I'm merely reporting here a question that was asked (link @ GG) in clpmisc by Joseph Brenner - the question is very interesting for me too and it hasn't received answers yet. I do not claim any authorship on the following, just added some cosmetic formatting...

I'm getting my laptop (AMD64 based) set-up with the latest version of Kubuntu (7.10 Gutsy Gibbon), and I'm trying to do something that doesn't seem to me like it should be terribly complicated, but I'm running into some funny problem I'm not seeing:

  1. I've created a custom Bundle of perl modules installed on my workstation, using CPAN.pm's "autobundle" command.
  2. I've installed a "minicpan" copy on my laptop, using the minicpan command included with the CPAN::Mini module.
  3. I want to configure CPANPLUS or CPAN so that it can be used to install my Bundle, working from the packages in the minicpan mirror.

I would've thought that all I need to do is to stick the full path to the minicpan inside of the "urllist" in ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm.

I keep having funny problems with the CPAN shell trying to install the wrong version from the minicpan mirror, I gather because it's using an stale meta data from the ~/.cpan location rather than getting it from the mirror location.

Anyway, if anyone's done anything like this before, I'd appreciate some hints on what you did (perhaps a copy of your MyConfig.pm).

And if anyone's really interested, I can try to type up a more thorough listing of what I've done and the error messages I've seen, and so on.

In reply to minicpan, CPAN/CPANPLUS and autobundles on linux by blazar

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