Mailing List Archive: [Bug 3394] perl -MCPAN -e shell INSTALL method fails where only passive FTP is available

http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3394

spamassassin-contrib@msquadrat.de changed:

What |Removed |Added
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Severity|normal |enhancement
Priority|P3 |P5
Platform|Other |All

------- Additional Comments From spamassassin-contrib@msquadrat.de 2004-05-15 16:08 -------
"Unfortunately" does CPAN support many different ways to fetch stuff. wget is
just the fallback (besides ncftp and the plain ftp client), per default it
uses (AFAIK) libwww-perl, which (again AFAIK) determines the need for passive
FTP automagically. I don't think we should document for each possibility. We
could write "look at the CPAN man page if it doesn't work" but I think that
should be obvious...

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------- Additional Comments From felicity@kluge.net 2004-05-15 20:33 -------
Subject: Re: perl -MCPAN -e shell INSTALL method fails where only passive FTP is available

On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 04:08:36PM -0700, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.spamassassin.org wrote:
> could write "look at the CPAN man page if it doesn't work" but I think that
> should be obvious...

I'd say we should at least point to the CPAN docs and maybe put in a
line or two about what CPAN is. I think we can expect people who install
SpamAssassin to have some technical ability, but if they're new to Perl,
they may not know about CPAN etc.

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