Hi Monks. I have built a minicpan on a Gnu/Linux box and now I am struggling with getting cpan (so far, not trying cpanminus or cpanplus) to find and query my local repository. I have a feeling based on SuperSearch and Google, that this has been discussed often, and I ask the esteemed Monks for their forbearance.

My minicpan is rooted at /var/mirrors/minicpan and I am not clear on whether to push file:///var/mirrors/minicpan or file:///var/mirrors/minicpan/sources into urllist. I am also not sure whether there should be 3 slashes after file: or only two.I've tried every combination of these variable things and nothing works. One node, Offline cpan used by strawberry perl seem to indicate that 3 slashes are needed. There is also a discussion over at StackOverflow that inconclusively debates what the pushy_https configure parameter does.

When I write "nothing works" I mean that this happens:

cpan18> install Net::HTTP::Tiny
Warning: Cannot install Net::HTTP::Tiny, don't know what it is.
Try the command
i /Net::HTTP::Tiny/
to find objects with matching identifiers.

This is always the result. I know the packages I want are in my minicpan. Any help would be appreciated.

Jan 22, 2025 at 20:33 UTC

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In reply to cpan, local mini-mirror, and urllist - can it be made to work? by Intrepid

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