[ILUG] Perl & CPAN

[Justin Mason]

Donncha O Caoimh said:

> Trying to "install Bundle::LWP" using CPAN but it tries to download
> perl-5.6.0.tar.gz which is a large 5MB or so file that I have no
> intention of installing. Is there any way of telling it to forget that
> file and just accept whatever perl is installed?

I think

	set prerequisites_policy ignore
	force install URI::URL
	force install LWP

will do it without going absurdly crazy. Alternatively cd
~/.cpan/build/Package-Name-Ver and do "make install" by hand.

It's a pain in the arse, isn't it?  I've reported it as a bug to GBARR
(maintainer of IO::Socket), but he reckons it's a CPAN.pm bug.

--j.