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Hijacked?? (Score:1)

by sky (1411)

What do you mean hijacked? When I tell CPAN.pm to install it it tries to install D/DJ/DJBERG/Set-String-0.03.tar.gz and I am doing it off FUNET.

I suspect you are talking about to search.cpan.org which has a long standing problem in that it totally ignores the PAUSE ownership/security information and just displays the latest upload of a given module. CPAN allows multiple uploads of a given module, but the official package list which the CPAN shell uses will only point to one (which must be one of the owners

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- Re:Hijacked?? (Score:2)
  
  by djberg96 (2603) on 2004.11.27 17:27 (#36355) Journal
  
  Ah, ok. I wasn't sure if it was a PAUSE issue or search.cpan.org issue. Still highly annoying, but thanks.
  
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