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CPAN + CPAN::Reporter Hints and Tips
(discuss firewalls and workarounds)
Getting perl-5.00505 to work with CPAN::Reporter
Some notes on necessary modules, patches, and workarounds, as of October 2007:
- Install perl5.005_05 from http://perl5005.googlecode.com/files/perl5.005_05-MAINT20070902.tar.gz
- A rough log of my module installation steps
sudo perl5.00505 -MCPAN -eshell install CPAN
Warning: something in this process sets the mode of /tmp to 0700! Restore the original mode as soon as possible!
perl5.00505 -MCPAN -eshell install TJENNESS/File-Temp-0.16.tar.gz
Setup a distroprefs file for File::Copy::Recursive, ot apply the RT patch manually. The distroprefs file may be found as DMUEY.File-Copy-Recursive.yml in the distroprefs subdir of the CPAN.pm distribution.
install File::Copy::Recursive install Term::ReadKey install Term::ReadLine::Perl install RGIERSIG/Expect-1.15.tar.gz install ExtUtils::MakeMaker install CPAN::Reporter
- Finally, the following modules are installed (version on my system in parenthesis)
- CPAN (1.92_51 or 1.9203)
- warnings::compat (0.04)
- File::Temp (0.18 + patch on RT); TJENNESS/File-Temp-0.16.tar.gz works without a patch
- Test::Reporter (1.36)
- Net::SMTP (2.31)
- Time::HiRes (1.9708)
- Pod::Parser (1.35)
- File::Copy::Recursive (0.35 + patch on RT); patch also on CPAN in ANDK/patches/File-Copy-Recursive-0.35-SREZIC-01.patch.gz
- CPAN::Reporter (0.99_15)
If podlators-2.0.5 is installed, then you have to remove .../lib/5.00505/Pod/Text.pm from the core perl library, so that the version from site_perl is used. This is necessary because a newer .../bin/pod2text is also installed with podlators and needs also the current module version.
After this you can also install Module::Build 0.2807 (not the latest version).
The latest usable versions of some popular modules for perl 5.00505:
- Tk 800.024
- MIME::Base64 2.23
- HTML::Parser 3.45
- Digest::MD5 2.33
- latest LWP has two test failures, but maybe these are rather harmless?
- Expect 1.15
- unfortunately neither YAML nor YAML::Syck pass tests with 5.00505, but one could use CPAN.pm distroprefs in the Data::Dumper format
Trying perl-5.00405 to work with CPAN::Reporter
makefile may require several modifications to compile perl. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/02/msg71859.html http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/02/msg71862.html http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/02/msg71860.html http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/02/msg71869.html
Run CPAN: path/bin/perl -MCPAN -e"shell"
install G/GB/GBARR/Scalar-List-Utils-1.14.tar.gz (unless this ticked is resolved: [http://rt.cpan.org//Ticket/Display.html?id=31041])
Following problem stopped my attempt: recursive dependencies and many versions that support 5.4 are only on backpan.