11924 – perl-5.6.1-r9 does not build without properly configured CPAN

Bug 11924 - perl-5.6.1-r9 does not build without properly configured CPAN

Summary: perl-5.6.1-r9 does not build without properly configured CPAN

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2002-12-10 18:09 UTC by Uwe Reimann
Modified:	2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Uwe Reimann 2002-12-10 18:09:30 UTC

While trying to upgrade to perl-5.6.1-r9 I ran into an endless loop. The screen
was filled with the following lines:

Sorry! since you don't have any existing picks, you must make a
geographic selection.
Select your continent (or several nearby continents) [] 

I detected, that this was due to an unconfigured CPAN. CPAN is used in
pgk_postinst() to fetch ExtUtils::MakeMaker.

Manually configuring CPAN (perl -MCPAN -e shell) solved the problem.

However, IMHO the ebuild should configure CPAN or at least make it possible to
configure during merging.

Regards, Uwe

Comment 1 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-11 08:06:30 UTC

Uwe,

   -r9 was a masked ebuild, and this is part of the reason why. It has been 
removed from portage entirely as of this morning. If you re-emerge perl, please 
be sure to re-emerge ExtUtils-MakeMaker as well.

Comment 2 Uwe Reimann 2002-12-11 10:37:35 UTC

When I emerged perl-5.6.1-r9, it was definetly NOT masked. Neither by keywords,
nor by package.mask.

Right now, portage says that perl-5.8.0-r2 is current stable. Is that right?

Regards, Uwe