Friday 13th January 2006
Psst, Anyone Want a Ticket for the Derby?
Turns out the brother-in-law doesn't want the derby ticket, so I've been trying to get rid of it. Nobody seems interested. £36.50 for a football match is a bit much I suppose, especially if you're not a "hardcore" fan.
MCIVTA
Seems I wasn't the only one thinking there were too many stats in MCIVTA recently, judging by the spoof stats article in MCIVTA 1189.
Local Packages
Updated perl-Test-Prereq to 1.030
Updated perl-HTML-!SimpleLinkExtor to 1.12
A curiosity for perl-Test-Prereq is that I can only get it to build on Fedora Core 2 if I use the root account - the test suite calls up CPAN and it wants to access /root/.cpan, which only root can do. I'm not seeing this issue on Red Hat 9, any other Fedora Core, or Red Hat Enterprise 3/4. Wierd. Perhaps I'm missing a build requirement?
I also got fed up of the changelog in Brian's perl packages always being one version behind - it's clearly an issue with his release process. So I raised CPAN RT#17045 about it.