BernieC has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

This with strawberry perl, in case it is different on different versions: when I run "cpan autobundle" it somehow finds a list of every installed module. how does it build/access that list?
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Re: Where does perl keep its master module list?
by marto (Cardinal) on Oct 27, 2022 at 14:49 UTC

    Use the source Luke, CPAN::Shell autobundle.

    Update: See the faq link in the previous thread for various other methods.

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Re: Where does perl keep its master module list?
by sectokia (Friar) on Oct 28, 2022 at 10:12 UTC
    Well I just looked at the cpan source.... autobundle -> _u_r_common -> sqlite -> index -> indexbundle. Which has this: 
    my @indexbundle =
    (
     {
      reader => "rd_authindex",
      dir => "authors",
      remotefile => '01mailrc.txt.gz',
      shortlocalfile => '01mailrc.gz',
     },
     {
      reader => "rd_modpacks",
      dir => "modules",
      remotefile => '02packages.details.txt.gz',
      shortlocalfile => '02packag.gz',
     },
     {
      reader => "rd_modlist",
      dir => "modules",
      remotefile => '03modlist.data.gz',
      shortlocalfile => '03mlist.gz',
     },
    );

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    So in those files, which you could read using CPAN::SQLite
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Re: Where does perl keep its master module list?
by stevieb (Canon) on Oct 28, 2022 at 00:20 UTC

    This feels like an XY problem.

    Can you articulate your intention here? ie. What is it exactly you're trying to do?

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