Re: Old CPAN namespace registration for AFS

Norbert Gruener

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Sep 20, 2007, 1:13:41 AM9/20/07

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Hi Steffen,

On Mon, Sep 17 2007, mod...@perl.org wrote:
> Dear CPAN contributor,
>
> we, the PAUSE administrators, are trying to tidy up the CPAN Modules
> List and are looking at namespaces that have been registered without
> ever being uploaded to PAUSE.

this is a very good intention :-))

> You have registered the namespace
>
> AFS
>
> in the CPAN Modules List, but according to our databases, you have not
> uploaded any module with that name. This may be an error on our part,
> a problem with the PAUSE indexer, or you actually haven't uploaded an
> implementation.

It is correct that I have registered the namespace "AFS" and I am
using it since 2002. I have uploaded the following versions

pause99_add_uri_httpupload [AFS-2.00.tar.gz] 2 Jul 2002
pause99_add_uri_httpupload [AFS-2.01.tar.gz] 8 Jul 2002
pause99_add_uri_httpupload [AFS-2.03.tar.gz] 15 Oct 2002
pause99_add_uri_httpupload [AFS-2.2.0.tar.gz] 3 Feb 2004
pause99_add_uri_httpupload [AFS-2.2.1.tar.gz] 9 Mar 2004
pause99_add_uri_httpupload [AFS-2.2.2.tar.gz] 6 May 2004
pause99_add_uri_httpupload [AFS-2.2.3.tar.gz] 17 Feb 2005
pause99_add_uri_httpupload [AFS-2.4.0.tar.gz] 20 Feb 2006

And at the moment I am working on version "2.4.1".

As attachment you can find the latest email from my CPAN uploads.

> In any case, we kindly ask you to contact us via the mod...@perl.org
> mailing list so we can sort out the issue. This is particularly
> important if you think you are receiving this mail in error!

Please let me know if there is anything I can do to support you in
sorting out this issue.

Cheers,

Norbert
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pause-upload

Steffen Mueller

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Sep 20, 2007, 11:21:21 AM9/20/07

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Hi Norbert,

Norbert Gruener wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17 2007, mod...@perl.org wrote:
>> You have registered the namespace
>>
>> AFS
>

> It is correct that I have registered the namespace "AFS" and I am
> using it since 2002. I have uploaded the following versions
>

[...]

> pause99_add_uri_httpupload [AFS-2.4.0.tar.gz] 20 Feb 2006

The module's there and the registration is valid. It'll stay. But it
seems like there was some trouble for the PAUSE indexer with the AFS module:

cpan[1]> i /AFS/
[...]
Distribution NOG/AFS-2.4.0.tar.gz
[..]
Module AFS (N/A)
Module AFS::ACL (NOG/AFS-2.4.0.tar.gz)
[...]

I'll trigger a reindexing of the distribution and if that doesn't help
(i.e. the above command shows a distribution for the module) within a
reasonable time frame of the order of a week, please contact
mod...@perl.org again and we have to find a different way of dealing
with this.

Thanks for getting back to us quickly.

Best regards,
Steffen

Norbert Gruener

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Oct 11, 2007, 9:21:19 AM10/11/07

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Hi Steffen,

has this problem been solved or is there anything I can do about?

Steffen Mueller

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Oct 25, 2007, 4:57:09 AM10/25/07

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Hi Norbert,

Norbert Gruener nog-at-MPA-Garching.MPG.DE |newsgroups5| wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 11 2007, Norbert Gruener wrote:
[...]
>>> I'll trigger a reindexing of the distribution and if that doesn't help
>>> (i.e. the above command shows a distribution for the module) within a
>>> reasonable time frame of the order of a week, please contact
>>> mod...@perl.org again and we have to find a different way of dealing
>>> with this.
>> has this problem been solved or is there anything I can do about?
>

> Any news on this subject ?

Unfortunately, no. I'm sorry for not replying to your earlier mail. I
read it, wanted to reply, forgot it, lost it. Sorry.

However, I still get this:

cpan[1]> i /AFS/
[...]
Distribution NOG/AFS-2.4.0.tar.gz

[...]
Module AFS (N/A)

and

cpan[2]> install AFS
Running install for module 'AFS'

The module AFS isn't available on CPAN.

Either the module has not yet been uploaded to CPAN, or it is
temporary unavailable. Please contact the author to find out
more about the status. Try 'i AFS'.

I'm not sure what causes this. Andreas, do you have any further insight?

Best regards,
Steffen

Norbert Gruener

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Oct 25, 2007, 4:05:56 AM10/25/07

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On Thu, Oct 11 2007, Norbert Gruener wrote:

Any news on this subject ?

Cheers,

Norbert Gruener

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Oct 25, 2007, 6:31:54 AM10/25/07

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I am afraid these problems are caused by the way I have specified my
"VERSION" variable. Could this be the reason for it?

Andreas J. Koenig

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Oct 25, 2007, 4:41:57 PM10/25/07

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>>>>> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:31:54 +0200, Norbert Gruener <n...@MPA-Garching.MPG.DE> said:

>> I'm not sure what causes this. Andreas, do you have any further insight?

> I am afraid these problems are caused by the way I have specified my
> "VERSION" variable. Could this be the reason for it?

I see nothing wrong in that (yet). I'll have to dig deeper.

--
andreas

Andreas J. Koenig

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Oct 25, 2007, 11:51:34 PM10/25/07

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Seems like it's fixed by mere reindexing. You uploaded a
C<$VERSION='2.4.0'> line way before PAUSE understood that notation.
When I now do this

cpan[4]> m AFS
Module id = AFS
DESCRIPTION AFS Distributed File System interface
CPAN_USERID NOG (Norbert Gruener <n...@MPA-Garching.MPG.DE>)
CPAN_VERSION 2.004000
CPAN_FILE N/NO/NOG/AFS-2.4.0.tar.gz
DSLIP_STATUS RdcOp (released,developer,C,object-oriented,Standard-Perl)
INST_FILE (not installed)

I get the result I'd expect.

--
andreas

Norbert Gruener

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Oct 29, 2007, 3:47:08 AM10/29/07

to Andreas J. Koenig, mod...@perl.org, Steffen Mueller

Hallo Andreas,

danke für Deine Hilfe :-)) Thank you for your help :-))

Liebe GrüÂße, Cheers,