Hello marto and others following the thread. Sorry, a bit delayed getting back to you wrt your helpful suggestions.

I've tried to check everything on the Gnu/Linux box where I'm working. The urllist is as you told me:

cpan> o conf urllist

    urllist

        0 [file:///var/mirrors/minicpan]

The perms on the minicpan dir look correct (I run cpan as user "somian"):


$ ls -ld . ./*
drwxrwxr-x 3 root staff 4096 Jan 20 14:29 .
drwxrwxr-x 4 root staff 4096 Jan 20 14:55 ./minicpan
ls -ld ./minicpan/*
drwxr-xr-x 3 somian somian 4096 Jan 21 16:20 ./minicpan/authors
drwxr-xr-x 2 somian somian 4096 Jan 26 13:57 ./minicpan/modules
bq.

The real test diagnostic comes when I try cpanminus (cpanm), like this (made a bash function):

cpanm --sudo --verbose --cascade-search \

                            --mirror file:///var/mirrors/minicpan \

                            --mirror https://cpan.metacpan.org/ "$1"

This works perfectly, and so in a sense my problem is solved. I'd still like to know what the problem with cpan is.

EDIT

As marto pointed out, I ought to cite the version:/usr/local/bin/cpan version 1.64.

Jan 28, 2025 at 20:35 UTC

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In reply to Re^2: cpan, local mini-mirror, and urllist - can it be made to work? by Intrepid
in thread cpan, local mini-mirror, and urllist - can it be made to work? by Intrepid

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