Changing Location of Mirror for CPAN Shell

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

Dear Masters,

Is there a way to change the order of the location (or adding )
of the current CPAN mirror as repository for modules installation via CPAN Shell?
Is it possible to do this within CPAN shell itself?

Update: List of locations can be found here and also tips by brian_d_foy.
Thanks to atcroft for this pointer.

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Re: Changing Location of Mirror for CPAN Shell by marto (Cardinal) on May 23, 2006 at 15:39 UTC
neversaint, This is covered under the Configuration section of the documentation. Hope this helps. Martin	[reply]
Re: Changing Location of Mirror for CPAN Shell by gellyfish (Monsignor) on May 23, 2006 at 15:40 UTC
I think you are looking for the CPAN shell command `o conf urllist` which takes a list of the mirrors you want to use. /J\	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Changing Location of Mirror for CPAN Shell by atcroft (Abbot) on May 23, 2006 at 15:46 UTC
According to the Configuration section of the documentation for the CPAN module, you can either push or shift a value into the list using the following syntax: o conf urllist push scheme://path/to/mirror (add to the end of the url list) o conf urllist shift scheme://path/to/mirror (add to the beginning of the url list) So if you know a particular repository that is faster, you can change it for the session. You can also create your own local configuration, as answered in question 5 of the FAQ section of the same documentation, and have it use the URLs of the mirrors you prefer as well, thus making your changes permanent. HTH....	[reply]
Re: Changing Location of Mirror for CPAN Shell by philcrow (Priest) on May 23, 2006 at 15:38 UTC
I don't know how to do it from within the CPAN shell, but you can edit the Config file. Mine is in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/CPAN/Config.pm Look for the urllist key and edit carefully. Phil	[reply]
Re: Changing Location of Mirror for CPAN Shell by Fletch (Bishop) on May 23, 2006 at 15:40 UTC
You have to know the URL, but see the section "Configuration" in the docs for CPAN (specifically the `urllist` key therein).	[reply]