Okay I have just finished installing Titanium. I have had to restore from backup twice (or maybe it was more and I cannot count high enough). My hands are feeling warn out. And I have come to some conclusions.
  1. The current version of the CPAN module is better than the one the box came with. It has a "failed" command which helps you keep track of what needs to be done.
  2. It must be the case that a lot of modules do not state their dependencies correctly.
  3. In particular the compression modules should check for the underlying C libraries and bail out quickly if they are not there.
  4. What I really wanted was a way of typing one command (install Titanium) and getting a list of all perl modules installed. I want it to stop as soon as it hits an error but to only scream when there is a serious issue. I believe CPAN can do this, but I was too fed up to play with it anymore.
  5. I am not aware of any security mailing list for all these modules.
  6. Somebody did once organize an automated CPAN to Debian online converter but it seemed to have died last year.

In reply to Re^2: RFC: auditing cpan installs by SilasTheMonk
in thread RFC: auditing cpan installs by SilasTheMonk

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