Re: A master-list of module dependencies?

It seems to me that you are still expected to develop your own custom rsync/cron configuration to mirror CPAN. Frankly, that's too much effort for an ordinary developer; it's easier to just use CPANPLUS, or suffer on when you're offline.

I think if there were HOWTOs for platforms, e.g. MacOS X, each BSD, each Linux distribution, more people would be mirroring CPAN (e.g. on their laptops).

The intersection set between Perl application developers and those who are willing to invest half a day in setting up a CPAN mirror may not be that large. I know that the payoff isn't good enough for me, but I would do it if it were cheaper in terms of effort.

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Re^2: A master-list of module dependencies? by adrianh (Chancellor) on Jul 11, 2004 at 20:54 UTC
I think if there were HOWTOs for platforms, e.g. MacOS X, each BSD, each Linux distribution, more people would be mirroring CPAN (e.g. on their laptops). Like the How to mirror CPAN section of the CPAN FAQ you mean :-) Basically: `rsync -av --delete rsync.mirror.of.your.choice::CPAN mycpan` [download] should do the job.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: A master-list of module dependencies? by biosysadmin (Deacon) on Jul 11, 2004 at 21:47 UTC
As adrianh has pointed out, mirroring CPAN is not very hard at all. Here's the two lines from my crontab that do the job just fine: `# Update CPAN mirror at 2am every Sunday 0 2 * * 0 /usr/local/bin/rsync -av --delete cpan.mirror.findityourself +.com::CPAN /var/apache/htdocs/CPAN/ >> /dev/null 2>&1` [download] That took me about 10 minutes to set up the very first time, which really isn't half of a day. Extending it to any Unix-ish system (such as Linux, BSD or MacOSX) should take about 5 minutes. That's much less than half of a day. Unless you live on a planet like Mercury. :P	[reply] [d/l]
Re: A master-list of module dependencies? by DapperDan (Pilgrim) on Jul 12, 2004 at 01:59 UTC
I stand corrected. This is a clear case of RTFM if ever there was one. Thank you both...	[reply]
Re^2: A master-list of module dependencies? by DrHyde (Prior) on Jul 12, 2004 at 08:34 UTC
What's so hard about `0 0 * * * (cd ~me/CPAN-mirror && rsync -av --bwlimit=15 --delete rsync.nic.funet.fi::CPAN .)`?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: A master-list of module dependencies? by rrwo (Friar) on Jul 12, 2004 at 20:25 UTC
Most people do not mirror CPAN on their machines because they will never need a majority of the modules.	[reply]