lib/constant.pm For "use constant"
lib/constant.t See if compile-time constants work
lib/CPAN.pm Interface to Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
+lib/CPAN/ChangeLog Changes of CPAN
+lib/CPAN/README README of CPAN
lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm Utility for creating CPAN config files
lib/CPAN/Nox.pm Runs CPAN while avoiding compiled extensions
lib/CPAN/t/loadme.t See if CPAN the module works
util.c Utility routines
util.h Dummy header
utils.lst Lists utilities bundled with Perl
+utils/cpan easily interact with CPAN from the command line
utils/c2ph.PL program to translate dbx stabs to perl
utils/dprofpp.PL Perl code profile post-processor
utils/enc2xs.PL Encode module generator
# -*- Mode: cperl; coding: utf-8; cperl-indent-level: 4 -*-
package CPAN;
-$VERSION = '1.61';
-# $Id: CPAN.pm,v 1.390 2002/05/07 10:04:58 k Exp $
+$VERSION = '1.64';
+# $Id: CPAN.pm,v 1.397 2003/02/06 09:44:40 k Exp $
# only used during development:
$Revision = "";
-# $Revision = "[".substr(q$Revision: 1.390 $, 10)."]";
+# $Revision = "[".substr(q$Revision: 1.397 $, 10)."]";
use Carp ();
use Config ();
$readline::rl_completion_function =
$readline::rl_completion_function = 'CPAN::Complete::cpl';
}
+ if (my $histfile = $CPAN::Config->{'histfile'}) {{
+ unless ($term->can("AddHistory")) {
+ $CPAN::Frontend->mywarn("Terminal does not support AddHistory.\n");
+ last;
+ }
+ my($fh) = FileHandle->new;
+ open $fh, "<$histfile" or last;
+ local $/ = "\n";
+ while (<$fh>) {
+ chomp;
+ $term->AddHistory($_);
+ }
+ close $fh;
+ }}
# $term->OUT is autoflushed anyway
my $odef = select STDERR;
$| = 1;
my($message) = @_;
my $i = 0;
my $ineval = 0;
- if (
- 0 && # disabled, try reload cpan with it
- $] > 5.004_60 # thereabouts
- ) {
- $ineval = $^S;
- } else {
- my($subroutine);
- while ((undef,undef,undef,$subroutine) = caller(++$i)) {
+ my($subroutine);
+ while ((undef,undef,undef,$subroutine) = caller(++$i)) {
$ineval = 1, last if
$subroutine eq '(eval)';
- }
}
return if $ineval && !$End;
- return unless defined $META->{LOCK}; # unsafe meta access, ok
- return unless -f $META->{LOCK}; # unsafe meta access, ok
- unlink $META->{LOCK}; # unsafe meta access, ok
+ return unless defined $META->{LOCK};
+ return unless -f $META->{LOCK};
+ $META->savehist;
+ unlink $META->{LOCK};
# require Carp;
# Carp::cluck("DEBUGGING");
$CPAN::Frontend->mywarn("Lockfile removed.\n");
}
+#-> sub CPAN::savehist
+sub savehist {
+ my($self) = @_;
+ my($histfile,$histsize);
+ unless ($histfile = $CPAN::Config->{'histfile'}){
+ $CPAN::Frontend->mywarn("No history written (no histfile specified).\n");
+ return;
+ }
+ $histsize = $CPAN::Config->{'histsize'} || 100;
+ unless ($CPAN::term->can("GetHistory")) {
+ $CPAN::Frontend->mywarn("Terminal does not support GetHistory.\n");
+ return;
+ }
+ my @h = $CPAN::term->GetHistory;
+ splice @h, 0, @h-$histsize if @h>$histsize;
+ my($fh) = FileHandle->new;
+ open $fh, ">$histfile" or mydie("Couldn't open >$histfile: $!");
+ local $\ = local $, = "\n";
+ print $fh @h;
+ close $fh;
+}
+
sub is_tested {
my($self,$what) = @_;
$self->{is_tested}{$what} = 1;
my @accept;
for (@arg) {
unless (/^[A-Z\-]+$/i) {
- $CPAN::Frontend->mywarn("ls command rejects argument $_: not an author");
+ $CPAN::Frontend->mywarn("ls command rejects argument $_: not an author\n");
next;
}
push @accept, uc $_;
sub paintdots_onreload {
my($ref) = shift;
sub {
- if ( $_[0] =~ /[Ss]ubroutine (\w+) redefined/ ) {
+ if ( $_[0] =~ /[Ss]ubroutine ([\w:]+) redefined/ ) {
my($subr) = $1;
++$$ref;
local($|) = 1;
$command ||= "";
$self->debug("self[$self]command[$command]arg[@arg]") if $CPAN::DEBUG;
if ($command =~ /cpan/i) {
- CPAN->debug("reloading the whole CPAN.pm") if $CPAN::DEBUG;
- my $fh = FileHandle->new($INC{'CPAN.pm'});
- local($/);
- my $redef = 0;
- local($SIG{__WARN__}) = paintdots_onreload(\$redef);
- eval <$fh>;
- warn $@ if $@;
- $CPAN::Frontend->myprint("\n$redef subroutines redefined\n");
+ for my $f (qw(CPAN.pm CPAN/FirstTime.pm)) {
+ next unless $INC{$f};
+ CPAN->debug("reloading the whole $f") if $CPAN::DEBUG;
+ my $fh = FileHandle->new($INC{$f});
+ local($/);
+ my $redef = 0;
+ local($SIG{__WARN__}) = paintdots_onreload(\$redef);
+ eval <$fh>;
+ warn $@ if $@;
+ $CPAN::Frontend->myprint("\n$redef subroutines redefined\n");
+ }
} elsif ($command =~ /index/) {
CPAN::Index->force_reload;
} else {
print color($ornament), sprintf($sprintf,$line), color("reset"), $nl;
}
} else {
+ # chomp $what;
+ # $what .= "\n"; # newlines unless $PRINT_ORNAMENTING
print $what;
}
}
push @qcopy, $obj;
} elsif ($CPAN::META->exists('CPAN::Author',$s)) {
$obj = $CPAN::META->instance('CPAN::Author',$s);
- if ($meth eq "dump") {
- $obj->dump;
+ if ($meth =~ /^(dump|ls)$/) {
+ $obj->$meth();
} else {
$CPAN::Frontend->myprint(
join "",
CPAN::LWP::UserAgent->config;
eval {$Ua = CPAN::LWP::UserAgent->new;}; # Why is has_usable still not fit enough?
if ($@) {
- $CPAN::Frontend->mywarn("CPAN::LWP::UserAgent->new dies with $@")
+ $CPAN::Frontend->mywarn("CPAN::LWP::UserAgent->new dies with $@\n")
if $CPAN::DEBUG;
} else {
my($var);
CPAN::LWP::UserAgent->config;
eval { $Ua = CPAN::LWP::UserAgent->new; };
if ($@) {
- $CPAN::Frontend->mywarn("CPAN::LWP::UserAgent->new dies with $@");
+ $CPAN::Frontend->mywarn("CPAN::LWP::UserAgent->new dies with $@\n");
}
}
my $res = $Ua->mirror($url, $aslocal);
@dialog,
"lcd $aslocal_dir",
"cd /",
- map("cd $_", split "/", $dir), # RFC 1738
+ map("cd $_", split /\//, $dir), # RFC 1738
"bin",
"get $getfile $targetfile",
"quit"
$cache->{PROTOCOL} = PROTOCOL;
$CPAN::Frontend->myprint("Going to write $metadata_file\n");
eval { Storable::nstore($cache, $metadata_file) };
- $CPAN::Frontend->mywarn($@) if $@;
+ $CPAN::Frontend->mywarn($@) if $@; # ?? missing "\n" after $@ in mywarn ??
}
#-> sub CPAN::Index::read_metadata_cache ;
$CPAN::Frontend->myprint("Going to read $metadata_file\n");
my $cache;
eval { $cache = Storable::retrieve($metadata_file) };
- $CPAN::Frontend->mywarn($@) if $@;
+ $CPAN::Frontend->mywarn($@) if $@; # ?? missing "\n" after $@ in mywarn ??
if (!$cache || ref $cache ne 'HASH'){
$LAST_TIME = 0;
return;
if (exists $cache->{PROTOCOL}) {
if (PROTOCOL > $cache->{PROTOCOL}) {
$CPAN::Frontend->mywarn(sprintf("Ignoring Metadata cache written ".
- "with protocol v%s, requiring v%s",
+ "with protocol v%s, requiring v%s\n",
$cache->{PROTOCOL},
PROTOCOL)
);
}
} else {
$CPAN::Frontend->mywarn("Ignoring Metadata cache written ".
- "with protocol v1.0");
+ "with protocol v1.0\n");
return;
}
my $clcnt = 0;
) {
return $s if $s =~ m:^N/A|^Contact Author: ;
$s =~ s|^(.)(.)([^/]*/)(.+)$|$1/$1$2/$1$2$3$4| or
- $CPAN::Frontend->mywarn("Strange distribution name [$s]");
+ $CPAN::Frontend->mywarn("Strange distribution name [$s]\n");
CPAN->debug("s[$s]") if $CPAN::DEBUG;
}
$s;
$CPAN::Config->{keep_source_where},
"authors",
"id",
- split("/",$self->id)
+ split(/\//,$self->id)
);
$self->debug("Doing localize") if $CPAN::DEBUG;
my $userid = $self->cpan_userid;
- my $cvs_dir = (split '/', $dir)[-1];
+ my $cvs_dir = (split /\//, $dir)[-1];
$cvs_dir =~ s/-\d+[^-]+(?!\n)\Z//;
my $cvs_root =
$CPAN::Config->{cvsroot} || $ENV{CVSROOT};
$CPAN::Config->{keep_source_where},
"authors",
"id",
- split("/","$sans.readme"),
+ split(/\//,"$sans.readme"),
);
$self->debug("Doing localize") if $CPAN::DEBUG;
$local_file = CPAN::FTP->localize("authors/id/$sans.readme",
$CPAN::Frontend->myprint(join "", map {" $_\n"} @e) and return if @e;
}
my($lc_want,$lc_file,@local,$basename);
- @local = split("/",$self->id);
+ @local = split(/\//,$self->id);
pop @local;
push @local, "CHECKSUMS";
$lc_want =
# And if they say v1.2, then the old perl takes it as "v12"
- $CPAN::Frontend->mywarn("Suspicious version string seen [$n]");
+ $CPAN::Frontend->mywarn("Suspicious version string seen [$n]\n");
return $n;
}
my $better = sprintf "v%vd", $n;
autobundle, clean, install, make, recompile, test
+=head1 STATUS
+
+This module will eventually be replaced by CPANPLUS. CPANPLUS is kind
+of a modern rewrite from ground up with greater extensibility and more
+features but no full compatibility. If you're new to CPAN.pm, you
+probably should investigate if CPANPLUS is the better choice for you.
+If you're already used to CPAN.pm you're welcome to continue using it,
+if you accept that its development is mostly (though not completely)
+stalled.
+
=head1 DESCRIPTION
The CPAN module is designed to automate the make and install of perl
dontload_hash anonymous hash: modules in the keys will not be
loaded by the CPAN::has_inst() routine
gzip location of external program gzip
+ histfile file to maintain history between sessions
+ histsize maximum number of lines to keep in histfile
inactivity_timeout breaks interactive Makefile.PLs after this
many seconds inactivity. Set to 0 to never break.
inhibit_startup_message
hide a complete network behind one IP address. With this firewall no
special compiling is needed as you can access hosts directly.
+For accessing ftp servers behind such firewalls you may need to set
+the environment variable C<FTP_PASSIVE> to a true value, e.g.
+
+ env FTP_PASSIVE=1 perl -MCPAN -eshell
+
+or
+
+ perl -MCPAN -e '$ENV{FTP_PASSIVE} = 1; shell'
+
+
=back
=back
--- /dev/null
+2003-02-05 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * lib/CPAN.pm (savehist, CPAN::shell): new config variables
+ histfile and histsize control saving and retrieving of history.
+
+ * Explain the status of CPAN.pm vs. CPANPLUS.pm in the POD
+
+ * Documentation: mention FTP_PASSIVE; courtesy Peter Valdemar
+ Mørch
+
+2002-11-22 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * correct all split commands to use a regex instead of a string.
+ Thanks to Rafael Garcia-Suarez for detecting the abuse.
+
+2002-11-17 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * BUNDLE/Test/{Builder,More}.pm: Strip POD from the two bundled
+ modules.
+
+2002-11-15 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Makefile.PL: Switch to CPAN::MakeMaker for this one experimental
+ release. The implications of CPAN::MakeMaker are yet to be
+ evaluated. Here I use the "True Bundle" feature to add Test::More
+ and Test::Builder and remove the dependency on them.
+
+2002-11-12 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm (read_mirrored_by): Bill Pollock made me
+ aware about simple mistakes that can be avoided in the URL
+ selection dialogue (entering URL strings instead of numbers,
+ entering leading or trailing whitespace). With a few simple tweaks
+ these should be avoided in the future.
+
+2002-10-20 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * lib/CPAN.pm: the last few patches also fixed accidentally some
+ "redefined" warnings during "reload cpan".
+
+2002-09-30 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Roland Bauer sent me a patch that carefully appended a trailing
+ newline to a couple of "mywarn" messages that came without it.
+
+ * CPAN::FirstTime::display_some: Change the displayed dialogue to
+ make clear that SPACE ENTER is the trick to page through results.
+ Correct some indenting and trailing whitespace. Remove some unused
+ variables.
+
+ * print_ornamented: Newline fix for various Windows systems by
+ Roland Bauer
+
+2002-09-03 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * CPAN::FirstTime::init: Catch non-absolute path in cpan_home.
+
+2002-08-30 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * New version of the cpan script by brian d foy.
+
+2002-07-28 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Releasing as 1.62.
+
+ * cpan: beefed-up cpan script courtesy brian d foy.
+
+ * Makefile.PL: deactivate PREREQ_PM for File::Spec in case we are
+ running under 5.6.0, otherwise 5.6.0's CPAN.pm would download
+ 5.8.0 just for File::Spec.
+
+2002-05-07 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Releasing as 1.61.
+
+ * The default WAIT server has got a new domain name:
+ ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
+
+ * Protecting against not existing $META->{is_tested} element.
+
+2002-04-21 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Repackaging, no changes in the code. The reason is that
+ search.cpan.org could not grok the format of my ChangeLog file
+ which mixed POD and non-POD. Now ChangeLog is POD-free and old
+ Changes are in Changes.old. Going to package as 1.60b.
+
+2002-04-19 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Change the quoting in system command for Windows systems. Thanks
+ to Alessandro Forghieri <alf at orion dot it> for the report.
+
+ * merge with bleadperl
+
+2001-06-16 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Typo Frontent->Frontend in three places. Thanks to Rich Williams
+ for spotting.
+
+2001-05-28 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * manpage_headline: fixed the NAME parsing regular expression to
+ ignore headlines that just start with NAME. Thanks to Jost Krieger
+ for spotting.
+
+2001-05-22 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * CPAN::Bundle::look: disable the look command on bundles. Till
+ now it meant to recursively look into all members. This could be
+ time-consuming and even hard to interrupt. As I know nothing else
+ one could expect from look(Bundle), I decided to disable it
+ completely.
+
+2001-04-xx Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Do not remember exact date: Applied a patch by Gisle Aas to
+ replace MD5 by Digest::MD5.
+
+2001-02-09 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Releasing as 1.59_54.
+
+ * CPAN::Tarzip::TIEHANDLE: Applied a patch by Robin Barker
+ <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk> about a wrong error message ("Could pipe"
+ instead of "Could not pipe")
+
+2001-02-06 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * CPAN::Index::rd_modpacks: Add a stalenes warning if the index
+ file is older than 30 days. Thanks to "tanbin"
+ <tiger40490@yahoo.com> for the report.
+
+ * To improve the protection against stale mirrors, add a global
+ for $CPAN::Index::DATE_OF_02 to keep track of the currently used
+ index. This is also stored in the cache. It will be printed as a
+ reminder whenever a fetch fails and whenever the metadata are
+ retrieved from the index file or via Storable.
+
+2001-01-02 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * CPAN::Author::as_glimpse): added email address
+
+ * CPAN::Shell::a: uppercasing any argument broke experimental
+ advanced query. Made conditional on the existence of an equal sign
+ now.
+
+2000-12-31 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * POD: add a description of the ls command.
+
+ * Improve documentation of support for authenticated proxies.
+
+ * CPAN::Bundle::contains: Bail out if there is no inst_file and
+ cpan_file eq "N/A". Old code would have tried to download N/A.
+
+2000-12-27 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * normalize: Fix bug with "Strange distribution name" if it is
+ "Contact Author..."
+
+2000-12-26 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * CPAN::LWP::UserAgent: new class to customize proxy
+ authentication. Thanks to David C Worenklein for a working
+ implementation that I could use as a basis.
+
+2000-12-19 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * manpage: Added a pointer to the Japanese translation.
+
+2000-12-13 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * FAQ: While working on the FAQ mirroring item, I discovered that
+ we need a mirror command because "get" unwraps the tarfiles as a
+ side effect, which is not nice. Mirror() will do nothing if source
+ is a "file:" URL. It will probably understand force to override
+ that. It will copy to ~/.cpan/sources but leave the file unopened
+ and untouched. Backed out the FAQ item until we have that fixed.
+
+2000-12-11 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * CPAN::Distribution::normalize: Did not work correctly for
+ authors that have subdirectories in their CPAN directory. Was
+ counting slashes, am now also checking against a regexp.
+
+ * cpl: make completion work with "get".
+
+ * CPAN::Shell::ls: Reject arguments not matching [A-Z\-] to
+ prevent /.../ expansion which neither worked nor is considered
+ useful.
+
+ * CPAN::Shell::h: include ls command
+
+ * variable naming: rename $date_of_03 and $last_time to uppercase
+ counterparts. Globals must stand out visually.
+
+ * FAQ: Adding "How do I set up a local CPAN mirror that does not
+ contain things I'm not interested in?". Thanks to Paul Moore for
+ asking the question (but see above, the article was removed for
+ further consideration on 2000-12-13)
+
+ * CPAN::Author::id: add a sanity check, first letter must be A-Z
+
+2000-12-10 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * CPAN::Distribution::look: Protect against empty $dir and use
+ safe_chdir instead of chdir.
+
+2000-12-01 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * get: finished the treatment of the NFS racing condition that
+ motivated many of the recent changes in get(). Thanks for
+ reporting and heavy testing to Steffen Beyer.
+
+ * Releasing as 1.59_51.
+
+ * normalize: protect against the case when normalize is called
+ without argument.
+
+ * Thanks to Jeremy Wadsack who read the first sketch of the
+ documentation of the programmer's interface and provided helpful
+ comments and additions.
+
+ * Declaring 1.58_93 as 1.59 and releasing as such to have a stable
+ baseline again. 1.58_93 had been integrated into the development
+ track of 5.7.0 with patch 7737 on 2000/11/18.
+
+2000-11-30 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * CPAN::Distribution::get: removed a special case that was never
+ documented and apparently never worked: when keep_source_where
+ matched /^no/, we tried to delete the source again after an
+ installation.
+
+ * POD: documented expandany
+
+ * CPAN::Bundle::inst_file: now takes the newest Bundle definition
+ file it finds within @INC and ~/.cpan/Bundle/. Sets INST_VERSION
+ as side effect. CPAN::Bundle::inst_version calls inst_file.
+
+ * CPAN::Distribution::uptodate: New method.
+
+ * CPAN::Bundle::uptodate: New method. Thanks to Jeremy Wadsack who
+ discovered that an uptodate method for Bundles was missing.
+
+ * POD: Wrote at least the headlines for all public methods to make
+ a second step at opening CPAN.pm for programmers.
+
+2000-11-28 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * CPAN::Admin (CPAN::Shell::register): opened for XML, Tk, and Apache.
+
+ * CPAN::Author::ls: include the author's ID in the listing to make
+ copy&paste easier.
+
+ * normalize: Allowed the special case "N/A ..." for bundles.
+
+ * CPAN::Complete::cpl: made completion for bundles work on install
+ et al.
+
+ * localize: Encountered a C<Can't locate object method "new" via
+ package "LWP::UserAgent"> although has_usable returned true. Could
+ not find out the reason, so I wrapped it into an eval.
+
+2000-11-23 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Sending as 1.58_94 to Steffen, no release to avoid confusion.
+
+ * Due to a bug report by Steffen Beyer I added a whole lot of
+ debugging statements to get in the hope, I can find a reason why
+ his copy misbehaves under 5.00503.
+
+ * CPAN::Distribution::get: Fixed indenting in get(). Added $! to
+ the error messages there.
+
+
+2000-11-22 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * CPAN::FirstTime::conf_sites: Added the option to download a
+ MIRRORED.BY immediately even if the local one seems fresh enough.
+
+ * POD: Lots of fixes spotted by John P. Linderman
+
+2000-11-15 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Fixed an incompatibility with 5.00503 discovered by Ask B.
+ Hansen.
+
+2000-11-14 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm: MyConfig/Config buglet during
+ site-picking and more verbosity for selecting good arguments for
+ make (Thanks to Larry Virden for the report)
+
+ * print_ornamented: Made shell output ornamenting dependent on a
+ global variable $CPAN::Shell::PRINT_ORNAMENTING. It is and will
+ stay a rarely used feature, so a global to turn it on and off
+ seems appropriate. For the record: this does not do anything but
+ colorize STDOUT and STDERR differently for debugging if all
+ messages are wrapped correctly.
+
+2000-11-11 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Admin: Made the machine name of PAUSE a constant.
+
+2000-11-10 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * rematein: Enable dump of Author objects (was the useless silly
+ message)
+
+ * Two (temporary) global variables introduced:
+ $CPAN::Tarzip::BUGHUNTING enables naughty code that may help track
+ some bugs in Archive::Tar (already reported to SRZ). And
+ $CPAN::Shell::ADVANCED_QUERY turns on a form of the query like
+ C<m userid=RFOLEY> or
+ C<m userid=~FOL> or
+ C<d cpan_userid=RFOLEY>
+
+ But this syntax is highly experimental and WILL change, do not
+ rely on it.
+
+2000-11-09 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * CPAN::Module::userid: change to mean either CPAN_USERID from
+ 02modules or userid from 03modlist. Up to now it only meant the
+ latter. As both are always identical, we could save some space by
+ renaming CPAN_USERID to userid. --> Todo
+
+2000-11-08 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * CPAN::Complete::cpl: Make completion work for locally installed
+ bundles on the first try, not just the second.
+
+ * CPAN::Complete::cpl: Make completion for authors work even when
+ lowercase was typed in so far.
+
+ * releasing as 1.58_90
+
+ * CPAN::Module::name: was an alias for &cpan_file. That made the m
+ command slow without any visible advantage. C<m /html-tree/> used
+ to find the modules in the distribution HTML-Tree-XXX and now
+ doesn't anymore. But this is misfeature as we have both <d
+ /html-tree/> and <i /html-tree/> for that.
+
+ * cpan_file: Fixed a bug that could instantiate an empty Author
+ object.
+
+2000-11-07 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * format_result: Add a summary line at the end how many items in
+ the set.
+
+ * print_ornamented: Moved the special-case for fullname to
+ print-ornamented to be prepared for other UTF-8 fields besides
+ fullname (Try with C<m Sub::Curry>)
+
+2000-11-06 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Released as 1.58_57
+
+ * CPAN::Shell::ls: I believe, ls is now fully functional, but it
+ still needs some work on PAUSE to be perceived as bugfree. Thu
+ left undocumented (but it's already useful as it is, even
+ completion works; if you're interested: give it only authors as
+ arguments).
+
+ * CPAN::shell: Detect parse errors when Text::ParseWords fails
+ without die()ing, like in C<d Documentum's>.
+
+ * CPAN::Distribution::normalize: Try A/AC/ACALPINI/foo when the
+ user says ACALPINI/foo. I have only tested for the C<rematein>
+ family and the C<d> command so far. Need to find all places where
+ the normalization is needed.
+
+ * CPAN::Module::as_string: improved manpage parsing on files with
+ CRLF in them.
+
+2000-11-04 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Releasing as 1.58_56.
+
+ * CPAN::Shell::local_bundles: Did not discover local bundle files
+ if they were nested. Thanks to Ask B. Hansen for the report.
+
+ * CPAN::Shell::ls: Started work on an ls command. Left
+ undocumented because not yet finished. Needs mtime in CHECKSUMS
+ file.
+
+ * localize: Improved messaging when we try to download a
+ compressed file instead of an uncompressed.
+
+ * o conf: Made C<o conf -Module> to mean remove Module debugging
+ from the current debugging settings. Handy when you turn on "all"
+ and discover that Module is too noisy.
+
+2000-10-29 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * FAQ about readline: Thanks to Joseph Kewish
+ <jkewish@thedrag.com> who knew the correct answer.
+
+2000-10-28 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * untar: again change preference to tag+gzip to hunt down a bug in
+ Archive::Tar.
+
+ * Admin's register: Forgive when URI::Escape isn't installed yet
+ and let it be installed while we're running.
+
+2000-10-27 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Releasing snapshot as 1.58_55.
+
+ * CPAN::Admin::register: do not run a get if the command line
+ already contains more than one arguments.
+
+2000-10-26 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Added documentation for CPAN::shell and term_is_latin.
+
+ * CPAN::Author::fullname: convert to latin1 if
+ $CPAN::Config->{term_is_latin} is set to true.
+
+ * CPAN::Module::as_glimpse and CPAN::Shell::_u_r_common: enabled
+ coloring of module names that are already registered in the module
+ list. This feature bloat will have to go away in a future version,
+ but for a while it might prove useful. The diffs between RCS 1.361
+ and 1.362 should then be applied reversed. The feature bloat is
+ only visible when the global $CPAN::Shell::COLOR_REGISTERED is
+ set, no visible changes are made otherwise.
+
+ * Added CPAN::Admin in an extra file. The subclass is for CPAN
+ admins only. For others it is an instructive programming example.
+ I consider the programming environment still alpha and need
+ feedback on its usefulness. E.g. I consider it ugly that
+ CPAN::Shell::expand and CPAN::instance have such a B<slightly>
+ different interface. I hate it that testing C<$m->{RO}{something}>
+ creates the RO slot. I'm unsure what one could make easier when
+ expand() returns a list of objects instead of a single object.
+
+ * cpl: made CPAN::Complete::cpl more flexible by assigning all
+ commands to the global @COMMANDS and offering a fallback for the
+ second word to modules and bundles when an unknown command is
+ entered. CPAN::Admin takes advantage of this feature.
+
+2000-10-25 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * shell: The C<$term||=> change of 2000-10-20 broke the
+ re-detection of ReadLine for fresh installations. Fixed that again
+ so that both ways are possible: disposing the Stub interface and
+ re-using an interface that is better than Stub.
+
+2000-10-21 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * CPAN::shell: Now takes two arguments, one is the prompt, the
+ second is the default initial command line.
+
+ * Released this snapshot as 1.58_51
+
+ * hosthard: applied a patch by Michael Dean
+ <sysmwd@blackhole.detir.qld.gov.au> to support wget.
+
+2000-10-20 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * CPAN::Distribution::containsmods: Did not return a value, now
+ returns the contained modules
+
+ * CPAN::Distribution::get: chdir back to initial CWD
+
+ * CPAN::anycwd: new routine replaces all occurrences of replicated
+ two-line code
+
+ * shell: chdir-ing back to initial directory at end of CPAN::shell
+
+ * CPAN::exists: added a config loader because everything depends
+ on it. Will have to identify other places that need it.
+
+ * shell: Assignment of a readline interface to term now is a "||="
+ rather than a "=" in case somebody calls shell multiple times.
+
+ * Moved the call to read_metadata_cache from shell to
+ CPAN::Index::reload so that (1) it isn't called so early and (2)
+ programmers can enjoy its availability too.
+
+ * CPAN::Config::commit: die when you can't write the config file.
+ We did only warn, but it is more frustrating to repeatedly get the
+ same questions asked than to get at least a good error message.
+ Will have to catch some error conditions earlier.
+
+2000-10-18 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * CPAN::Module::as_string: up to now the MANPAGE attribute was
+ only generated for installed modules. Now we try to read the
+ manpage headline if a get has been issued so that a build_dir
+ exists. This is helpful for exploring CPAN without installing
+ anything, e.g. when you have no or only slow access to a WAIT
+ server.
+
+ * Releasing as 1.58
+
+2000-10-15 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * FAQ: two new FAQ items added: autobundle and readline
+
+2000-10-07 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Setting Version to 1.57_68RC
+
+ * POD: numbering FAQ items; rewording of FAQ item 6 about bundles;
+ introduced FAQ item 7 about CPAN::Site.
+
+ * CPAN::FirstTime::init: Making cache_metadata default to 1.
+
+ * missing_config_data: Making cache_metadata a reason to rerun
+ configuration.
+
+2000-09-29 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * CPAN::DESTROY: Protected the call to $gz->gzclose with an if
+ defined $gz. Thanks to abigail for reporting the bug, apologies
+ that I'm also not sure if this fixes the cause, or just the
+ sympton.
+
+ * has_inst: 2nd warning for not having installed Net::FTP
+ silencified with a global (Thanks to Anno Siegel for the
+ suggestion)
+
+2000-09-16 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * 1.57_67 is a release candidate.
+
+ * FirstTime: rewording of the intro for the cache_metadata feature
+ from experimental to beta. Leaving default to off. As it is still
+ turned off, I do not add the feature to the "necessary" features
+ in sub missing_config_data. Will do so when default changes to on.
+
+ * untar: for running the pipe, the external programs gzip and tar
+ are OK to use but for a pure uncompress I prefer to use our own
+ method gunzip for maximum code reuse (fallback to external gzip is
+ there anyway) and less use of system().
+
+ * hosthard: after Jost has approved that the code now is much more
+ defensive against the install-an-inexistent-distribution errors,
+ now the funkyftp programs are disallowed to process C<file> URLs
+ at all.
+
+2000-09-12 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * get: userid "anon" if cpan_userid does not provide one.
+
+ * 1.57_66 for the sole purpose of testing the error provoked by
+ the old lynx version. Next version will disable lynx for file:
+ URLs and thus will doubly guard against the bug.
+
+ * untar and gtest: enabled gtest with Compress::Zlib again, now
+ with a test if the file size and buffer size are equal. In that
+ case gtest returns false. untar now also uses gtest ahead of
+ decompression to catch the error condition provoked by
+
+ DB<5> x system "echo -n | /bin/tar xvf -"
+ 0 0
+
+ The fact that tar returns TRUE on zero byte input could lead us to
+ believe that we were doing a successful untar while in reality we
+ had an uncompressed file that was completely bogus.
+
+ Once again a big thank you to Jost Krieger who discovered this bug
+ by feeding an inexistent distribution name to install() while he
+ had an old version of lynx installed that did not discover the
+ mistake and created the file as textfile containing an error
+ message.
+
+2000-09-11 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * gtest: disabled Compress::Zlib because it seems to offer no
+ method to test if a file is compressed or not. If a file was not
+ compressed, it happily treats it "as expected" setting no error. I
+ was so sure that I tested this when it was introduced. We really
+ need a test harness.
+
+ * get: New instance variable had_no_makefile_pl
+
+ * get: New instance variable was_uncompressed to later use it for
+ heuristics if we're on the wrong track.
+
+ * If we write a Makefile.PL on our own, we now choose the NAME
+ parameter more carefully.
+
+ * Ask user if he wants to proceed if the CHECKSUM file does not
+ contain data about a downloded file.
+
+ * hosthard: Skip "file" URLs
+
+ * hosthardest: eliminated unused code for is_reachable
+
+2000-09-10 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Tarball 1.57_65 (63 and 64 were not uploaded because I found
+ errors during testing)
+
+ * Bundle::inst_file: cleanup
+
+ * unsat_prereq: decision to accept any installed version if
+ PREREQ_PM says 0 or "undef" or undef.
+
+ * follow_prereqs: broke this new method out of make because I want
+ to repeat it in test. Repeating the check in test has the
+ advantage that the user is reminded in time that still some prereq
+ is missing.
+
+2000-09-09 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Tarball 1.57_63.
+
+ * rd_modpacks: do not let bundles be both bundles and modules
+ anymore. Seems like memory bloat without any value.
+
+ * reload: $last_time was set too early to a new value. It seems to
+ have never manifested itself as a bug, but we now do the more
+ correct localizing of the newer timestamp until we have read all
+ three index files and then set the timestamp globally.
+
+ * reload and read_metadata_cache: extend the index protocol to
+ memory so that whenever a new protocol is introduced, the index
+ gets loaded into memory asap.
+
+ * instance vs set: moved the code that creates the RO pointer from
+ instance to set and commenting the set method to have this side
+ effect. This was the cause for a very difficult to diagnose bug.
+ Thanks to Jost Krieger for discovering wrong content in Metadata.
+
+2000-09-08 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * read_metadata_cache: More sanity checks.
+
+ * _u_r_common: Added informational message about the number of
+ matches in the database.
+
+ * checklock: Checking $fh for undef. Thanks to
+ Slaven Rezic for the report.
+
+2000-09-06 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * lib/CPAN.pm (expandany): Distributions always had the habit to
+ spring into existence, that means, people could say
+
+ test A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.57_60.tar.gz
+
+ and got that thing downloaded if it existed on CPAN. Jost
+ discovered this was broken. Fixed by replacing an expand() by
+ instance() for distributions in expandany.
+
+2000-09-05 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * undelay: After a jumpqueue we must not continue because success
+ is unlikely. We set $self->{later} and the queuerunner calls
+ undelay.
+
+ * Bundle::inst_file: reviewed the code after Jost pointed out that
+ it was suspectly formatted. Re-enabled the newer, better code that
+ allows for multi-level Bundle package names.
+
+ * Distribution::install: improved wording for the case where make
+ failed (Thanks To Jost Krieger for spotting)
+
+ * Bundle::as_string: CONTAINS was rendered as ARRAY(...)
+
+ * expandany: added a scan for bundles as one could not install
+ bundles immediately after program start but only after a "b"
+ command (Thanks to Jost Krieger for the bugreport)
+
+ * color_cmd_tmps: protection against deep recursion with a panic
+ message.
+
+ * expand: temporary introduced the "=" hack to eval code on the
+ command line repeatedly. Now disabled again to prevent surprise.
+ But as a reminder, I did run this command successfully before
+ disabling:
+
+ cpan> m '=length($self->id)==16 && substr($self->id,12,2) eq "::"'
+ Module Bundle::HTML::EP (N/A)
+ Module Games::Cards::Tk (A/AK/AKARGER/Games-Cards-1.45.tar.gz)
+ Module Games::Worms::PS (S/SB/SBURKE/Games-Worms-0.61.tar.gz)
+ Module Games::Worms::Tk (S/SB/SBURKE/Games-Worms-0.61.tar.gz)
+ Module Lingua::Stem::En (S/SN/SNOWHARE/Lingua-Stem-0.40.tar.gz)
+
+ * color_cmd_tmps: we're now coloring all objects when they enter
+ the queue and we uncolor them when a command is finished. We just
+ need a hook now to check if we really uncolored them all. What
+ should the hook be? i ="$self->{incommandcolor}>0"
+
+2000-09-04 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * color_cmd_tmps: rename the method reset_badtestcnt to
+ color_cmd_tmps because it turns out to be the right place to reset
+ sponsored_mods and maybe install_failed too, and if we mark them
+ as dirty when used and as clean when reset, we might even succeed
+ to have a tidy kitchen.
+
+ * untar: backed out the preference towards Archive::Tar. It seems
+ from reports I get and one hiccups I witnessed myself that
+ Archive::Tar is not stable (sorry, no bugreport available). With
+ the current state of CPAN.pm we cannot afford the additional risk
+ from an external source.
+
+ * Queue: backed out the change from string based queue to object
+ based queue. I made some mistakes during transition and everything
+ stopped working. This seemed the easiest way out.
+
+ * reset_testcnt: introduced attribute badtestcnt for Modules,
+ Bundles, and Distributions and method reset_badtestcnt to get rid
+ of that counter before and after a command. During the command we
+ inc the counter on unsuccessful make test commands. But we do not
+ reset unknown dependencies. During 'make test' we up this counter
+ if test fails and consequently do not repeat the testing. This
+ should now safe much time if, say LWP tests fail and we have all
+ of WWW::RobotRules, File::Listing, LWP, HTTP::Negotiate,
+ HTML::Form, and LWP::Simple in a Bundle or reach the stuff via a
+ dependency. Former versions would have repeated the testing ad
+ nauseam. We now refuse on the second occasion and the user may be
+ required to run something to finish building.
+
+ * prereq_pm: split of method needs_prereq into unsat_prereq_pm and
+ prereq_pm and letting the prereq_pm be stored in the object
+
+ * cpl: added readme and dump to the list of supported keywords for
+ completion
+
+ * POD: documented the dump command in the debugging section of the
+ manpage. Simplified the debugging section.
+
+ * changed queue to work with objects instead of object IDs
+ making it more natural to deal with them. Having the string
+ representation there bit me several times in the past. At the same
+ time shuffled some code from the queue-running loop to the
+ queue-constructing loop thus catching errors before starting to
+ work on the queue.
+
+ * renamed dotdot_onreload to paintdots_onreload. Changed $redef
+ from global to lexical.
+
+ * lib/CPAN.pm (dump): made dump more userfriendly by adding a
+ print statement, it is now a regular command to type C<dump
+ Net::FTP>. But still left undocumented to augment comments from
+ those who read the ChangeLog (That's you:)
+
+2000-09-03 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * heavy re-structuring of Metadata in memory with high potential
+ for breakage. All metadata are now split into a readonly and a
+ read-write part and all objects have a pointer to the readonly
+ part. The Metadata cache logic stores only the readonly part, so
+ that no session-specific data will ever be found again in a future
+ session.
+
+ * AUTOLOAD: removed the autoloader support that was never used and
+ seems not very intersting anymore with today's hardware. RCS: 1.325
+
+ * removed all the %vd comments.
+
+ * shortened all lines longer than 80 characters to make future
+ patches better readable.
+
+ * read_metadata_cache: Introduced protocol version number for
+ Metadata.
+
+ * removing a 'no strict' around the shell loop I do not recall the
+ reason of.
+
+ * lib/CPAN.pm: Folding two occurrances of use vars into one.
+
+2000-09-01 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * lib/CPAN.pm (readable): After release spotted en error in the
+ FAQ about not being root. Improved it a little, added another FAQ
+ and gave it the VERSION 1.57_57.
+
+ * Releasing as 1.57_56 as candidate for 5.7.0
+
+ * missing_config_data and FirstTime: declared cache_metadata as
+ not yet stable enough to turn it on per default. The reason is
+ that I want the official external data from CPAN and the generated
+ internal data from the current session clearly separated and this
+ will take another working session that I cannot provide before
+ 5.7.0.
+
+2000-08-31 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * POD: Added two FAQs about not being root and about the look
+ command.
+
+ * Replaced all backticks that were misused in documentation or
+ dialogs as pretty left quotes by single ticks. I think it was
+ Markus Kuhn who said so.
+
+ * float2vv: added conversion of float to visible v-string for
+ comparisons. Added some tests too.
+
+ * MD5_check_file: Now die instead of print when the MD5 checksum
+ mismatches.
+
+ * untar and unzip: preferring Archive::Tar now that it works
+ again. Adding extra security check by testing for absolute path
+ and updir.
+
+ * unzip_me: made it symmetrical to untar_me and added a few Signal
+ checkers to both.
+
+ * hosteasy/hard/hardest: now checking for $Signal and giving up in
+ several places within the download loop. Thanks for the suggestion
+ to Johan Vromans. I'd be ready to ask a question where to continue
+ but it turns out to need careful wording because the loop is
+ deeply nested: method, host, and within the methods LWP/Net::FTP
+ or lynx/ncftpget/ncftp. Simple wording might cause more grief than
+ just giving up.
+
+ * localize: now setting $ENV for proxies if config has values for
+ them. Thanks for the bugreport to Johan Vromans.
+
+ * checklock: changed comment in the code
+
+2000-08-30 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Applied 2 doc patches by Elaine and Jarkko.
+
+ * Call to force now wants a first argument and this was not there.
+ This was the reason why force DIST didn't work. Thanks to Jost
+ Krieger for the bugreport.
+
+ * install /xyz/ always needlessly went down the wrong path of
+ trying to download "/xyz/". We're now catching this mistake
+ earlier. Thanks to Jost Krieger for he idea.
+
+ * changed the messages on a failure of make in test and install
+ from "Oops" to something much more certifying. Thanks to Jost
+ Krieger for the idea.
+
+ * in vcmp short circuit for equality for speedup. Thanks to Jost
+ Krieger for the idea.
+
+2000-08-27 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Releasing as 1.57_53 without enough testing in the hope that I
+ can test more the next days and maybe others can test a little.
+
+ * CPAN::Distribution did not handle the force_update attribute
+ correctly: it was never reset to false. Tried to fix that at the
+ end of sub install and by limiting the scope of the force_update
+ attribute to install, not to make anymore. Thirdly, the places
+ where we leave the make, test or install by means of the signal
+ handler, we also reset force.
+
+ * Added a test for CPAN::Version::vcmp.
+
+ * lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm (init): corrected spelling (Thanks to Ask
+ B. Hansen)
+
+2000-08-25 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * rd_modpacks: track deletes on every reread, otherwise the
+ metadatacache won't forget a thing ever.
+
+ * Fixing Distribution->clean which was broken in that it set
+ "force_update" leading to a mess when the user later tried to
+ build this dist again. Thanks to Jost Krieger for spotting this.
+
+ * Minor cleanups
+
+ * CPAN::Version::readable now picks the head of the string
+
+ * Storable::store => nstore. Thanks to Tim Jenness for the hint
+
+2000-08-21 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Detected code duplication in CPAN::Shell::o and
+ CPAN::Config::edit. Moved everything to CPAN::Config::prettyprint
+
+ * Introduced package CPAN::Version which fixed and extended the
+ support for v-strings. Old perls should not be affected at all and
+ new perls should be protected against broken displays. New perls
+ should also "do the right thing" as soon as the index files write
+ "v1.0" for the literal v1.0 . Seems now feature-complete to me.
+ Next thing to do is upgrade PAUSE and see what happens.
+
+ * Applied a patch by Slaven Rezic to allow cacheing of the
+ metadata from the index files via Storable.
+
+2000-08-16 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Fixed numerous chdir that were not checked for success.
+
+2000-08-13 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Thought about v-strings and their impact. Marked the relevant
+ places in the code with "%vd" and applied some more or less simple
+ changes to try a few things out. See Todo for a few memo
+ sentences. At least diagnostics.pm is now reported fine as 1.0
+ again.
+
+ * Added support for Archive::Zip. The less external programs
+ needed the better (?)
+
+2000-08-11 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Changed all occurrences of $ in regular expressions to (?!\n)\Z
+ which is a 5.004-save equivalent of \z. Thus patch 5406 to the
+ perl core is re-integrated after it had been thrown out on
+ 2000-03-25.
+
+ * isa_perl logic was duplicated in CPAN::Distribution::isa_perl
+ and in CPAN::Shell::_binary_extensions. Made the latter use the
+ former. Also extended the Distribution object with CPAN_COMMENT
+ that can be set from the "02..." index file. If that comment
+ matches /isa_perl\(.+?\)/, then it is a perl and $1 is the
+ version.
+
+2000-08-01 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Quick bugfix release 1.56. Thanks to Bruce Barnett <barnett
+ birch.crd.ge.com> who showed me that I had forgotten debugging
+ statements in the CPAN::Module::inst_version method reminding me
+ also that unpatched 5.6.0 still produces warnings where it
+ shouldn't. A quick fix is in and I release that as 1.56
+ immediately.
+
+2000-07-30 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Made completion output for a,b,d,m sorted. I have no idea when
+ this sorting was lost or if it ever was there.
+
+ * Set version number to 1.55 and going to release today or
+ tomorrow after testing.
+
+ * o conf was not prepared for hash refs.
+
+ * Fixed propagation of error report during Bundle installation.
+ Until now recursive bundles reported each bundle's faiures
+ separately. Now callers in addition report what called bundles
+ reported. This still doesn't seem perfect because the report can
+ come too early but at least it is better now than it was and if
+ one reruns the install command on a bundle, the report will be
+ correct on the second run.
+
+2000-07-29 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Applied a patch by Daniel Muiño <dmuino@afip.gov.ar> that was
+ submitted to p5p where a my($msg) declaration was conditional.
+
+ * Applied a patch by Anno Siegel who encountered a rarely seen bug
+ in the download logic wrt. gzipped vs. not gzipped downloads. He
+ cleaned up the variable names too in that area and I cleaned some
+ more variable names after him. I believe, the variable names there
+ were really inappropriate/misleading.
+
+ * Following a suggestion by Michael G. Schwern, I made "ask" the
+ default for prerequisites_policy. The old default of "follow"
+ seemed to intimidate some new users, he said, and I agree, the
+ default should be as little intrusive as possible while still
+ being useful. "ask" seems the right choice for a first time user.
+
+2000-06-23 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Replaced the undocumented old semantics of
+ C<$CPAN::Dontload{"Compress::Zlib"} = undef;> in favor of the more
+ natural C<$CPAN::Config->{"dontload_hash"}{"Compress::Zlib"} = 1;>
+ and documented that.
+
+ * Eliminated all occurrances of E<39> in the POD because
+ pod2html has a bug that mistreats them and we do not really
+ need them. Thanks to Daniel S. Lewart for reporting his.
+
+2000-06-18 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * The "a" command now always converts its arguments to uppercase.
+
+2000-06-17 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Introduced has_usable which is pickier than has_inst. Thanks to
+ a report by Ian Phillipps who reported the Net::FTP/Net::Config
+ connection: e.g. upgrading the processor deprecates Net::Config
+ but not Net::FTP.
+
+ * Applied a patch by Ben Tilly that changed the exception of
+ isa_perl in CPAN::Distribution::make() from dying to warning so
+ that bundles can continue if they contain core modules.
+
+2000-04-15 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Thanks to "Magnus Ullberg" <mullberg@hotmail.com> who reported
+ that configuring lynx with arguments actually works, so I
+ documented it in the firewall section.
+
+2000-03-28 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Change ${DISTVNAME} to $(DISTVNAME) in the Makefile.PL because
+ nmake can't deal with the former. Thanks to David P. Mott
+ <dpmott@sep.com> for the report.
+
+2000-03-25 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Change all \z back to $ because \z is not in perl5.004_05.
+ Thanks to Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com> for the report.
+ Update: Later Ronald Kimball posted the better solution to P5P. He
+ said "'\z' is equivalent to '(?!\n)\Z' and '\Z(?!\n)', which
+ should work under 5.004."
+
+2000-03-22 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Both Andrew Speer <andrew.speer@isolutions.com.au> and Michael
+ G. Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> sent me a patch to the effect that
+ version numbers in PREREQ_PM are honoured. Till now we installed
+ the newest version for all PREREQ_PMs. I applied a mishmash of the
+ two patches.
+
+2000-03-20 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Found bug in the changes made on 03-14, the return value of
+ &CPAN::Config::edit must be true.
+
+2000-03-17 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * lib/CPAN.pm: no lib "."; since we do a lot of chdirs *and* do a
+ lot of demand-loading, we need to prune the current directory. I
+ wonder how everything could work so smoothely with the default
+ INC path.
+
+2000-03-14 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Editing the $CPAN::Config hashref had always tried to keep the
+ type of hash values but that was errorprone. Switched to matching
+ /list\z/ in the key instead.
+
+ * Changing the urllist now triggers resetting of Thesite and
+ Themethod. Maybe this needs a more general solution that resets
+ any cache of any variable, but for testing the effect, I start
+ with these two.
+
+2000-03-11 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Added an FAQ section to the manpage. First 2 Fs deal with
+ UNINST=1.
+
+2000-03-10 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Updated the isa_perl checks to match 5.6.0 style.
+
+ * The 02modules... file is now verified against its Line-Count
+ header. The other index files need new headers to verify them.
+
+ * Without any net access we did not make it through the
+ configuration dialog. Fixed now.
+
+ * Apply patches 4416, 4419, 5406 and 5409 from perl-5.6.0
+ candidate.
+
+2000-01-08 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Releasing 1.52 which is a pure bugfix release. New functionality
+ is there but not used or not documented. Should be very stable.
+
+2000-01-03 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Added a CPAN::Distribution::containsmods method that lists all
+ modules within a distribution.
+
+ * reload index now removes the whole old index. No, wait a minute,
+ that's stupid. We want to keep session info. This is just a
+ temporary measure to improve debugging. What we need is "wipe
+ index" or some such and we need it for debugging only. [Backed out]
+
+ * Text::Wrapping output of "o debug".
+
+ * Fixed an uninitialized warning in CPAN::Shell::expand()
+
+ * Protected call to close() in DESTROY with "if defined".
+
+ * Allow "#" comments in a bundle definition section.
+
+ * Text::Wrapping bundle install summary.
+
+2000-01-02 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Overhauled the help page that gets output on "h", documented
+ "get", undocumented "install r", it never worked (Thanks to Peder
+ Stray <pederst@ifi.uio.no> for spotting)
+
+ * ncftpget made to work again by changing directory before
+ downloading (spotted aeons ago by Jarkko Hietaniemi)
+
+1999-12-31 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Applied a patch by Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com> which
+ corrects the computation of disk usage on the Mac.
+
+1999-12-29 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Increased 30 to 60 in FirstTime where we "protect" against old
+ MIRRORED.BY files and protect against endless loop if MIRRORED.BY
+ remains older. Thanks for spotting the bug to James P. Goltz
+ <goltz@nfr.net>.
+
+ * Applied patch from Doug MacEachern that implements cvs_import
+ without documentation.
+
+1999-10-26 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Joe Schell <jschell@peakss.com> sent me a fix that disabled
+ processing of bundles on NT.
+
+1999-10-15 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Fixed a typo reported by Stas Bekman <sbekman@iil.intel.com>
+
+1999-10-01 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Added a posting by Larry as a comment to rethink use of
+ $SIG{__DIE__}
+
+1999-08-01 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Applied a patch by 1999-06-13 Adrian Aichner
+ <aichner@ecf.teradyne.com>
+ (hosthardest): Initialize $netrcfile with $netrc->netrc.
+ (untar): Attempt piping gzip output to tar irregardless of
+ $OSNAME. Run commands separately in case of error.
+
+ * Applied a patch from Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ for unbuffering STDOUT and STDERR to get sane behavior in pipes.
+
+1999-07-30 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Fixed a floating point issue that came up with DBD::ADO. See
+ stringify comment in CPAN::Module::inst_version. Thanks to Lupe
+ Christoph <lupe@lupe-christoph.de> and Michael G. Schwern
+ <schwern@pobox.com> for the reports and Tim Bunce
+ <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> for the suggestion how to fix.
+
+ * Fixed my email address in the manpage
+
+1999-07-28 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * CPAN::Nox was broken, probably since 5.005's new AUTOLOAD
+ behavior. Thanks to Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com> for the report.
+
+1999-05-23 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * The force pragma no longer removes its record of prerequisites
+ that it has already dealt with. This removes a potential for
+ infinite loops when force is in effect.
+
+ * Added a CPAN::InfoObj::dump method that can be used like so:
+ ! print expand("Distribution","JWIED/DBD-CSV-0.1021.tar.gz")->dump
+ or
+ ! print expand("Module","DBD::CSV")->dump
+ Not particularly userfriendly, thus left undocumented.
+
+ * Added a check if Makefile.PL really wrote a Makefile.
+
+1999-05-22 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Applied another patch by Ilya for return value of gzreadline
+ with regard to -1: <19990522144647.A15778@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ * Applied Ilya's patch for MD5_check_file for READ returning -1.
+
+1999-05-08 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Improved error message if cpan_home can't be created (bug report
+ by Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>)
+
+1999-04-19 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+ * Added a note about the correct format of file URLs
+
+ * Added documentation to CPAN.pm for how to write cronjobs that
+ watch The CPAN (thanks to Brian Moseley <ix@cp.net> for asking)
+
+ * FirstTime: initialize urllist to be an empty array, because
+ otherwise it could accidentally become a string
+
+ * Renamed Changes file to ChangeLog and switched format to
+ emacsens ChangeLog format
+
+\f
+ Local Variables:
+ coding:utf-8
+ End:
use File::Path ();
use File::Spec;
use vars qw($VERSION);
-$VERSION = substr q$Revision: 1.56 $, 10;
+$VERSION = substr q$Revision: 1.58 $, 10;
=head1 NAME
local($\) = "";
local($|) = 1;
- my($ans,$default,$local,$cont,$url,$expected_size);
+ my($ans,$default);
#
# Files, directories
$default = $cpan_home;
while ($ans = prompt("CPAN build and cache directory?",$default)) {
+ unless (File::Spec->file_name_is_absolute($ans)) {
+ require Cwd;
+ my $cwd = Cwd::cwd();
+ my $absans = File::Spec->catdir($cwd,$ans);
+ warn "The path '$ans' is not an absolute path. Please specify an absolute path\n";
+ $default = $absans;
+ next;
+ }
eval { File::Path::mkpath($ans); }; # dies if it can't
if ($@) {
warn "Couldn't create directory $ans.
$CPAN::Config->{term_is_latin} = ($ans =~ /^\s*y/i ? 1 : 0);
#
+ # save history in file histfile
+ #
+ print qq{
+
+If you have one of the readline packages (Term::ReadLine::Perl,
+Term::ReadLine::Gnu, possibly others) installed, the interactive CPAN
+shell will have history support. The next two questions deal with the
+filename of the history file and with its size. If you do not want to
+set this variable, please hit SPACE RETURN to the following question.
+
+};
+
+ defined($default = $CPAN::Config->{histfile}) or
+ $default = File::Spec->catfile($CPAN::Config->{cpan_home},"histfile");
+ $ans = prompt("File to save your history?", $default);
+ $ans =~ s/^\s+//;
+ $ans =~ s/\s+\z//;
+ $CPAN::Config->{histfile} = $ans;
+
+ if ($CPAN::Config->{histfile}) {
+ defined($default = $CPAN::Config->{histsize}) or $default = 100;
+ $ans = prompt("Number of lines to save?", $default);
+ $CPAN::Config->{histsize} = $ans;
+ }
+
+ #
# prerequisites_policy
# Do we follow PREREQ_PM?
#
my($items,$prompt,$default,$require_nonempty,$empty_warning)=@_;
$default ||= '';
- my $pos = 0;
+ my $pos = 0;
my @nums;
while (1) {
- # display, at most, 15 items at a time
- my $limit = $#{ $items } - $pos;
- $limit = 15 if $limit > 15;
-
- # show the next $limit items, get the new position
- $pos = display_some($items, $limit, $pos);
- $pos = 0 if $pos >= @$items;
-
- my $num = prompt($prompt,$default);
-
- @nums = split (' ', $num);
- my $i = scalar @$items;
- (warn "invalid items entered, try again\n"), next
- if grep (/\D/ || $_ < 1 || $_ > $i, @nums);
- if ($require_nonempty) {
- (warn "$empty_warning\n");
- }
- print "\n";
-
- # a blank line continues...
- next unless @nums;
- last;
+ # display, at most, 15 items at a time
+ my $limit = $#{ $items } - $pos;
+ $limit = 15 if $limit > 15;
+
+ # show the next $limit items, get the new position
+ $pos = display_some($items, $limit, $pos);
+ $pos = 0 if $pos >= @$items;
+
+ my $num = prompt($prompt,$default);
+
+ @nums = split (' ', $num);
+ my $i = scalar @$items;
+ (warn "invalid items entered, try again\n"), next
+ if grep (/\D/ || $_ < 1 || $_ > $i, @nums);
+ if ($require_nonempty) {
+ (warn "$empty_warning\n");
+ }
+ print "\n";
+
+ # a blank line continues...
+ next unless @nums;
+ last;
}
for (@nums) { $_-- }
@{$items}[@nums];
for my $item (@displayable) {
printf "(%d) %s\n", ++$pos, $item;
}
- printf "%d more items, hit ENTER\n", (@$items - $pos) if $pos < @$items;
+ printf("%d more items, hit SPACE RETURN to show them\n",
+ (@$items - $pos)
+ )
+ if $pos < @$items;
return $pos;
}
}
}
push (@urls, map ("$_ (previous pick)", @previous_urls));
- my $prompt = "Select as many URLs as you like,
-put them on one line, separated by blanks";
+ my $prompt = "Select as many URLs as you like (by number),
+put them on one line, separated by blanks, e.g. '1 4 5'";
if (@previous_urls) {
$default = join (' ', ((scalar @urls) - (scalar @previous_urls) + 1) ..
(scalar @urls));
$ans = prompt ($prompt, "");
if ($ans) {
+ $ans =~ s/^\s+//; # no leading spaces
+ $ans =~ s/\s+\z//; # no trailing spaces
$ans =~ s|/?\z|/|; # has to end with one slash
$ans = "file:$ans" unless $ans =~ /:/; # without a scheme is a file:
if ($ans =~ /^\w+:\/./) {
--- /dev/null
+NAME
+ CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
+
+SYNOPSIS
+ Interactive mode:
+
+ perl -MCPAN -e shell;
+
+ Batch mode:
+
+ use CPAN;
+
+ autobundle, clean, install, make, recompile, test
+
+STATUS
+ This module will eventually be replaced by CPANPLUS. CPANPLUS is kind of
+ a modern rewrite from ground up with greater extensibility and more
+ features but no full compatibility. If you're new to CPAN.pm, you
+ probably should investigate if CPANPLUS is the better choice for you. If
+ you're already used to CPAN.pm you're welcome to continue using it, if
+ you accept that its development is mostly (though not completely)
+ stalled.
+
+DESCRIPTION
+ The CPAN module is designed to automate the make and install of perl
+ modules and extensions. It includes some searching capabilities and
+ knows how to use Net::FTP or LWP (or lynx or an external ftp client) to
+ fetch the raw data from the net.
+
+ Modules are fetched from one or more of the mirrored CPAN (Comprehensive
+ Perl Archive Network) sites and unpacked in a dedicated directory.
+
+ The CPAN module also supports the concept of named and versioned
+ *bundles* of modules. Bundles simplify the handling of sets of related
+ modules. See Bundles below.
+
+ The package contains a session manager and a cache manager. There is no
+ status retained between sessions. The session manager keeps track of
+ what has been fetched, built and installed in the current session. The
+ cache manager keeps track of the disk space occupied by the make
+ processes and deletes excess space according to a simple FIFO mechanism.
+
+ For extended searching capabilities there's a plugin for CPAN available,
+ "CPAN::WAIT". "CPAN::WAIT" is a full-text search engine that indexes all
+ documents available in CPAN authors directories. If "CPAN::WAIT" is
+ installed on your system, the interactive shell of CPAN.pm will enable
+ the "wq", "wr", "wd", "wl", and "wh" commands which send queries to the
+ WAIT server that has been configured for your installation.
+
+ All other methods provided are accessible in a programmer style and in
+ an interactive shell style.
+
+ Interactive Mode
+ The interactive mode is entered by running
+
+ perl -MCPAN -e shell
+
+ which puts you into a readline interface. You will have the most fun if
+ you install Term::ReadKey and Term::ReadLine to enjoy both history and
+ command completion.
+
+ Once you are on the command line, type 'h' and the rest should be
+ self-explanatory.
+
+ The function call "shell" takes two optional arguments, one is the
+ prompt, the second is the default initial command line (the latter only
+ works if a real ReadLine interface module is installed).
+
+ The most common uses of the interactive modes are
+
+ Searching for authors, bundles, distribution files and modules
+ There are corresponding one-letter commands "a", "b", "d", and "m" for
+ each of the four categories and another, "i" for any of the mentioned
+ four. Each of the four entities is implemented as a class with
+ slightly differing methods for displaying an object.
+
+ Arguments you pass to these commands are either strings exactly
+ matching the identification string of an object or regular expressions
+ that are then matched case-insensitively against various attributes of
+ the objects. The parser recognizes a regular expression only if you
+ enclose it between two slashes.
+
+ The principle is that the number of found objects influences how an
+ item is displayed. If the search finds one item, the result is
+ displayed with the rather verbose method "as_string", but if we find
+ more than one, we display each object with the terse method
+ <as_glimpse>.
+
+ make, test, install, clean modules or distributions
+ These commands take any number of arguments and investigate what is
+ necessary to perform the action. If the argument is a distribution
+ file name (recognized by embedded slashes), it is processed. If it is
+ a module, CPAN determines the distribution file in which this module
+ is included and processes that, following any dependencies named in
+ the module's Makefile.PL (this behavior is controlled by
+ *prerequisites_policy*.)
+
+ Any "make" or "test" are run unconditionally. An
+
+ install <distribution_file>
+
+ also is run unconditionally. But for
+
+ install <module>
+
+ CPAN checks if an install is actually needed for it and prints *module
+ up to date* in the case that the distribution file containing the
+ module doesn't need to be updated.
+
+ CPAN also keeps track of what it has done within the current session
+ and doesn't try to build a package a second time regardless if it
+ succeeded or not. The "force" command takes as a first argument the
+ method to invoke (currently: "make", "test", or "install") and
+ executes the command from scratch.
+
+ Example:
+
+ cpan> install OpenGL
+ OpenGL is up to date.
+ cpan> force install OpenGL
+ Running make
+ OpenGL-0.4/
+ OpenGL-0.4/COPYRIGHT
+ [...]
+
+ A "clean" command results in a
+
+ make clean
+
+ being executed within the distribution file's working directory.
+
+ get, readme, look module or distribution
+ "get" downloads a distribution file without further action. "readme"
+ displays the README file of the associated distribution. "Look" gets
+ and untars (if not yet done) the distribution file, changes to the
+ appropriate directory and opens a subshell process in that directory.
+
+ ls author
+ "ls" lists all distribution files in and below an author's CPAN
+ directory. Only those files that contain modules are listed and if
+ there is more than one for any given module, only the most recent one
+ is listed.
+
+ Signals
+ CPAN.pm installs signal handlers for SIGINT and SIGTERM. While you are
+ in the cpan-shell it is intended that you can press "^C" anytime and
+ return to the cpan-shell prompt. A SIGTERM will cause the cpan-shell
+ to clean up and leave the shell loop. You can emulate the effect of a
+ SIGTERM by sending two consecutive SIGINTs, which usually means by
+ pressing "^C" twice.
+
+ CPAN.pm ignores a SIGPIPE. If the user sets inactivity_timeout, a
+ SIGALRM is used during the run of the "perl Makefile.PL" subprocess.
+
+ CPAN::Shell
+ The commands that are available in the shell interface are methods in
+ the package CPAN::Shell. If you enter the shell command, all your input
+ is split by the Text::ParseWords::shellwords() routine which acts like
+ most shells do. The first word is being interpreted as the method to be
+ called and the rest of the words are treated as arguments to this
+ method. Continuation lines are supported if a line ends with a literal
+ backslash.
+
+ autobundle
+ "autobundle" writes a bundle file into the
+ "$CPAN::Config->{cpan_home}/Bundle" directory. The file contains a list
+ of all modules that are both available from CPAN and currently installed
+ within @INC. The name of the bundle file is based on the current date
+ and a counter.
+
+ recompile
+ recompile() is a very special command in that it takes no argument and
+ runs the make/test/install cycle with brute force over all installed
+ dynamically loadable extensions (aka XS modules) with 'force' in effect.
+ The primary purpose of this command is to finish a network installation.
+ Imagine, you have a common source tree for two different architectures.
+ You decide to do a completely independent fresh installation. You start
+ on one architecture with the help of a Bundle file produced earlier.
+ CPAN installs the whole Bundle for you, but when you try to repeat the
+ job on the second architecture, CPAN responds with a "Foo up to date"
+ message for all modules. So you invoke CPAN's recompile on the second
+ architecture and you're done.
+
+ Another popular use for "recompile" is to act as a rescue in case your
+ perl breaks binary compatibility. If one of the modules that CPAN uses
+ is in turn depending on binary compatibility (so you cannot run CPAN
+ commands), then you should try the CPAN::Nox module for recovery.
+
+ The four "CPAN::*" Classes: Author, Bundle, Module, Distribution
+ Although it may be considered internal, the class hierarchy does matter
+ for both users and programmer. CPAN.pm deals with above mentioned four
+ classes, and all those classes share a set of methods. A classical
+ single polymorphism is in effect. A metaclass object registers all
+ objects of all kinds and indexes them with a string. The strings
+ referencing objects have a separated namespace (well, not completely
+ separated):
+
+ Namespace Class
+
+ words containing a "/" (slash) Distribution
+ words starting with Bundle:: Bundle
+ everything else Module or Author
+
+ Modules know their associated Distribution objects. They always refer to
+ the most recent official release. Developers may mark their releases as
+ unstable development versions (by inserting an underbar into the module
+ version number which will also be reflected in the distribution name
+ when you run 'make dist'), so the really hottest and newest distribution
+ is not always the default. If a module Foo circulates on CPAN in both
+ version 1.23 and 1.23_90, CPAN.pm offers a convenient way to install
+ version 1.23 by saying
+
+ install Foo
+
+ This would install the complete distribution file (say
+ BAR/Foo-1.23.tar.gz) with all accompanying material. But if you would
+ like to install version 1.23_90, you need to know where the distribution
+ file resides on CPAN relative to the authors/id/ directory. If the
+ author is BAR, this might be BAR/Foo-1.23_90.tar.gz; so you would have
+ to say
+
+ install BAR/Foo-1.23_90.tar.gz
+
+ The first example will be driven by an object of the class CPAN::Module,
+ the second by an object of class CPAN::Distribution.
+
+ Programmer's interface
+ If you do not enter the shell, the available shell commands are both
+ available as methods ("CPAN::Shell->install(...)") and as functions in
+ the calling package ("install(...)").
+
+ There's currently only one class that has a stable interface -
+ CPAN::Shell. All commands that are available in the CPAN shell are
+ methods of the class CPAN::Shell. Each of the commands that produce
+ listings of modules ("r", "autobundle", "u") also return a list of the
+ IDs of all modules within the list.
+
+ expand($type,@things)
+ The IDs of all objects available within a program are strings that can
+ be expanded to the corresponding real objects with the
+ "CPAN::Shell->expand("Module",@things)" method. Expand returns a list
+ of CPAN::Module objects according to the @things arguments given. In
+ scalar context it only returns the first element of the list.
+
+ expandany(@things)
+ Like expand, but returns objects of the appropriate type, i.e.
+ CPAN::Bundle objects for bundles, CPAN::Module objects for modules and
+ CPAN::Distribution objects fro distributions.
+
+ Programming Examples
+ This enables the programmer to do operations that combine
+ functionalities that are available in the shell.
+
+ # install everything that is outdated on my disk:
+ perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install(CPAN::Shell->r)'
+
+ # install my favorite programs if necessary:
+ for $mod (qw(Net::FTP Digest::MD5 Data::Dumper)){
+ my $obj = CPAN::Shell->expand('Module',$mod);
+ $obj->install;
+ }
+
+ # list all modules on my disk that have no VERSION number
+ for $mod (CPAN::Shell->expand("Module","/./")){
+ next unless $mod->inst_file;
+ # MakeMaker convention for undefined $VERSION:
+ next unless $mod->inst_version eq "undef";
+ print "No VERSION in ", $mod->id, "\n";
+ }
+
+ # find out which distribution on CPAN contains a module:
+ print CPAN::Shell->expand("Module","Apache::Constants")->cpan_file
+
+ Or if you want to write a cronjob to watch The CPAN, you could list
+ all modules that need updating. First a quick and dirty way:
+
+ perl -e 'use CPAN; CPAN::Shell->r;'
+
+ If you don't want to get any output in the case that all modules are
+ up to date, you can parse the output of above command for the regular
+ expression //modules are up to date// and decide to mail the output
+ only if it doesn't match. Ick?
+
+ If you prefer to do it more in a programmer style in one single
+ process, maybe something like this suits you better:
+
+ # list all modules on my disk that have newer versions on CPAN
+ for $mod (CPAN::Shell->expand("Module","/./")){
+ next unless $mod->inst_file;
+ next if $mod->uptodate;
+ printf "Module %s is installed as %s, could be updated to %s from CPAN\n",
+ $mod->id, $mod->inst_version, $mod->cpan_version;
+ }
+
+ If that gives you too much output every day, you maybe only want to
+ watch for three modules. You can write
+
+ for $mod (CPAN::Shell->expand("Module","/Apache|LWP|CGI/")){
+
+ as the first line instead. Or you can combine some of the above
+ tricks:
+
+ # watch only for a new mod_perl module
+ $mod = CPAN::Shell->expand("Module","mod_perl");
+ exit if $mod->uptodate;
+ # new mod_perl arrived, let me know all update recommendations
+ CPAN::Shell->r;
+
+ Methods in the other Classes
+ The programming interface for the classes CPAN::Module,
+ CPAN::Distribution, CPAN::Bundle, and CPAN::Author is still considered
+ beta and partially even alpha. In the following paragraphs only those
+ methods are documented that have proven useful over a longer time and
+ thus are unlikely to change.
+
+ CPAN::Author::as_glimpse()
+ Returns a one-line description of the author
+
+ CPAN::Author::as_string()
+ Returns a multi-line description of the author
+
+ CPAN::Author::email()
+ Returns the author's email address
+
+ CPAN::Author::fullname()
+ Returns the author's name
+
+ CPAN::Author::name()
+ An alias for fullname
+
+ CPAN::Bundle::as_glimpse()
+ Returns a one-line description of the bundle
+
+ CPAN::Bundle::as_string()
+ Returns a multi-line description of the bundle
+
+ CPAN::Bundle::clean()
+ Recursively runs the "clean" method on all items contained in the
+ bundle.
+
+ CPAN::Bundle::contains()
+ Returns a list of objects' IDs contained in a bundle. The associated
+ objects may be bundles, modules or distributions.
+
+ CPAN::Bundle::force($method,@args)
+ Forces CPAN to perform a task that normally would have failed. Force
+ takes as arguments a method name to be called and any number of
+ additional arguments that should be passed to the called method. The
+ internals of the object get the needed changes so that CPAN.pm does
+ not refuse to take the action. The "force" is passed recursively to
+ all contained objects.
+
+ CPAN::Bundle::get()
+ Recursively runs the "get" method on all items contained in the
+ bundle
+
+ CPAN::Bundle::inst_file()
+ Returns the highest installed version of the bundle in either @INC
+ or "$CPAN::Config-"{cpan_home}>. Note that this is different from
+ CPAN::Module::inst_file.
+
+ CPAN::Bundle::inst_version()
+ Like CPAN::Bundle::inst_file, but returns the $VERSION
+
+ CPAN::Bundle::uptodate()
+ Returns 1 if the bundle itself and all its members are uptodate.
+
+ CPAN::Bundle::install()
+ Recursively runs the "install" method on all items contained in the
+ bundle
+
+ CPAN::Bundle::make()
+ Recursively runs the "make" method on all items contained in the
+ bundle
+
+ CPAN::Bundle::readme()
+ Recursively runs the "readme" method on all items contained in the
+ bundle
+
+ CPAN::Bundle::test()
+ Recursively runs the "test" method on all items contained in the
+ bundle
+
+ CPAN::Distribution::as_glimpse()
+ Returns a one-line description of the distribution
+
+ CPAN::Distribution::as_string()
+ Returns a multi-line description of the distribution
+
+ CPAN::Distribution::clean()
+ Changes to the directory where the distribution has been unpacked
+ and runs "make clean" there.
+
+ CPAN::Distribution::containsmods()
+ Returns a list of IDs of modules contained in a distribution file.
+ Only works for distributions listed in the 02packages.details.txt.gz
+ file. This typically means that only the most recent version of a
+ distribution is covered.
+
+ CPAN::Distribution::cvs_import()
+ Changes to the directory where the distribution has been unpacked
+ and runs something like
+
+ cvs -d $cvs_root import -m $cvs_log $cvs_dir $userid v$version
+
+ there.
+
+ CPAN::Distribution::dir()
+ Returns the directory into which this distribution has been
+ unpacked.
+
+ CPAN::Distribution::force($method,@args)
+ Forces CPAN to perform a task that normally would have failed. Force
+ takes as arguments a method name to be called and any number of
+ additional arguments that should be passed to the called method. The
+ internals of the object get the needed changes so that CPAN.pm does
+ not refuse to take the action.
+
+ CPAN::Distribution::get()
+ Downloads the distribution from CPAN and unpacks it. Does nothing if
+ the distribution has already been downloaded and unpacked within the
+ current session.
+
+ CPAN::Distribution::install()
+ Changes to the directory where the distribution has been unpacked
+ and runs the external command "make install" there. If "make" has
+ not yet been run, it will be run first. A "make test" will be issued
+ in any case and if this fails, the install will be canceled. The
+ cancellation can be avoided by letting "force" run the "install" for
+ you.
+
+ CPAN::Distribution::isa_perl()
+ Returns 1 if this distribution file seems to be a perl distribution.
+ Normally this is derived from the file name only, but the index from
+ CPAN can contain a hint to achieve a return value of true for other
+ filenames too.
+
+ CPAN::Distribution::look()
+ Changes to the directory where the distribution has been unpacked
+ and opens a subshell there. Exiting the subshell returns.
+
+ CPAN::Distribution::make()
+ First runs the "get" method to make sure the distribution is
+ downloaded and unpacked. Changes to the directory where the
+ distribution has been unpacked and runs the external commands "perl
+ Makefile.PL" and "make" there.
+
+ CPAN::Distribution::prereq_pm()
+ Returns the hash reference that has been announced by a distribution
+ as the PREREQ_PM hash in the Makefile.PL. Note: works only after an
+ attempt has been made to "make" the distribution. Returns undef
+ otherwise.
+
+ CPAN::Distribution::readme()
+ Downloads the README file associated with a distribution and runs it
+ through the pager specified in "$CPAN::Config-"{pager}>.
+
+ CPAN::Distribution::test()
+ Changes to the directory where the distribution has been unpacked
+ and runs "make test" there.
+
+ CPAN::Distribution::uptodate()
+ Returns 1 if all the modules contained in the distribution are
+ uptodate. Relies on containsmods.
+
+ CPAN::Index::force_reload()
+ Forces a reload of all indices.
+
+ CPAN::Index::reload()
+ Reloads all indices if they have been read more than
+ "$CPAN::Config-"{index_expire}> days.
+
+ CPAN::InfoObj::dump()
+ CPAN::Author, CPAN::Bundle, CPAN::Module, and CPAN::Distribution
+ inherit this method. It prints the data structure associated with an
+ object. Useful for debugging. Note: the data structure is considered
+ internal and thus subject to change without notice.
+
+ CPAN::Module::as_glimpse()
+ Returns a one-line description of the module
+
+ CPAN::Module::as_string()
+ Returns a multi-line description of the module
+
+ CPAN::Module::clean()
+ Runs a clean on the distribution associated with this module.
+
+ CPAN::Module::cpan_file()
+ Returns the filename on CPAN that is associated with the module.
+
+ CPAN::Module::cpan_version()
+ Returns the latest version of this module available on CPAN.
+
+ CPAN::Module::cvs_import()
+ Runs a cvs_import on the distribution associated with this module.
+
+ CPAN::Module::description()
+ Returns a 44 character description of this module. Only available
+ for modules listed in The Module List
+ (CPAN/modules/00modlist.long.html or 00modlist.long.txt.gz)
+
+ CPAN::Module::force($method,@args)
+ Forces CPAN to perform a task that normally would have failed. Force
+ takes as arguments a method name to be called and any number of
+ additional arguments that should be passed to the called method. The
+ internals of the object get the needed changes so that CPAN.pm does
+ not refuse to take the action.
+
+ CPAN::Module::get()
+ Runs a get on the distribution associated with this module.
+
+ CPAN::Module::inst_file()
+ Returns the filename of the module found in @INC. The first file
+ found is reported just like perl itself stops searching @INC when it
+ finds a module.
+
+ CPAN::Module::inst_version()
+ Returns the version number of the module in readable format.
+
+ CPAN::Module::install()
+ Runs an "install" on the distribution associated with this module.
+
+ CPAN::Module::look()
+ Changes to the directory where the distribution associated with this
+ module has been unpacked and opens a subshell there. Exiting the
+ subshell returns.
+
+ CPAN::Module::make()
+ Runs a "make" on the distribution associated with this module.
+
+ CPAN::Module::manpage_headline()
+ If module is installed, peeks into the module's manpage, reads the
+ headline and returns it. Moreover, if the module has been downloaded
+ within this session, does the equivalent on the downloaded module
+ even if it is not installed.
+
+ CPAN::Module::readme()
+ Runs a "readme" on the distribution associated with this module.
+
+ CPAN::Module::test()
+ Runs a "test" on the distribution associated with this module.
+
+ CPAN::Module::uptodate()
+ Returns 1 if the module is installed and up-to-date.
+
+ CPAN::Module::userid()
+ Returns the author's ID of the module.
+
+ Cache Manager
+ Currently the cache manager only keeps track of the build directory
+ ($CPAN::Config->{build_dir}). It is a simple FIFO mechanism that deletes
+ complete directories below "build_dir" as soon as the size of all
+ directories there gets bigger than $CPAN::Config->{build_cache} (in MB).
+ The contents of this cache may be used for later re-installations that
+ you intend to do manually, but will never be trusted by CPAN itself.
+ This is due to the fact that the user might use these directories for
+ building modules on different architectures.
+
+ There is another directory ($CPAN::Config->{keep_source_where}) where
+ the original distribution files are kept. This directory is not covered
+ by the cache manager and must be controlled by the user. If you choose
+ to have the same directory as build_dir and as keep_source_where
+ directory, then your sources will be deleted with the same fifo
+ mechanism.
+
+ Bundles
+ A bundle is just a perl module in the namespace Bundle:: that does not
+ define any functions or methods. It usually only contains documentation.
+
+ It starts like a perl module with a package declaration and a $VERSION
+ variable. After that the pod section looks like any other pod with the
+ only difference being that *one special pod section* exists starting
+ with (verbatim):
+
+ =head1 CONTENTS
+
+ In this pod section each line obeys the format
+
+ Module_Name [Version_String] [- optional text]
+
+ The only required part is the first field, the name of a module (e.g.
+ Foo::Bar, ie. *not* the name of the distribution file). The rest of the
+ line is optional. The comment part is delimited by a dash just as in the
+ man page header.
+
+ The distribution of a bundle should follow the same convention as other
+ distributions.
+
+ Bundles are treated specially in the CPAN package. If you say 'install
+ Bundle::Tkkit' (assuming such a bundle exists), CPAN will install all
+ the modules in the CONTENTS section of the pod. You can install your own
+ Bundles locally by placing a conformant Bundle file somewhere into your
+ @INC path. The autobundle() command which is available in the shell
+ interface does that for you by including all currently installed modules
+ in a snapshot bundle file.
+
+ Prerequisites
+ If you have a local mirror of CPAN and can access all files with "file:"
+ URLs, then you only need a perl better than perl5.003 to run this
+ module. Otherwise Net::FTP is strongly recommended. LWP may be required
+ for non-UNIX systems or if your nearest CPAN site is associated with a
+ URL that is not "ftp:".
+
+ If you have neither Net::FTP nor LWP, there is a fallback mechanism
+ implemented for an external ftp command or for an external lynx command.
+
+ Finding packages and VERSION
+ This module presumes that all packages on CPAN
+
+ * declare their $VERSION variable in an easy to parse manner. This
+ prerequisite can hardly be relaxed because it consumes far too much
+ memory to load all packages into the running program just to determine
+ the $VERSION variable. Currently all programs that are dealing with
+ version use something like this
+
+ perl -MExtUtils::MakeMaker -le \
+ 'print MM->parse_version(shift)' filename
+
+ If you are author of a package and wonder if your $VERSION can be
+ parsed, please try the above method.
+
+ * come as compressed or gzipped tarfiles or as zip files and contain a
+ Makefile.PL (well, we try to handle a bit more, but without much
+ enthusiasm).
+
+ Debugging
+ The debugging of this module is a bit complex, because we have
+ interferences of the software producing the indices on CPAN, of the
+ mirroring process on CPAN, of packaging, of configuration, of
+ synchronicity, and of bugs within CPAN.pm.
+
+ For code debugging in interactive mode you can try "o debug" which will
+ list options for debugging the various parts of the code. You should
+ know that "o debug" has built-in completion support.
+
+ For data debugging there is the "dump" command which takes the same
+ arguments as make/test/install and outputs the object's Data::Dumper
+ dump.
+
+ Floppy, Zip, Offline Mode
+ CPAN.pm works nicely without network too. If you maintain machines that
+ are not networked at all, you should consider working with file: URLs.
+ Of course, you have to collect your modules somewhere first. So you
+ might use CPAN.pm to put together all you need on a networked machine.
+ Then copy the $CPAN::Config->{keep_source_where} (but not
+ $CPAN::Config->{build_dir}) directory on a floppy. This floppy is kind
+ of a personal CPAN. CPAN.pm on the non-networked machines works nicely
+ with this floppy. See also below the paragraph about CD-ROM support.
+
+CONFIGURATION
+ When the CPAN module is installed, a site wide configuration file is
+ created as CPAN/Config.pm. The default values defined there can be
+ overridden in another configuration file: CPAN/MyConfig.pm. You can
+ store this file in $HOME/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm if you want, because
+ $HOME/.cpan is added to the search path of the CPAN module before the
+ use() or require() statements.
+
+ Currently the following keys in the hash reference $CPAN::Config are
+ defined:
+
+ build_cache size of cache for directories to build modules
+ build_dir locally accessible directory to build modules
+ index_expire after this many days refetch index files
+ cache_metadata use serializer to cache metadata
+ cpan_home local directory reserved for this package
+ dontload_hash anonymous hash: modules in the keys will not be
+ loaded by the CPAN::has_inst() routine
+ gzip location of external program gzip
+ histfile file to maintain history between sessions
+ histsize maximum number of lines to keep in histfile
+ inactivity_timeout breaks interactive Makefile.PLs after this
+ many seconds inactivity. Set to 0 to never break.
+ inhibit_startup_message
+ if true, does not print the startup message
+ keep_source_where directory in which to keep the source (if we do)
+ make location of external make program
+ make_arg arguments that should always be passed to 'make'
+ make_install_arg same as make_arg for 'make install'
+ makepl_arg arguments passed to 'perl Makefile.PL'
+ pager location of external program more (or any pager)
+ prerequisites_policy
+ what to do if you are missing module prerequisites
+ ('follow' automatically, 'ask' me, or 'ignore')
+ proxy_user username for accessing an authenticating proxy
+ proxy_pass password for accessing an authenticating proxy
+ scan_cache controls scanning of cache ('atstart' or 'never')
+ tar location of external program tar
+ term_is_latin if true internal UTF-8 is translated to ISO-8859-1
+ (and nonsense for characters outside latin range)
+ unzip location of external program unzip
+ urllist arrayref to nearby CPAN sites (or equivalent locations)
+ wait_list arrayref to a wait server to try (See CPAN::WAIT)
+ ftp_proxy, } the three usual variables for configuring
+ http_proxy, } proxy requests. Both as CPAN::Config variables
+ no_proxy } and as environment variables configurable.
+
+ You can set and query each of these options interactively in the cpan
+ shell with the command set defined within the "o conf" command:
+
+ "o conf <scalar option>"
+ prints the current value of the *scalar option*
+
+ "o conf <scalar option> <value>"
+ Sets the value of the *scalar option* to *value*
+
+ "o conf <list option>"
+ prints the current value of the *list option* in MakeMaker's neatvalue
+ format.
+
+ "o conf <list option> [shift|pop]"
+ shifts or pops the array in the *list option* variable
+
+ "o conf <list option> [unshift|push|splice] <list>"
+ works like the corresponding perl commands.
+
+ Note on urllist parameter's format
+ urllist parameters are URLs according to RFC 1738. We do a little
+ guessing if your URL is not compliant, but if you have problems with
+ file URLs, please try the correct format. Either:
+
+ file://localhost/whatever/ftp/pub/CPAN/
+
+ or
+
+ file:///home/ftp/pub/CPAN/
+
+ urllist parameter has CD-ROM support
+ The "urllist" parameter of the configuration table contains a list of
+ URLs that are to be used for downloading. If the list contains any
+ "file" URLs, CPAN always tries to get files from there first. This
+ feature is disabled for index files. So the recommendation for the owner
+ of a CD-ROM with CPAN contents is: include your local, possibly outdated
+ CD-ROM as a "file" URL at the end of urllist, e.g.
+
+ o conf urllist push file://localhost/CDROM/CPAN
+
+ CPAN.pm will then fetch the index files from one of the CPAN sites that
+ come at the beginning of urllist. It will later check for each module if
+ there is a local copy of the most recent version.
+
+ Another peculiarity of urllist is that the site that we could
+ successfully fetch the last file from automatically gets a preference
+ token and is tried as the first site for the next request. So if you add
+ a new site at runtime it may happen that the previously preferred site
+ will be tried another time. This means that if you want to disallow a
+ site for the next transfer, it must be explicitly removed from urllist.
+
+SECURITY
+ There's no strong security layer in CPAN.pm. CPAN.pm helps you to
+ install foreign, unmasked, unsigned code on your machine. We compare to
+ a checksum that comes from the net just as the distribution file itself.
+ If somebody has managed to tamper with the distribution file, they may
+ have as well tampered with the CHECKSUMS file. Future development will
+ go towards strong authentication.
+
+EXPORT
+ Most functions in package CPAN are exported per default. The reason for
+ this is that the primary use is intended for the cpan shell or for
+ one-liners.
+
+POPULATE AN INSTALLATION WITH LOTS OF MODULES
+ Populating a freshly installed perl with my favorite modules is pretty
+ easy if you maintain a private bundle definition file. To get a useful
+ blueprint of a bundle definition file, the command autobundle can be
+ used on the CPAN shell command line. This command writes a bundle
+ definition file for all modules that are installed for the currently
+ running perl interpreter. It's recommended to run this command only once
+ and from then on maintain the file manually under a private name, say
+ Bundle/my_bundle.pm. With a clever bundle file you can then simply say
+
+ cpan> install Bundle::my_bundle
+
+ then answer a few questions and then go out for a coffee.
+
+ Maintaining a bundle definition file means keeping track of two things:
+ dependencies and interactivity. CPAN.pm sometimes fails on calculating
+ dependencies because not all modules define all MakeMaker attributes
+ correctly, so a bundle definition file should specify prerequisites as
+ early as possible. On the other hand, it's a bit annoying that many
+ distributions need some interactive configuring. So what I try to
+ accomplish in my private bundle file is to have the packages that need
+ to be configured early in the file and the gentle ones later, so I can
+ go out after a few minutes and leave CPAN.pm untended.
+
+WORKING WITH CPAN.pm BEHIND FIREWALLS
+ Thanks to Graham Barr for contributing the following paragraphs about
+ the interaction between perl, and various firewall configurations. For
+ further informations on firewalls, it is recommended to consult the
+ documentation that comes with the ncftp program. If you are unable to go
+ through the firewall with a simple Perl setup, it is very likely that
+ you can configure ncftp so that it works for your firewall.
+
+ Three basic types of firewalls
+ Firewalls can be categorized into three basic types.
+
+ http firewall
+ This is where the firewall machine runs a web server and to access
+ the outside world you must do it via the web server. If you set
+ environment variables like http_proxy or ftp_proxy to a values
+ beginning with http:// or in your web browser you have to set proxy
+ information then you know you are running an http firewall.
+
+ To access servers outside these types of firewalls with perl (even
+ for ftp) you will need to use LWP.
+
+ ftp firewall
+ This where the firewall machine runs an ftp server. This kind of
+ firewall will only let you access ftp servers outside the firewall.
+ This is usually done by connecting to the firewall with ftp, then
+ entering a username like "user@outside.host.com"
+
+ To access servers outside these type of firewalls with perl you will
+ need to use Net::FTP.
+
+ One way visibility
+ I say one way visibility as these firewalls try to make themselves
+ look invisible to the users inside the firewall. An FTP data
+ connection is normally created by sending the remote server your IP
+ address and then listening for the connection. But the remote server
+ will not be able to connect to you because of the firewall. So for
+ these types of firewall FTP connections need to be done in a passive
+ mode.
+
+ There are two that I can think off.
+
+ SOCKS
+ If you are using a SOCKS firewall you will need to compile perl
+ and link it with the SOCKS library, this is what is normally
+ called a 'socksified' perl. With this executable you will be
+ able to connect to servers outside the firewall as if it is not
+ there.
+
+ IP Masquerade
+ This is the firewall implemented in the Linux kernel, it allows
+ you to hide a complete network behind one IP address. With this
+ firewall no special compiling is needed as you can access hosts
+ directly.
+
+ For accessing ftp servers behind such firewalls you may need to
+ set the environment variable "FTP_PASSIVE" to a true value, e.g.
+
+ env FTP_PASSIVE=1 perl -MCPAN -eshell
+
+ or
+
+ perl -MCPAN -e '$ENV{FTP_PASSIVE} = 1; shell'
+
+ Configuring lynx or ncftp for going through a firewall
+ If you can go through your firewall with e.g. lynx, presumably with a
+ command such as
+
+ /usr/local/bin/lynx -pscott:tiger
+
+ then you would configure CPAN.pm with the command
+
+ o conf lynx "/usr/local/bin/lynx -pscott:tiger"
+
+ That's all. Similarly for ncftp or ftp, you would configure something
+ like
+
+ o conf ncftp "/usr/bin/ncftp -f /home/scott/ncftplogin.cfg"
+
+ Your mileage may vary...
+
+FAQ
+ 1) I installed a new version of module X but CPAN keeps saying, I have
+ the old version installed
+
+ Most probably you do have the old version installed. This can happen
+ if a module installs itself into a different directory in the @INC
+ path than it was previously installed. This is not really a CPAN.pm
+ problem, you would have the same problem when installing the module
+ manually. The easiest way to prevent this behaviour is to add the
+ argument "UNINST=1" to the "make install" call, and that is why many
+ people add this argument permanently by configuring
+
+ o conf make_install_arg UNINST=1
+
+ 2) So why is UNINST=1 not the default?
+
+ Because there are people who have their precise expectations about
+ who may install where in the @INC path and who uses which @INC
+ array. In fine tuned environments "UNINST=1" can cause damage.
+
+ 3) I want to clean up my mess, and install a new perl along with all
+ modules I have. How do I go about it?
+
+ Run the autobundle command for your old perl and optionally rename
+ the resulting bundle file (e.g. Bundle/mybundle.pm), install the new
+ perl with the Configure option prefix, e.g.
+
+ ./Configure -Dprefix=/usr/local/perl-5.6.78.9
+
+ Install the bundle file you produced in the first step with
+ something like
+
+ cpan> install Bundle::mybundle
+
+ and you're done.
+
+ 4) When I install bundles or multiple modules with one command there is
+ too much output to keep track of.
+
+ You may want to configure something like
+
+ o conf make_arg "| tee -ai /root/.cpan/logs/make.out"
+ o conf make_install_arg "| tee -ai /root/.cpan/logs/make_install.out"
+
+ so that STDOUT is captured in a file for later inspection.
+
+ 5) I am not root, how can I install a module in a personal directory?
+
+ You will most probably like something like this:
+
+ o conf makepl_arg "LIB=~/myperl/lib \
+ INSTALLMAN1DIR=~/myperl/man/man1 \
+ INSTALLMAN3DIR=~/myperl/man/man3"
+ install Sybase::Sybperl
+
+ You can make this setting permanent like all "o conf" settings with
+ "o conf commit".
+
+ You will have to add ~/myperl/man to the MANPATH environment
+ variable and also tell your perl programs to look into ~/myperl/lib,
+ e.g. by including
+
+ use lib "$ENV{HOME}/myperl/lib";
+
+ or setting the PERL5LIB environment variable.
+
+ Another thing you should bear in mind is that the UNINST parameter
+ should never be set if you are not root.
+
+ 6) How to get a package, unwrap it, and make a change before building
+ it?
+
+ look Sybase::Sybperl
+
+ 7) I installed a Bundle and had a couple of fails. When I retried,
+ everything resolved nicely. Can this be fixed to work on first try?
+
+ The reason for this is that CPAN does not know the dependencies of
+ all modules when it starts out. To decide about the additional items
+ to install, it just uses data found in the generated Makefile. An
+ undetected missing piece breaks the process. But it may well be that
+ your Bundle installs some prerequisite later than some depending
+ item and thus your second try is able to resolve everything. Please
+ note, CPAN.pm does not know the dependency tree in advance and
+ cannot sort the queue of things to install in a topologically
+ correct order. It resolves perfectly well IFF all modules declare
+ the prerequisites correctly with the PREREQ_PM attribute to
+ MakeMaker. For bundles which fail and you need to install often, it
+ is recommended sort the Bundle definition file manually. It is
+ planned to improve the metadata situation for dependencies on CPAN
+ in general, but this will still take some time.
+
+ 8) In our intranet we have many modules for internal use. How can I
+ integrate these modules with CPAN.pm but without uploading the
+ modules to CPAN?
+
+ Have a look at the CPAN::Site module.
+
+ 9) When I run CPAN's shell, I get error msg about line 1 to 4, setting
+ meta input/output via the /etc/inputrc file.
+
+ Some versions of readline are picky about capitalization in the
+ /etc/inputrc file and specifically RedHat 6.2 comes with a
+ /etc/inputrc that contains the word "on" in lowercase. Change the
+ occurrences of "on" to "On" and the bug should disappear.
+
+ 10) Some authors have strange characters in their names.
+
+ Internally CPAN.pm uses the UTF-8 charset. If your terminal is
+ expecting ISO-8859-1 charset, a converter can be activated by
+ setting term_is_latin to a true value in your config file. One way
+ of doing so would be
+
+ cpan> ! $CPAN::Config->{term_is_latin}=1
+
+ Extended support for converters will be made available as soon as
+ perl becomes stable with regard to charset issues.
+
+BUGS
+ We should give coverage for all of the CPAN and not just the PAUSE part,
+ right? In this discussion CPAN and PAUSE have become equal -- but they
+ are not. PAUSE is authors/, modules/ and scripts/. CPAN is PAUSE plus
+ the clpa/, doc/, misc/, ports/, and src/.
+
+ Future development should be directed towards a better integration of
+ the other parts.
+
+ If a Makefile.PL requires special customization of libraries, prompts
+ the user for special input, etc. then you may find CPAN is not able to
+ build the distribution. In that case, you should attempt the traditional
+ method of building a Perl module package from a shell.
+
+AUTHOR
+ Andreas Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
+
+TRANSLATIONS
+ Kawai,Takanori provides a Japanese translation of this manpage at
+ http://member.nifty.ne.jp/hippo2000/perltips/CPAN.htm
+
+SEE ALSO
+ perl(1), CPAN::Nox(3)
+
#!./perl
-BEGIN {
- chdir 't' if -d 't';
- @INC = '../lib';
-}
-
+use lib "BUNDLE";
use Test::More tests => 8;
# use this first to $CPAN::term can be undefined
use_ok( 'CPAN' );
+$CPAN::Suppress_readline = $CPAN::Suppress_readline; # silence
+$CPAN::META = $CPAN::META; # silence
+$CPAN::term = $CPAN::term; # silence
undef $CPAN::term;
# this kicks off all the magic
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
BEGIN {
- chdir 't' if -d 't';
- @INC = '../lib';
-}
-
-BEGIN {
print "1..1\n";
}
use strict;
}
use strict;
+use lib "BUNDLE";
use Test::More tests => 6;
use_ok( 'CPAN::FirstTime' );
# -*- Mode: cperl; coding: utf-8; -*-
-BEGIN {
- chdir 't' if -d 't';
- @INC = '../lib';
-}
-
use strict;
use CPAN;
use vars qw($D $N);
pod/podchecker
pod/podselect
utils/c2ph # link = utils/pstruct
+utils/cpan
utils/dprofpp
utils/enc2xs
utils/h2ph
--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+# $Id: cpan,v 1.3 2002/08/30 08:55:15 k Exp $
+use strict;
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+cpan - easily interact with CPAN from the command line
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+ # with arguments, installs specified modules
+ cpan module_name [ module_name ... ]
+
+ # with switches, installs modules with extra behavior
+ cpan [-cimt] module_name [ module_name ... ]
+
+ # without arguments, starts CPAN shell
+ cpan
+
+ # without arguments, but some switches
+ cpan [-ahrv]
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+This script provides a command interface (not a shell) to CPAN.pm.
+
+=head2 Meta Options
+
+These options are mutually exclusive, and the script processes
+them in this order: [ahvr]. Once the script finds one, it ignores
+the others, and then exits after it finishes the task. The script
+ignores any other command line options.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item -a
+
+Creates the CPAN.pm autobundle with CPAN::Shell->autobundle.
+
+=item -h
+
+Prints a help message.
+
+=item -r
+
+Recompiles dynamically loaded modules with CPAN::Shell->recompile.
+
+=item -v
+
+Print the script version and CPAN.pm version.
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Module options
+
+These options are mutually exclusive, and the script processes
+them in alphabetical order.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item c
+
+Runs a `make clean` in the specified module's directories.
+
+=item i
+
+Installed the specified modules.
+
+=item m
+
+Makes the specified modules.
+
+=item t
+
+Runs a `make test` on the specified modules.
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Examples
+
+ # print a help message
+ cpan -h
+
+ # print the version numbers
+ cpan -v
+
+ # create an autobundle
+ cpan -a
+
+ # recompile modules
+ cpan -r
+
+ # install modules
+ cpan -i Netscape::Booksmarks Business::ISBN
+
+=head1 TO DO
+
+* add options for other CPAN::Shell functions
+autobundle, clean, make, recompile, test
+
+=head1 BUGS
+
+* none noted
+
+=head1 SEE ALSO
+
+Most behaviour, including environment variables and configuration,
+comes directly from CPAN.pm.
+
+=head1 AUTHOR
+
+brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>
+
+=cut
+
+use CPAN ();
+use Getopt::Std;
+
+my $VERSION =
+ sprintf "%d.%02d", q$Revision: 1.3 $ =~ m/ (\d+) \. (\d+) /xg;
+
+my $Default = 'default';
+
+my $META_OPTIONS = 'ahvr';
+
+my %CPAN_METHODS = (
+ $Default => 'install',
+ 'c' => 'clean',
+ 'i' => 'install',
+ 'm' => 'make',
+ 't' => 'test',
+ );
+
+my @cpan_options = grep { $_ ne $Default } sort keys %CPAN_METHODS;
+
+my $arg_count = @ARGV;
+my %options;
+
+Getopt::Std::getopts(
+ join( '', @cpan_options, $META_OPTIONS ), \%options );
+
+if( $options{h} )
+ {
+ print STDERR "Printing help message -- ignoring other arguments\n"
+ if $arg_count > 1;
+
+ print STDERR "Use perldoc to read the documentation\n";
+ exit 0;
+ }
+elsif( $options{v} )
+ {
+ print STDERR "Printing version message -- ignoring other arguments\n"
+
+ if $arg_count > 1;
+
+ my $CPAN_VERSION = CPAN->VERSION;
+ print STDERR "cpan script version $VERSION\n" .
+ "CPAN.pm version $CPAN_VERSION\n";
+ exit 0;
+ }
+elsif( $options{a} )
+ {
+ print "Creating autobundle in ", $CPAN::Config->{cpan_home},
+ "/Bundle\n";
+ print STDERR "Creating autobundle -- ignoring other arguments\n"
+ if $arg_count > 1;
+
+ CPAN::Shell->autobundle;
+ exit 0;
+ }
+elsif( $options{r} )
+ {
+ print STDERR "Creating autobundle -- ignoring other arguments\n"
+ if $arg_count > 1;
+
+ CPAN::Shell->recompile;
+ }
+else
+ {
+ my $switch = '';
+
+ foreach my $option ( @cpan_options )
+ {
+ next unless $options{$option};
+ $switch = $option;
+ last;
+ }
+
+ if( not $switch and @ARGV ) { $switch = $Default; }
+ elsif( not $switch and not @ARGV ) { CPAN::shell(); exit 0; }
+ elsif( $switch and not @ARGV )
+ { die "Nothing to $CPAN_METHODS{$switch}!\n"; }
+
+ my $method = $CPAN_METHODS{$switch};
+ die "CPAN.pm cannot $method!\n" unless CPAN::Shell->can( $method );
+
+ foreach my $arg ( @ARGV )
+ {
+ CPAN::Shell->$method( $arg );
+ }
+ }
+
+1;
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