[tlbuild] tlmgr/install-tl bug: running out of disk space

Ken Moffat zarniwhoop at ntlworld.com
Wed Mar 16 22:51:31 CET 2022


On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 03:21:38PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Ken - indeed, looks like our references to the name "Net::LWP" are
> all erroneous. It is just the "LWP" bundle that you are already aware of
> (https://metacpan.org/pod/LWP). I'll update the docs I can find.
> 
> I'm not sure if LWP is always installed all-or-nothing (that's how I do
> it), but just in case, I don't believe we don't use anything unusual
> from it. Basically just LWP::UserAgent, which probably ends up pulling
> in everything else as dependencies. 
> 
> Thanks for catching this. -k

Karl, thanks.

As a minimalist, I normally build perl modules from source with only
the minimal required dependencies.  But checking, LWP/UserAgent.pm
was indeed installed by libwww-perl (the tarball name for LWP).

ĸen
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