Hello everyone, I can't find the solution to a problem. I downloaded perl strawberry portable and ran minicpan to get my local copy of one miror (no problem, it works great). Now I want to make it available to people that have access to a shared folder on a VM on the network

The constraint is that we are limited to windows as OS and I can't configure cpan correctly to use that mirror. Let's assume I put the miror copy in \\a_server\Shared Internal\porcelet\my_cpan_mirror

Then I went in the cpan config file to edit 'urllist' I have the following line 'urllist' => [q\\\\a_server\\Shared Internal\\porcelet\\my_cpan_mirror] cpan tries to fetch with LWP but the address looks weird...it starts by the url I specified and it's then followed by /authors/01mailrc.txt.gz I have the same issue for packages details and modlist. It indicates that the url must be absolute....did I miss something? I'd like to use unix environnement, I know it's easier...but You can't always do what you want ;)

Regards

In reply to minicpan mirror in windows network by porcelet

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