Venerables,

I've decided to give Mini::CPAN CPAN::Mini a try, given the fact that I'm often after a picky proxy that slows things down to a crawl. The first, long download left more than 400MB of stuff (when burned on CD), which resolved to occupy more than 700MB on the disk. So far, so good. I've just re-run it to get updates some minutes ago; I was scared by a lot of deletions, so I checked out - 100MB of disk occupation, i.e. 600MB less!

Now I wonder: how big should this mirror be?

Update: The problem was actually that I was working inside Linux but keeping the repository in the FAT32 partition where I keep Windows. In particular, FAT32 does not support case distinction in filenames, and Linux seems to read filenames in lowercase even when they have been registered in uppercase. I've sent to the maintainer a couple of patches I've applied to my local installation - basically, I've added a "case_insensitive" option that should hopefully work the problem around. Thank you cog and brian_d_foy!

Flavio (perl -e "print(scalar(reverse('ti.xittelop@oivalf')))")

Don't fool yourself.

In reply to Mini::CPAN mirror size by polettix

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