Just a follow on message to let people know this is resolved, and custom sources works fine as long as you do the following two things:

  1. Use "old style" versions (i.e. $VERSION = "1.50"), which have a "2-digit zero padded minor form". Do not use extended versions (i.e. use version; our $VERSION = qv ("1.5")) as this doesn't seem to work.
  2. Make sure to refresh both the custom sources and update indexes any time there is a change. The non-obvious method (using a side effect of --write) to do this is:
    1. /cs --list
    2. /cs --write /dir
    3. /cs --update 1
    4. x

You can validate that cpanp can "see" your sources by doing "m Your::Package". If this search doesn't find it, then cpanp won't install it.

Custom sources are much easier than the MiniCPAN approach, in my opinion, if you just want to add your own libs.

In reply to Re^3: CPANPLUS broken custom sources by zerohero
in thread CPANPLUS broken custom sources by zerohero

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