I am not looking for a '.ppm' repository with only the most recent modules, I am looking for as near as possible a 'mirror' of the online repository.
I suppose my question would be - why? Okay, I understand the air-gap issue, but why do you eed to have the entire repository on your own machine?

At present the ppm's available from ActiveState are for those modules which will build succesfully, but even that does not guarantee that they will work flawlessly on Win32. However using CPAN currently gives you an even lower chance of success on Win32 - lots and lots of modules will not build or will not pass their tests.

A full blown PPM repository is a SOAP server. If you want to make things a little easier you can have a look at this thread http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/ppm/2851563 on the ActiveState ppm mailing list which discusses how to 'fake' a repository. Although I have never had to do it, you can create some other files and the PPM client will look at those and make the indexing and searching easier apparently.

jdtoronto

In reply to Re^3: Building a local 'ppm' repository (Windows) by jdtoronto
in thread Building a local 'ppm' repository (Windows) by LittleGreyCat

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