Bug 119074

Summary:	g-cpan.pl -i Array::Virtual fails
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Erik Wasser <fuzz>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Michael Cummings (RETIRED) <mcummings>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	g-cpan
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Erik Wasser 2006-01-15 04:51:27 UTC

% g-cpan.pl -i Array::Virtual

CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 06:35:09 GMT
g-cpan.pl: Unable to coerce Contact-Author-Larry-Wall.-Author-of-Perl.-Busy-man.--larry-wall.org- into a portage dir name at /usr/bin/g-cpan.pl line 359.
 * g-cpan.pl: Couldn't turn 'Contact Author Larry Wall. Author of Perl. Busy man. <larry@wall.org>' into a directory name

 * g-cpan.pl: No ebuilds generated for emerge.

The install failed with CPAN-1.7601 and CPAN-1.83 with same error messages from above. B-(

Comment 1 Erik Wasser 2006-01-15 05:28:06 UTC

I'm sorry for adding this bug but I think it's not the fault of 'g-cpan.pl'.

% perl -MCPAN -e shell

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.83)
ReadLine support enabled

cpan> i /Virtual/
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 06:35:09 GMT
[...]
Distribution    X/XA/XANTUS/Filesys-Virtual-0.05.tar.gz
Distribution    X/XA/XANTUS/Filesys-Virtual-Plain-0.08.tar.gz
Module          Array::Virtual  (Contact Author Larry Wall. Author of Perl. Busy man. <larry@wall.org>)
Module          Business::OnlinePayment::VirtualNet (I/IV/IVAN/Business-OnlinePayment-VirtualNet-0.02.tar.gz)
Module          Class::Virtual  (M/MS/MSCHWERN/Class-Virtual-0.05.tar.gz)
[...]

The path of the Array::Virtual seems to be brocken in CPAN too... B-(

Comment 2 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-04-14 08:24:39 UTC

marking this invalid - nothing we can do if even cpan can't do the job on its own :)