Re: Create minimal offline CPAN mirror

You might like the check out wget. It is a "free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP" and "has many features to make retrieving large files or mirroring entire web or FTP sites easy". Be sure to check out its manual. Even Win32 binary versions are available.

AFAIK CPAN is regularly "trimmed" so that it can fit on a single CD-ROM, so just using wget should be fine. If it downloads too much you can always just delete what you don't need.

Good luck.

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•Re: Re: Create minimal offline CPAN mirror by merlyn (Sage) on Aug 06, 2002 at 23:24 UTC
AFAIK CPAN is regularly "trimmed" so that it can fit on a single CD-ROM, ... Not unless you have a 1.3G CDROM: `blue.stonehenge.com>> du -sk /data/mirror/CPAN/ 1255258 /data/mirror/CPAN/` [download] -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply] [d/l]