Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <422219B7.9030800@familiehaase.de> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:04:23 +0100 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephan Petersen CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell;" fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header" References: <0MKpV6-1D4XMu3JLa-0001jh@mxeu1.kundenserver.de> <421F1B6A.10707@gtt-technologies.de> In-Reply-To: <421F1B6A.10707@gtt-technologies.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Stephan Petersen wrote: > Hi David, > >>> Please check the validity of the index file by comparing it to more >>> than one CPAN mirror. >> >> >> Have you tried this? E.g. configured CPAN to use another mirror and >> tried >> again? > > > yes, it's the same for every CPAN mirror I've tried. I've deleted CPAN's > config.pm and my .cpan directory several times now, it's the same after > every reconfiguration. > > Testing 02packages.details.txt.gz with gzip -t reports: > gzip: 02packages.details.txt.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated > > Same with 03modlist.data.gz. > > I'm using cygwin on W2k with default text file type "DOS", in case > that's relevant. Yes. Your .cpan directory needs to be mounted in binmode (Unix). From /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/perl-5.8.6.README: - The CPAN repository and build directory *must* reside in a path mounted in binmode: mount -s -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan mount -u -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan where username is your home path and cygwin / windows username. After mounting like this it should work with only few warnings or completely without problems, depending on your environment settings for the CYGWIN variable. HTH, Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/