Many of the references I've found to .packlist files are for maintaining them or finding the appropriate one for a module. What I am looking for (before I write it) is a script/module that will USE the .packlist to create a tarball of the already deployed module for further deployment.

Background: I have reference machines (one per OS) where I build Perl. Initial version builds on those machines are tarballed up, pushed out to production machines with no build tools - not even "make" - and untarballed. Currently, new and updated modules are added to these reference copies and the whole of the Perl reference copy is tarballed up and pushed. I'd prefer to be more granular if only from a psychological standpoint: pushing out a new module version is less intimidating-sounding than pushing out the whole distribution. So...

  • Does anyone know of such a beast?
  • If not, how about some namespace suggestions when I write it myself?

    • Thank you.

    In reply to Build a module distribution from just .packlist? by mpersico

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