RE: CPAN & Module gripes (was Re: Ever Wonder...?)
Otis Gospodnetic (otis@dominis.com)
Sat, 10 Apr 1999 23:05:52 -0400
> and I can't for the life of me find URI. find / -name URL.pm doesn't
> find it. CPAN is no help.
> m /URI/
> shows (among others)
....
span> i /WHATEVER/ works for me.
i /URI/ yields, among other things:
Module URI (GAAS/URI-1.02.tar.gz)
> Questions unanswered:
> 1. Where to find URI
see above.
> 2. How to change the urllist permanently. rm -rf /root/.cpan
> doesn't wipe out the old values, even...
I believe there is CPAN/Config.pm file where this may be stored....
> Whimper... maybe I should just go download an RPM with this stuff
> already compiled. RPM, come to think of it, is a culture just
> like CPAN. The CPAN community might look at how RPM's are indexed
> and dependency-checked to see if they're missing any good ideas.
maybe - don't know enough about RPMs although I know that I cannot download
an RPM from a web server (http://..... .rpm) but only an FTP one (ftp:// ...
.rpm) and most RPMs seem to be distributed via the former. I never
understood that.
Otis