It appears that a trailing "-" gets into the wrong place. host ~ # g-cpan -i IO::Stty mkdir /tmp/perl-modules_23614 mkdir /tmp/perl-modules_23614/perl-gcpan CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:39:19 GMT * g-cpan: Need to create ebuild for 'IO::Stty': IO-Stty- Running make for A/AU/AUSCHUTZ/IO-Stty-.02.tar.gz CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok Fetching with LWP: http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/A/AU/AUSCHUTZ/IO-Stty-.02.tar.gz Checksum for /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AU/AUSCHUTZ/IO-Stty-.02.tar.gz ok Scanning cache /root/.cpan/build for sizes IO-Stty-.02/ IO-Stty-.02/stty.txt IO-Stty-.02/stty.pl IO-Stty-.02/Makefile.PL IO-Stty-.02/Stty.pm IO-Stty-.02/README Removing previously used /root/.cpan/build/IO-Stty-.02 CPAN.pm: Going to build A/AU/AUSCHUTZ/IO-Stty-.02.tar.gz Writing Makefile for IO::Stty cp stty.pl blib/lib/IO/stty.pl cp Stty.pm blib/lib/IO/Stty.pm /usr/bin/make -- OK * g-cpan: perl-gcpan/IO-Stty- created in /tmp/perl-modules_23614 Calculating dependencies visible(): invalid cat/pkg-v: perl-gcpan/IO-Stty-.02 emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "perl-gcpan/IO-Stty-". host ~ # eix -c g-cpan [I] app-portage/g-cpan (0.13.02): g-cpan: generate and install CPAN modules using portage Found 1 matches host ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /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/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/gentoo/ http://213.186.33.37/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://213.186.33.37/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://213.186.33.38/gentoo-distfiles/" MAKEOPTS="-j6" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo crypt cscope cups curl dri eds emacs emboss encode esd ethereal expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gmp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal idn imagemagick imlib java javascript jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad mhash mikmod mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nsplugin ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline recode samba sdl slang spell sqlite ssl svg tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vim-with-x vorbis xface xine xml2 xprint xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Created attachment 79684 [details, diff] Hairy workaround this versioning weirdness mcummings, let me know if this possibly breaks something ;-)
OK, patch applied in svn, thanks yuval! Ariel, this should be corrected in the next release of g-cpan. Thanks for reporting the bug, ~mcummings
