Bug 282262

Summary:	g-cpan does not install modules
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Koaps <koaps>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	normal	CC:	mephinet
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Koaps 2009-08-22 02:14:50 UTC

I have been trying to get g-cpan to install modules but it will not do so.

Modules are being build in ~/.cpan but never get installed into a perl path.

It will not even update CPAN.pm



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. g-cpan -i Module::Name
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Comment 1 mephinet 2009-10-11 15:21:03 UTC

Are you running g-cpan as root? If so, ~/.cpan will only be used if /path/to/perl/CPAN/Config.pm does not exist - at least that's what the g-cpan man page says...

Comment 2 Noah Romer 2010-01-18 23:22:14 UTC

I too am seeing the failure to actually install the module files. It creates the ebuild (oddly, it creates it inside of an existing overlay), runs the build and says it has installed the files, but nothing actually gets installed.

Comment 3 Robin Johnson archtester

2010-02-12 23:27:48 UTC

please retest with g-cpan 0.16.0