[Chicago-talk] Help CPAN on FreeBSD Perl 5.8.8

[Ed Pigg]

Hi all,

I've got a FreeBSD server that I've been using for the past year for  
development purposes.

FreeBSD 6.0 release

It started with Perl 5.8.7 and I've operated for a year and a half  
with no problems. I use CPAN for updating the modules rather than the  
ports collection. Last week I needed to upgrade some other packages  
on the server and Perl 5.8.8 was installed in the process. I have  
updated the package db and ran the perl-after-upgrade program as  
documented.

Now CPAN (1.90) is throwing errors and I'm having a hard time trying  
to figure out how to remedy them.

Here's a typical error message from an install command

cpan[2]> install CPAN
Running install for module 'CPAN'
Running make for A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.91.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.44)
Catching error: 'Can't locate object method "prefs_lookup" via  
package "CPAN::HandleConfig" at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN.pm  
line 6564.
' at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 274
         CPAN::shell() called at -e line 1


I've looked at CPAN::HandleConfig and there is no "prefs_lookup" sub  
in the module. I thought that I'd reinstall CPAN from the ports  
collection, but it doesn't appear to be there. Just CPANPLUS. Should  
I fetch CPAN from CPAN and install manually? Is this a change from  
5.8.7 to 5.8.8?

Thx


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