From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 12 15:32:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 748A7106566B for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:32:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@vizion2000.net) Received: from dns1.vizion2000.net (77-99-36-42.cable.ubr04.chap.blueyonder.co.uk [77.99.36.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 349878FC23 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:32:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@vizion2000.net) Received: from dns1.vizion2000.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dns1.vizion2000.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF56D1CC6B for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:35:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by dns1.vizion2000.net (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m6CFZFRe037103 for freebsd-perl@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:35:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@vizion2000.net) X-Authentication-Warning: dns1.vizion2000.net: david set sender to david@vizion2000.net using -f From: David Southwell Organization: Voice and Vision To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:35:15 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807120835.15751.david@vizion2000.net> Subject: Adjusting Cpan on upgrade from 6.1 to 6.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: maintainer of a number of perl-related ports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:32:09 -0000 Having upgraded freebsd 6.1 to 6.3 I find the following errors from the cpan shell. Having got errors I did the following cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8 make clean make configure make make deinstall make reinstall But still got the errors shown below which all seem to be around entries found in the old database which shows a generation date prior to the above reinstall. It seems the cpan Metadata has not been updated. What are the correct steps to follow: __________________________________________________________ cpan> r CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /usr/cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:02:51 GMT CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok Fetching with LWP: ftp://cpan.calvin.edu/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz LWP failed with code[500] message[Errno architecture (amd64-freebsd-6.1-release) does not match executable architecture (amd64-freebsd-6.3-stable) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm line 11. Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/IO/Socket.pm line 17. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/IO/Socket.pm line 17. Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Net/FTP.pm line 18. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Net/FTP.pm line 18. Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/LWP/Protocol/ftp.pm line 21. ] Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://cpan.calvin.edu/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Can't locate object method "new" via package "Net::FTP" at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 2250. ______________________________________ Thanks in advance David