Hi, Monks, I wonder who has this kind of experience.

I have an existing server running Ubuntu 12.04. Over the years, we have installed a lot of modules from both Ubuntu repository and by CPAN command. Now I want to move to 16.04.

Is there a way to build a large Debian package that contains my server source code and all the CPAN modules my code depends on, as well as all the dependencies of those CPAN modules? so that I can drop this large Debian package in a fresh installed Ubuntu 16.04 to create a live server? And other people can also use this package to have an environment same as mine?

I wonder whether this is even possible because some of the package are not from Ubuntu repository. Many thanks!

In reply to how to collect all CPAN modules from an existing system? by khandielas

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