Re^3: CPAN::Mini on a diet

" 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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Re^4: CPAN::Mini on a diet by glasswalk3r (Friar) on Mar 22, 2017 at 17:23 UTC
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 --------------------------------- "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Sir Winston Churchill	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: CPAN::Mini on a diet by glasswalk3r (Friar) on Mar 24, 2017 at 01:14 UTC
All right, did the test finally. Here is the short sequence: Update mirror with "standard" CPAN::Mini Clean up with my script Repeat, to be sure the count is zero. Install CPAN::Mini::LatestDistVersion. Sync with CPAN::Mini::LatestDistVersion. Run the cleanup script again. Sync again with CPAN::Mini::LatestDistVersion. Result: the cleanup script removed some files, but not as much as using minicpan only. And follows the long output of executing those steps: Read more... (5 kB) Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior --------------------------------- "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Sir Winston Churchill	[reply] [d/l]