CentOS - May 2005 - clamav-0.85

From: Dag Wieers [mailto:dag at wieers.com]
> 
> On Mon, 16 May 2005, Maciej Zenczykowski wrote:
> 
> > > Well, I could, but why would you use ncftp when lftp is actually
more
> > > feature complete and much better overall. (ncftp is not open
source
> > > actually).
> > > 
> > > If there's a good reason you might convince me to do the
extra work.
> > 
> > Well, this came up because perl CPAN wants to use ncftpget to download
> > files, and it couldn't find it on my system... does lftp contain a
> > functional equivalent?
> 
> It includes lftpget. It seems strange to me that CPAN is using ncftp and
> does not look for any alternatives. You may have to look into that first.
I seem to remember that CPAN prompts for your ftp client when you do the
initialization.  You may want to go through that process again and specify
lftpget when it asks.

    $ perl -MCPAN -e shell
    cpan> o conf init

Bowie

Bowie Bailey wrote:
> I seem to remember that CPAN prompts for your ftp client when you do the
> initialization.  You may want to go through that process again and specify
> lftpget when it asks.
> 
>     $ perl -MCPAN -e shell
>     cpan> o conf init
I believe CPAN is going to use other methods of retrieving data, if you 
have programs available.  One of them is wget that works for both FPT 
and HTTP.  It should detect and use it if present.

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