Bug 64403

Summary:	g-cpan.pl fails on CPAN modules with .pm in filename
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Julie Brandon <julie-gentoo>
Component:	[OLD] Development	Assignee:	Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Patch to fix .pm breakage in g-cpan.pl

Description Julie Brandon 2004-09-17 07:25:36 UTC

Some module tarballs on CPAN do not follow the filename convention of modulename-version.tar.gz, instead calling themselves modulename.pm-version.tar.gz (for example the CGI module).

The regular expression in g-cpan's portage_dir sub fails to correctly convert these filenames to ebuild directories.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install CGI.pm from normal emerge commands
2. Run g-cpan.pl CGI::Application
3. Observe!
Actual Results:  
g-cpan.pl will always try to re-install CGI, as it can't find ebuild 
directory 'CGI.pm'



Expected Results:  
Detect that CGI is already installed.


Managed to cure the issue by simple modification of the regular expression in 
portage_dir sub to remove any trailing ".pm".

Comment 1 Peter Leonard 2004-11-16 16:56:15 UTC

Created attachment 44119 [details, diff]
Patch to fix .pm breakage in g-cpan.pl


Ran into the exact same problem myself, added the following patch to remove the

trailing .pm from CPAN module names.

Not heavily tested, but it allowed me to finally install CGI::Application,
which depended on CGI.pm.

Comment 2 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-14 08:56:48 UTC

Applied in next version of g-cpan (so next version of portage)