I'm trying to build a darkpan to replicate the levels of modules we have on a certain live site. Backpan has been very good to me, providing the versions of modules rpm -qa tells me we've wrapped and installed there, so I have a mirror of all that using Schwern's mighty BackPAN::Index to find them.

My next step is to index that mirror tree so that cpanm can use the local mirror.

cpansite appears to put 02packages.details.txt.gz in global/ which cpanm doesn't expect.

Miyagawa pointed me at the "OrePAN" module which mostly works but occasionally indexes wrongly, for example, I have: 

authors/id/M/MN/MNOONING/Net-Daemon/Net-Daemon-0.44.tar.gz

Which is puts in 02packages.details.txt.gz as: 

Net::Daemon     0.44    N/Ne/Net-Daemon/Net-Daemon-0.44.tar.gz

I *could* cpanm Net::Daemon with the exact path to the .tar.gz but that's a little suboptimal.

So, does anyone maintain a darkpan and how do you do it?

TIA,

In reply to Maintaining a darkpan? by davehodg

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