Re^2: Repeated offline installs of same CPAN modules

Yes, the low-down solution is to identify all the required files, pack them, and unfold on same-architecture target systems. If there's nothing else, I'll go that way.

But by asking I was hoping that someone would suggest something like a 'Presto-Installer 0.78' or somesuch that would simply take the indivual CPAN archived modules, and make them.

After all, a bash script can do that.

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Re^3: Repeated offline installs of same CPAN modules by zentara (Cardinal) on Mar 02, 2006 at 12:03 UTC
*I was hoping that someone would suggest something like a 'Presto-Installer* I asked this before, and I still resort to the manual method. Why? Before I like to keep all my downloaded modules in the same directory, so I can scan their names when searching for them. Whereas most cpan modules want a repository style tree, where the modules are buried in those alphabetical named directories. It was still easy, because Perl dosn't need you to "make clean" before rebuilding. So when I needed to rebuild my modules for a recent upgrade to 5.8.8, all I needed to do was (in Midnight Commander) start at the top of modules directory,and as root, enter the individual modules directory, and do "perl Makfile.PL", followed by "make install". I could march thru 100 modules in about 30 minutes. Now this could easily be scripted. The only problem would be when a module needs a pre-requisite module, and issues an error. So you need to do it attended. But I found that most of the time, you can install the pre-requisite later, as long as it is in your list, so you can ignore them and install anyways. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]

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Re^3: Repeated offline installs of same CPAN modules
by zentara (Cardinal) on Mar 02, 2006 at 12:03 UTC

I was hoping that someone would suggest something like a 'Presto-Installer

I asked this before, and I still resort to the manual method. Why? Before I like to keep all my downloaded modules in the same directory, so I can scan their names when searching for them. Whereas most cpan modules want a repository style tree, where the modules are buried in those alphabetical named directories. It was still easy, because Perl dosn't need you to "make clean" before rebuilding. So when I needed to rebuild my modules for a recent upgrade to 5.8.8, all I needed to do was (in Midnight Commander) start at the top of modules directory,and as root, enter the individual modules directory, and do "perl Makfile.PL", followed by "make install". I could march thru 100 modules in about 30 minutes. Now this could easily be scripted. The only problem would be when a module needs a pre-requisite module, and issues an error. So you need to do it attended. But I found that most of the time, you can install the pre-requisite later, as long as it is in your list, so you can ignore them and install anyways.

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

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