Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell;" fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header"

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Stephan Petersen wrote:

> Hi Greg,
>
> thanks for your reply.
>
> > Probably your file got damaged, I think.
>
> yes, but reproducably for all CPAN mirrors...
>
> Testing 02packages.details.txt.gz with gzip -t reports:
> gzip: 02packages.details.txt.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated
>
> Same with 03modlist.data.gz.
>
> Stephan

Stephan,

I don't recall -- did you attach the output of "cygcheck -svr" at some
point (if so, just point to it in the archives, no need to repost)?  My
guess is that this may be a textmode vs. binmode issue.  Try making your
home directory a binmode mount, or setting PERLIO=crlf and see if that
helps with CPAN.
	Igor
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