CPAN problem

jeanluca has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Monks
I've this thing with cpan that I don't understand. Here it is:

cpan> autobundle /radix/
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Sat, 11 Feb 2006 03:16:19 GMT

Wrote bundle file
    /root/.cpan/Bundle/Snapshot_2006_02_13_01.pm
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That didn't help very much, what does this output tell me and what should I do next ?

Thanks
Luca

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Re: CPAN problem by Tanktalus (Canon) on Feb 12, 2006 at 17:00 UTC
I suppose the first question is - what are you trying to do? If you check the CPAN docs, you'll see that autobundle merely writes out a bundle that will restore your system up to that date and time with all the modules you currently have. So there's nothing else you need to do until you want to use that snapshot to restore, or to duplicate on another machine. But it's hard to tell if autobundle is even the right command for what you want to do as we don't actually know what it is you're trying to accomplish.	[reply]
Re: CPAN problem by brian_d_foy (Abbot) on Feb 12, 2006 at 17:00 UTC
An autobundle creates a snapshot of all of the modules (with their versions) you have installed. You can feed thta file to CPAN.pm on another machine to get it to install all of those modules. See the "Populate and installation with lots of Modules" in the CPAN.pm documentation. -- brian d foy <brian@stonehenge.com> Subscribe to The Perl Review	[reply]
Re: CPAN problem by jeanluca (Deacon) on Feb 12, 2006 at 17:13 UTC
Oooh, I thought I could search for modules with that command :) Luca	[reply]