[Catalyst] bad luck with shadowcat install -- something wrong with cpan? was Re: [Dbix-class] How to Install Catalyst on windows

[Thomas Hartman]

I would like to incorporate the shadowcat installer into my soon-to-be
google project hosted PimpMyCat, which intends a "one shot" install of
a sane catalyst environment, including as many demo sites as possible
-- slick marketing intended to be appeal to the masses :)

But I had bad luck with shadowcat install today.

Does this seem to be something wrong with CPAN ftp server? Or a
problem with the shadowcat install script?

On a fresh locally-installed perl with cpan updated and module build installed:

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thartman at linodewhyou:~/nbarter/install$ which perl
/home/thartman/whyou_external_dependencies/current/localperl/bin/perl
thartman at linodewhyou:~/nbarter/install$ cat install-catalyst.sh
#!/bin/bash
[[ ! -f cat-install ]] && wget
http://www.shadowcatsystems.co.uk/static/cat-install && chmod u+x
cat-install

echo running cat-install using `which perl`
FTP_PASSIVE=1
perl cat-install
thartman at linodewhyou:~/nbarter/install$



thartman at linodewhyou:~/nbarter/install$ ./install-catalyst.sh
running cat-install using
/home/thartman/whyou_external_dependencies/current/localperl/bin/perl
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /home/thartman/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:54:20 GMT
Running install for module Catalyst
Running make for A/AG/AGRUNDMA/Catalyst-5.57.tar.gz
LWP not available
CPAN: Net::FTP loaded ok
Fetching with Net::FTP:
  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AG/AGRUNDMA/Catalyst-5.57.tar.gz
Couldn't fetch Catalyst-5.57.tar.gz from ftp.perl.org

Trying with "/usr/bin/lynx -source" to get
    ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AG/AGRUNDMA/Catalyst-5.57.tar.gz

Looking up ftp.perl.org
Making FTP connection to ftp.perl.org
Looking up 195.219.14.24:59283
Making FTP data connection to 195.219.14.24:59283
Looking up ftp.perl.org
Making FTP connection to ftp.perl.org
Can't Access `ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AG/AGRUNDMA/Catalyst-5.57.tar.gz'
Alert!: Unable to access document.

lynx: Can't access startfile

System call "/usr/bin/lynx -source
"ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AG/AGRUNDMA/Catalyst-5.57.tar.gz"
 > /home/thartman/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AG/AGRUNDMA/Catalyst-5.57.tar"
returned status 1 (wstat 256)
Warning: expected file
[/home/thartman/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AG/AGRUNDMA/Catalyst-5.57.tar.gz]
doesn't exist

Trying with "/usr/bin/wget -O -" to get
    ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AG/AGRUNDMA/Catalyst-5.57.tar.gz
--13:32:31--  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AG/AGRUNDMA/Catalyst-5.57.tar.gz
           => `-'
Resolving ftp.perl.org... 195.219.14.24, 64.186.240.114
Connecting to ftp.perl.org|195.219.14.24|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AG/AGRUNDMA ... done.
==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR Catalyst-5.57.tar.gz ...
No such file `Catalyst-5.57.tar.gz'.


System call "/usr/bin/wget -O -
"ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AG/AGRUNDMA/Catalyst-5.57.tar.gz"
 > /home/thartman/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AG/AGRUNDMA/Catalyst-5.57.tar"
returned status 1 (wstat 256)
Warning: expected file
[/home/thartman/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AG/AGRUNDMA/Catalyst-5.57.tar.gz]
doesn't exist
Issuing "/usr/bin/ftp -n"
Local directory now /home/thartman/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AG/AGRUNDMA
Catalyst-5.57.tar.gz: No such file or directory
Bad luck... Still failed!
Can't access URL
ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AG/AGRUNDMA/Catalyst-5.57.tar.gz.

Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file () are valid.
The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/'

Could not fetch authors/id/A/AG/AGRUNDMA/Catalyst-5.57.tar.gz
Giving up on '/home/thartman/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AG/AGRUNDMA/Catalyst-5.57.tar.gz'
Note: Current database in memory was generated on Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:54:20 GMT

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