At work we've got about 15-20 Apache servers to setup, all on Solaris running Perl 5.6. We tried using the autobundle feature of the CPAN module to take a "snapshot" of our currently loaded modules, so we could then just simply install the snapshot and let CPAN.pm do the rest of the work...well, it didn't work out so well. Here's what it did and didn't do:

-- The module couldn't figure out dependencies, and seemed to be working STRICTLY off of the order in which the "snapshot" was taken. This seemed wierd, as it's supposed to be smart enough to figure that out (and does if I let it go to CPAN and fetch the module on it's own). For example, LWP installation would totally hang because of some dependencies it had, which were in fact installed, but further down the list on the snapshot.

-- CPAN.pm re-installed Perl 5.6 itself on our machine. Dunno why, it was already there!

I would really like to use this feature, as I'm the Jr. Admin. and am the one manually installing all the modules on the machines!! I may end up writing a script that'll go through a list of mods that I type up and fetch them from CPAN one by one, but would MUCH rather just use autobundle to ease the pain of multiple installations of the same set of modules. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, Matt

In reply to CPAN module by MCauth

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