----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Randy Kobes" <randy@[...].ca> 
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>  The problem with the uwinnipeg repository comes from us
>  inserting a PROVIDE element in the ppd file (which is
>  new for ppm4), and ppm2 not ignoring it. This patch
>  to the CPAN ppm version:
> 

Ok - I can now get to the uwinnipeg ppd files ... and I've applied the
patch. But I get:

D:\> ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/Math-Vec.ppd
Installing package 'http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/Math-Vec.ppd'...
Element 'IMPLEMENTATION' cannot contain a child element 'PROVIDE' at
D:/perl58_M/site/5.8.8/lib/PPM.pm line 1658.
Can't locate object method "rvalidate" via package "PPM::XML::PPD::PROVIDE"
at D:/perl58_M/site/5.8.8/lib/PPM/XML/ValidatingElement.pm line 38.

The relevant section of ValidatingElement.pm looks like:

34:
35:     foreach (@{$self-> {Kids}})
36:     {
37:         if ((ref $_) !~ /::Characters$/o)
38:             { $success &= $_-> rvalidate( $func ); }
39:     }
40:
41:     return $success;
42: }
43:

And if I view the source at http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/DateTime.ppd I
see no mention of "PROVIDE":

<SOFTPKG NAME="DateTime" VERSION="0,34,0,0"> 
 <TITLE> DateTime</TITLE>
 <ABSTRACT> DateTime base objects</ABSTRACT>
 <AUTHOR> Dave Rolsky (autarch@urth.org)</AUTHOR>
 <IMPLEMENTATION> 
  <DEPENDENCY NAME="DateTime-Locale" VERSION="0,21,0,0" /> 
  <DEPENDENCY NAME="DateTime-TimeZone" VERSION="0,38,0,0" /> 
  <DEPENDENCY NAME="Params-Validate" VERSION="0,76,0,0" /> 
  <DEPENDENCY NAME="Scalar-List-Utils" VERSION="0,0,0,0" /> 
  <DEPENDENCY NAME="Time-Local" VERSION="1,04,0,0" /> 
  <OS NAME="MSWin32" /> 
  <ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread" /> 
  <CODEBASE HREF="DateTime-0.34-PPM56.tar.gz" /> 
 </IMPLEMENTATION> 
 <IMPLEMENTATION> 
    <DEPENDENCY NAME="DateTime-Locale" VERSION="0,21,0,0" /> 
    <DEPENDENCY NAME="DateTime-TimeZone" VERSION="0,38,0,0" /> 
    <DEPENDENCY NAME="Params-Validate" VERSION="0,76,0,0" /> 
    <DEPENDENCY NAME="Scalar-List-Utils" VERSION="0,0,0,0" /> 
    <DEPENDENCY NAME="Time-Local" VERSION="1,04,0,0" /> 
    <OS NAME="MSWin32" /> 
    <ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8" /> 
    <CODEBASE HREF="DateTime-0.34-PPM58.tar.gz" /> 
  </IMPLEMENTATION> 
</SOFTPKG> 

And yet, I get:

D:\> ppm install http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/DateTime.ppd
Element 'IMPLEMENTATION' cannot contain a child element 'PROVIDE' at
D:/perl58_M/site/5.8.8/lib/PPM.pm line 1658.
Element 'IMPLEMENTATION' cannot contain a child element 'PROVIDE' at
D:/perl58_M/site/5.8.8/lib/PPM.pm line 1658.
.
<repeated many times> 
.
Element 'IMPLEMENTATION' cannot contain a child element 'PROVIDE' at
D:/perl58_M/site/5.8.8/lib/PPM.pm line 1658.
Element 'IMPLEMENTATION' cannot contain a child element 'PROVIDE' at
D:/perl58_M/site/5.8.8/lib/PPM.pm line 1658.
Can't locate object method "rvalidate" via package "PPM::XML::PPD::PROVIDE"
at D:/perl58_M/site/5.8.8/lib/PPM/XML/ValidatingElement.pm line 38.

Otoh, I can install the Digest-Whirlpool ppm just fine:

D:\> ppm install http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/Digest-Whirlpool.ppd
Installing package 'http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/Digest-Whirlpool.ppd'...
Bytes transferred: 17219
Installing D:\perl58_M\site\5.8.8\lib\auto\Digest\Whirlpool\Whirlpool.bs
Installing D:\perl58_M\site\5.8.8\lib\auto\Digest\Whirlpool\Whirlpool.dll
Installing D:\perl58_M\site\5.8.8\lib\auto\Digest\Whirlpool\Whirlpool.exp
Installing D:\perl58_M\site\5.8.8\lib\auto\Digest\Whirlpool\Whirlpool.lib
Installing D:\perl58_M\5.8.8\html\site\lib\Digest\Whirlpool.html
Files found in blib\arch: installing files in blib\lib into architecture
dependent library tree
Installing D:\perl58_M\site\5.8.8\lib\Digest\Whirlpool.pm
Writing D:\perl58_M\site\5.8.8\lib\auto\Digest\Whirlpool\.packlist

Beats me. I gotta go to bed :-)

Cheers,
Rob