[gentoo-dev] g-cpan.pl doesn't appear to be working

[gentoo-dev] g-cpan.pl doesn't appear to be working

[Alan]

I recently submitted a perl module ebuild to bugzilla for
Finance::YahooQuote and was informed that portage can already
dynamically create ebuilds for perl modules via g-cpan.pl.  *Very cool*.

However, when I ran it, it appears to want to install perl itself from
cpan!

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phoenix alan # g-cpan.pl Finance::YahooQuote
mkdir /tmp/perl-modules_3528
mkdir /tmp/perl-modules_3528/dev-perl
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Mon, 27 Jan 2003 07:49:14 GMT
************************************************************************
*
*
*  Need to create ebuild for 'Finance::YahooQuote': finance
*
*
************************************************************************
Running make for E/ED/EDD/finance-yahooquote_0.18.tar.gz
Checksum for /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/E/ED/EDD/finance-yahooquote_0.18.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache /root/.cpan/build for sizes
Finance-YahooQuote-0.18/
[snip list of files]
Finance-YahooQuote-0.18/t/02simple.t
Removing previously used /root/.cpan/build/Finance-YahooQuote-0.18

  CPAN.pm: Going to build E/ED/EDD/finance-yahooquote_0.18.tar.gz

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Warning: prerequisite HTML::Parser 2.2 not found.
Writing Makefile for Finance::YahooQuote
---- Unsatisfied dependencies detected during [E/ED/EDD/finance-yahooquote_0.18.tar.gz] -----
    HTML::Parser
  Ignoring dependencies on modules HTML::Parser
cp YahooQuote.pm blib/lib/Finance/YahooQuote.pm
cp yahooquote blib/script/yahooquote
/usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::MY" -e "MY->fixin(shift)" blib/script/yahooquote
Manifying blib/man1/yahooquote.1
Manifying blib/man3/Finance::YahooQuote.3pm
  /usr/bin/make -j2 -- OK
************************************************************************
*
*
*  Ebuild already exists for 'LWP::UserAgent': libwww-perl
*
*
************************************************************************
************************************************************************
*
*
*  Need to create ebuild for 'Text::ParseWords': perl
*
*
************************************************************************
Running make for J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz

The most recent version "3.21" of the module "Text::ParseWords"
comes with the current version of perl (5.8.0).
I'll build that only if you ask for something like
    force install Text::ParseWords
or
    install J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz
Use of uninitialized value in open at /usr/bin/g-cpan.pl line 249.
Can't open 'J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz': No such file or directory at /usr/bin/g-cpan.pl line 249.
phoenix alan # 
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It seems that it is creating a list of dependancies and because one is 
installed with perl, it tries to go and build that. 

The ebuild that I created worked fine with no dependancies btw, though on
another machine (debian) installing from CPAN it wanted Spreadsheet::ParseExcel 
and IO::Scalar, which I guess are installed already.

Any ideas?  

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Re: [gentoo-dev] g-cpan.pl doesn't appear to be working

[J Robert Ray]

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Alan wrote:
| ************************************************************************
| *
| *
| *  Need to create ebuild for 'Text::ParseWords': perl
| *
| *
| ************************************************************************
| Running make for J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz
|
| The most recent version "3.21" of the module "Text::ParseWords"
| comes with the current version of perl (5.8.0).
| I'll build that only if you ask for something like
|     force install Text::ParseWords
| or
|     install J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz
| Use of uninitialized value in open at /usr/bin/g-cpan.pl line 249.
| Can't open 'J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz': No such file or directory at
/usr/bin/g-cpan.pl line 249.
| phoenix alan #
| ----------------------------------

This looks like a situation that g-cpan doesn't know how to handle yet.
~ Do you have perl 5.8.0 installed or no?

Can you please submit a bug report about this and assign it to me?
<jrray@gentoo.org>  Thanks.

- - Robert

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Re: [gentoo-dev] g-cpan.pl doesn't appear to be working

[Alan]

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On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:29:37PM -0800, J Robert Ray wrote:
> Alan wrote:
> | ************************************************************************
> | *
> | *
> | *  Need to create ebuild for 'Text::ParseWords': perl
> | *
> | *
> | ************************************************************************
> | Running make for J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz
> |
> | The most recent version "3.21" of the module "Text::ParseWords"
> | comes with the current version of perl (5.8.0).
> | I'll build that only if you ask for something like
> |     force install Text::ParseWords
> | or
> |     install J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz
> | Use of uninitialized value in open at /usr/bin/g-cpan.pl line 249.
> | Can't open 'J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz': No such file or directory at
> /usr/bin/g-cpan.pl line 249.
> | phoenix alan #
> | ----------------------------------
> 
> This looks like a situation that g-cpan doesn't know how to handle yet.
> ~ Do you have perl 5.8.0 installed or no?

Yup, I have 5.8.0-r9 installed and working.

> Can you please submit a bug report about this and assign it to me?
> <jrray@gentoo.org>  Thanks.

Done, bug 14679 posted.  
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Re: [gentoo-dev] g-cpan.pl doesn't appear to be working

[J Robert Ray]

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Alan wrote:

|On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:29:37PM -0800, J Robert Ray wrote:
|
|>Alan wrote:
|>| ************************************************************************
|>| *
|>| *
|>| *  Need to create ebuild for 'Text::ParseWords': perl
|>| *
|>| *
|>| ************************************************************************
|>| Running make for J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz
|>|
|>| The most recent version "3.21" of the module "Text::ParseWords"
|>| comes with the current version of perl (5.8.0).
|>| I'll build that only if you ask for something like
|>|     force install Text::ParseWords
|>| or
|>|     install J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz
|>| Use of uninitialized value in open at /usr/bin/g-cpan.pl line 249.
|>| Can't open 'J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz': No such file or directory at
|>/usr/bin/g-cpan.pl line 249.
|>| phoenix alan #
|>| ----------------------------------
|>
|>This looks like a situation that g-cpan doesn't know how to handle yet.
|>~ Do you have perl 5.8.0 installed or no?
|
|
|Yup, I have 5.8.0-r9 installed and working.
|
|>Can you please submit a bug report about this and assign it to me?
|><jrray@gentoo.org>  Thanks.
|
|
|Done, bug 14679 posted.  

Thanks.  Consider using CPAN to install this module in the meantime.

# perl -MCPAN -e shell

then

install Finance::YahooQuote

- - Robert


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Re: [gentoo-dev] g-cpan.pl doesn't appear to be working

[Tony Clark]

On Wednesday 29 January 2003 09.26, J Robert Ray wrote:
14679 posted.
>
> Thanks.  Consider using CPAN to install this module in the meantime.
>
> # perl -MCPAN -e shell
>
> then
>

This is not really the point, a number of new apps are all held up because of 
the new perl dependency management _MAYBE_ tool :(  Don't get me wrong, I'm 
all for it when it works, in the meantime life should go on and new things 
should be put in dev-perl and new applications should be available.  Then 
again, I guess Gentoo could just solve the problem and become another faster 
Debian.  The current situtation really sucks IMHO.

tony


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Re: [gentoo-dev] g-cpan.pl doesn't appear to be working

[J Robert Ray]

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Tony Clark wrote:
| On Wednesday 29 January 2003 09.26, J Robert Ray wrote:
| 14679 posted.
|
|>Thanks.  Consider using CPAN to install this module in the meantime.
|
| This is not really the point, a number of new apps are all held up
because of
| the new perl dependency management _MAYBE_ tool :(  Don't get me
wrong, I'm
| all for it when it works, in the meantime life should go on and new
things
| should be put in dev-perl and new applications should be available.  Then
| again, I guess Gentoo could just solve the problem and become another
faster
| Debian.  The current situtation really sucks IMHO.

Please bear with us, a more robust solution will be implemented.  The
one thing we don't want to do is make ebuilds for every perl module in
CPAN.  In this case we may add an ebuild to the tree to install the
package that g-cpan can't handle.

- - Robert


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