Re^3: Getting Modules Hot Off the Keyboard

I think you can also set http://www.cpan.org/ (or maybe http://www.cpan.org/CPAN/ or something) as a mirror in your mirror list. CPAN.pm uses LWP to retrieve the files. I use a local mirror mounted via samba and have file://server/cpan/minicpan as my top mirror in the CPAN list.

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Re^4: Getting Modules Hot Off the Keyboard by jkeenan1 (Deacon) on Oct 08, 2005 at 19:14 UTC
`http://www.cpan.org/` appears to be the correct setting. I notice that whenever today I have attempted to 'get' or 'test' a module, the shell gives me a message like this: `cpan> get Test::Tester CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /Users/jimk/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Sat, 08 Oct 2005 08:01:00 GMT` [download] ... which suggests to me that I'm not getting the hot-off-the-keyboard distributions because the Metadata file has not yet been updated. Is that the obstacle? Jim Keenan	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Getting Modules Hot Off the Keyboard by randyk (Parson) on Oct 09, 2005 at 04:53 UTC
That sounds like it could be the case - as well as having a current mirror to get the latest versions, you also need, when using CPAN/CPANPLUS, versions of the indices under $CPAN/modules/ and $CPAN/authors/ that have been updated to include recent uploads. This is done, I think, a couple of times a day.	[reply]