| Summary: | CPAN calling ncftpget with http URL | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Sven <sven.koehler> |
| Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Perl team <perl> |
| Status: | RESOLVED NEEDINFO | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | tomka |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
This is the CPAN module itself trying to download http:// with ncftpget. g-cpan does not make this call. What version of the CPAN module are you using? Please provide your emerge --info. no response over a year, closed as NEEDINFO. |
Hi, I have just been using g-cpan for the first time, thus it downloaded some stuff from cpan. It was quite annoying, because on every download, g-cpan first called ncftpget with illegal parameters which shows ncftpget's help screen. If I exited that help screen, then g-cpan used wget which succeeded. So after all, g-cpan is usuable, but quite annoying. Anyway: fix this. Below is an example output of g-cpan 0.16.2. As you can see, it tries to fetch a HTTP url with ncftpget, which is very very wrong. Trying with "/usr/bin/ncftpget" to get "http://search.cpan.org/CPAN"/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz System call "cd /var/tmp/g-cpan/.cpan/sources/authors && /usr/bin/ncftpget ""http://search.cpan.org/CPAN"/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz" " returned status 8 (wstat 2048) Warning: expected file [/var/tmp/g-cpan/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz] doesn't exist Trying with "/usr/bin/wget -O -" to get "http://search.cpan.org/CPAN"/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: