in reply to CPAN::Mini on a diet

I'm working on something as a background task, something way down my priority list to make managing CPAN::Mini easier to configure. In the meantime check out CPAN::Mini::NoLargeFiles, CPAN::Mini::LatestDistVersion and make extensive use of the filtering options CPAN::Mini has, e.g. ACME*, if you don't work on Windows, don't mirror Win32*, experiment with ditching App*.

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Re^2: CPAN::Mini on a diet
by glasswalk3r (Friar) on Mar 22, 2017 at 14:19 UTC

    Thanks for the tips, I'll take a look specially at CPAN::Mini::LatestDistVersion. I used my script for cleanup, but as soon as I run another minicpan to update the mirror, I got download those old versions (which is OK, since this is the expected behavior).

    Maybe CPAN::Mini should include the features of CPAN::Mini::LatestDistVersion as well.

    Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior
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    "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Sir Winston Churchill
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      " but as soon as I run another minicpan to update the mirror, I got download those old versions (which is OK, since this is the expected behavior)."

      For clarity, are you running minicpan -c CPAN::Mini::LatestDistVersion when updating to use the CPAN::Mini::LatestDistVersion class?

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        Nope... just minicpan, still didn't have the time to test CPAN::Mini::LatestDistVersion yet.

        ASAP I'll do it and let you know.

        Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior
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        "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Sir Winston Churchill
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