CPAN-1.9301 can't clean bootstrap .cpan

[Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>]

There's something very wrong with the current CPAN.pm (1.9301). If I remove
my ~/.cpan, and start from a clean install, then after answering "yes" to
whether I'd like to configure everything automatically, I see:

commit: wrote '/filer/home/nick/Sandpit/snap5.8.x-34690/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN/Config.pm'
Terminal does not support AddHistory.

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9301)
ReadLine support available (maybe install Bundle::CPAN or Bundle::CPANxxl?)

cpan[1]> r
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.19)
Your urllist is empty! The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist
push ftp://myurl/'

Could not fetch authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Your urllist is empty! The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist
push ftp://myurl/'

Could not fetch modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Your urllist is empty! The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist
push ftp://myurl/'

Could not fetch modules/03modlist.data.gz
Going to write /filer/home/nick/.cpan/Metadata
All modules are up to date for /./

$ find ~/.cpan | xargs ls -al
-rw-r--r--  1 nick  nick  132 Oct 31 18:01 /filer/home/nick/.cpan/Metadata

/filer/home/nick/.cpan:
total 16
drwxr-xr-x   3 nick  nick   512 Oct 31 18:04 .
drwxr-xr-x  72 nick  nick  9728 Oct 31 18:03 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 nick  nick   132 Oct 31 18:01 Metadata
drwxr-xr-x   4 nick  nick   512 Oct 31 18:01 sources

/filer/home/nick/.cpan/sources:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  4 nick  nick  512 Oct 31 18:01 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 nick  nick  512 Oct 31 18:04 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 nick  nick  512 Oct 31 18:01 authors
drwxr-xr-x  2 nick  nick  512 Oct 31 18:01 modules

/filer/home/nick/.cpan/sources/authors:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x  2 nick  nick  512 Oct 31 18:01 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 nick  nick  512 Oct 31 18:01 ..

/filer/home/nick/.cpan/sources/modules:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x  2 nick  nick  512 Oct 31 18:01 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 nick  nick  512 Oct 31 18:01 ..


Given that I'd like everything in place for 5.8.9-RC1 by, um, the weekend,
if it's not trivial to fix reliably, then I'm going to have to revert back
to 1.9205

Sorry for the rather late bug report, but I'd only just tried this on a
clean machine, and hence only just realised the problem. I've replicated
it on anther machine on anther OS (in a different country), so I don't think
that it's anything "special" on my part.

Nicholas Clark

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