Re: Can I get cpanm to skip re-installation of a module when pointing directly to a remote .tgz file?

You can also use distroprefs. You can specify patches to apply upon installation and CPAN clients will happily apply them.

Just specify

$CPAN::Config->{prefs_dir} = ...;
$CPAN::Config->{patches_dir} = ...;
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See rurban's distroprefs for inspiration.

map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

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Re^2: Can I get cpanm to skip re-installation of a module when pointing directly to a remote .tgz file? by boleary (Scribe) on Sep 23, 2022 at 11:22 UTC
I think this sounds like a good idea, but the inspiration I got from the link and the documents on cpan were not enough for me to figure out how to use it It sounds like I can download the latest distro, make the changes I want and create a patch file and then have distoprefs apply them? can it also patch the c code and .xs files if needed?	[reply]