ( $file =~ m|.*/(.*)-[^-]+\.| ); - return $1; + if ( $file =~ m|.*/(.*)-[^-]+\.| ) { + return $1; + } elsif ( $file =~ m|.*/([^.]*)\.| ) { + return $1; + } else { + return undef; + } } sub create_ebuild { Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: # g-cpan.pl ParseDate Actual Results: # g-cpan.pl ParseDate mkdir /tmp/perl-modules_22011 mkdir /tmp/perl-modules_22011/dev-perl CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Sat, 03 Jul 2004 22:05:10 GMT Couldn't turn 'M/MU/MUIR/scripts/frogbak.tar.gz' into a directory name # Expected Results: Build & install the ParseDate module. (This is on an SMP system) perl version 5.8.2-r1 # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7-gentoo-r6) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/www/localhost/htdocs/squirrelmail/config /var/www/localhost/htdocs/squirrelmail/data" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb cdr cjk crypt cups dvd encode flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww linguas_en_GB mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype v4l vim-with-x x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
I won't deny g-cpan is having trouble here - but not sure there is anything that can be done for it since the downloaded file in no way matches the name of the module to install. That said - ParseDate is actually provided by dev-perl/Time-modules, so the fault here is more with cpan 02packages than with g-cpan (for this particular case).
