I'm attempting to reverse engineer a CPAN site in order to build a small, internal coporate one. It all seems straight forward execpt for the 03modlist.data.gz file. I do not yet understand its contents. Consider the first few lines:
File:        03modlist.data
Description: These are the data that are published in the module
        list, but they may be more recent than the latest posted
        modulelist. Over time we'll make sure that these data
        can be used to print the whole part two of the
        modulelist. Currently this is not the case.
Modcount:    3814
Written-By:  Id: mldistwatch 699 2006-01-30 15:42:03Z k 
Date:        Fri, 03 Mar 2006 14:33:12 GMT

package CPAN::Modulelist;
# Usage: print Data::Dumper->new([CPAN::Modulelist->data])->Dump or si
+milar
# cannot 'use strict', because we normally run under Safe
# use strict;
sub data {
my $result = {};
my $primary = "modid";
for (@$CPAN::Modulelist::data){
my %hash;
@hash{@$CPAN::Modulelist::cols} = @$_;
$result->{$hash{$primary}} = \%hash;
}
$result;
}
$CPAN::Modulelist::cols = [
'modid',
'statd',
'stats',
'statl',
'stati',
'statp',
'description',
'userid',
'chapterid'
];

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What is the purpose of this file?

Neil Watson
watson-wilson.ca

In reply to Creating a local CPAN server by neilwatson

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