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greetings,

first, i've searched about and found these resources, and they don't seem to address/mitigate my issue fully:

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=747071
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My general problem is that I want a defined set of cpan mods of set version numbers to install on several production machines so I can control when/if mod updates occur (we recently had a code collision with an update to Class::Accessor for example.) I'm attempting then to make a private local cpan "mirror" (more a cpan "picture-of-dorian-gray" i suppose). Here are a sample set of commands used:

[root@trowel root]# MCPANI_CONFIG=/root/.mcpani/config mcpani -v --add
+ --module Apache::DBI --authorid PGOLLUCCI --modversion 1.07 --file /
+root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/P/PG/PGOLLUCCI/Apache-DBI-1.07.tar.gz
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then

[root@trowel root]# MCPANI_CONFIG=/root/.mcpani/config mcpani --inject
+ -v
Injecting modules from /root/epgysch_prod_CPAN_repos
/var/www/epgysch-prod-CPAN/authors/id/P/PG/PGOLLUCCI/Apache-DBI-1.07.t
+ar.gz ... injected
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Then in the cpan shell, i have

o conf:
urllist file:///var/www/epgysch-prod-CPAN/
...
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i would hope that then i could do

cpan> install Apache::DBI
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and get the module (version 1.07!) that i injected into the "mirror" at /var/www/epgysch-prod-CPAN/, but instead, cpan looks for this (version 1.08 under a different author id):

cpan[1]> install Apache::DBI
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.21)
Going to read '/root/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:04:12 GMT
Running install for module 'Apache::DBI'
Running make for A/AB/ABH/Apache-DBI-1.08.tar.gz
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v5.829)
CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9717)
CPAN: URI::URL loaded ok (v5.03)
Could not find '/var/www/epgysch-prod-CPAN/authors/id/A/AB/ABH/Apache-
+DBI-1.08.tar.gz'
Fetching with LWP:
  file:///var/www/epgysch-prod-CPAN/authors/id/A/AB/ABH/Apache-DBI-1.0
+8.tar.gz
LWP failed with code[404] message[File `/var/www/epgysch-prod-CPAN/aut
+hors/id/A/AB/ABH/Apache-DBI-1.08.tar.gz' does not exist]
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This is not surprising I suppose, since cpan is parsing and using /root/.cpan/Metadata which likely stores info from when I was working with a public cpan repository, but I only want it to look at what is in the local repository I am setting up. I suppose I could fiddle about more with local cpan configs, but I would hope there is a better, easier way to just tell cpan to go to forget about any history and just go to my local repository and see/get what's there.

Perhaps I am on a fool's errand here (or more likely, a fool on an errand), are there any suggestions on how to go about doing what I want, even if it is off in some other direction? And is what I am trying to do a reasonable thing to do, even? I think it is...

Thanks for any help,

Bruce

In reply to problem setting up local mod repository with mcpani by bruce_sears

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