Re: How do I locally host a CPAN repository on an air-gapped server

Personally, I also use CPAN::Mini, but there also is Pinto, which aims for fine-grained control of what versions you import into your server. I never got it to run, but I didn't spend much time on it either, since I have a working CPAN::Mini installation already.

The "downside" of CPAN::Mini is, that it always keeps a complete mirror and always has the latest version. There is very little in customizing distributions or adding your own, internal modules to it. There is CPAN::Mini::Inject for that, but I've never used it.

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Re^2: How do I locally host a CPAN repository on an air-gapped server by cavac (Prior) on Aug 14, 2024 at 07:56 UTC
CPAN::Mini::Inject works quite well. It has a somewhat strange array of command line options, but they are well explained and easy to understand (just hard to remember). The biggest hurdle to get a local CPAN mirror going these days is the regretable descission of some (not top be named here) people regarding the topic "Mirrors are a thing of the past, we'll do everything in our power to curtail the use of CPAN mirrors". That has unfortunately caused the cpan shell to have a somewhat worse support for local mirrors. It's been some time since i last my local mirror, but it boiled down to having extra steps to configure the cpan shell, and running (if i remember correctly) into problems with signatures. In that instance, i ended up running a patched version of the cpan shell that disabled some security checks... PerlMonks XP is useless? Not anymore: XPD - Do more with your PerlMonks XP Also check out my sisters artwork and my weekly webcomics	[reply]

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Re^2: How do I locally host a CPAN repository on an air-gapped server
by cavac (Prior) on Aug 14, 2024 at 07:56 UTC

CPAN::Mini::Inject works quite well. It has a somewhat strange array of command line options, but they are well explained and easy to understand (just hard to remember).

The biggest hurdle to get a local CPAN mirror going these days is the regretable descission of some (not top be named here) people regarding the topic "Mirrors are a thing of the past, we'll do everything in our power to curtail the use of CPAN mirrors". That has unfortunately caused the cpan shell to have a somewhat worse support for local mirrors.

It's been some time since i last my local mirror, but it boiled down to having extra steps to configure the cpan shell, and running (if i remember correctly) into problems with signatures. In that instance, i ended up running a patched version of the cpan shell that disabled some security checks...

PerlMonks XP is useless? Not anymore: XPD - Do more with your PerlMonks XP
Also check out my sisters artwork and my weekly webcomics

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