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in thread Automating CPAN Configuration

After several Days of working this out, I finally got it to work. The finished result is below. Thanks for Perl Monks for the ideas from this thread. Wouldn't have been able to do it without you! 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

# get the path to the library
use Config;
my $libpath = $Config{privlib};

# force CPAN::FirstTime to not default to manual
# setup, since initial CPAN setup needs to be automated
system("perl -pi -e\'\$. == 73 and s/yes/no/\' $libpath/CPAN/FirstTime
+.pm");

# initialize the Config.pm file
use Env;
$ENV{PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT} = 1;
require CPAN;
require CPAN::FirstTime;
CPAN::FirstTime::init("$libpath/CPAN/Config.pm");
delete $ENV{PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT};

# undo the change
system("perl -pi -e\'\$. == 73 and s/no/yes/\' $libpath/CPAN/FirstTime
+.pm");

# read in the Config.pm file
open(CONFIGFILE,"<","$libpath/CPAN/Config.pm");
my @lines = <CONFIGFILE>;
close CONFIGFILE;
# ..delete it
unlink "$libpath/CPAN/Config.pm";
# ..and then write it back out, replacing the line with the empty arra
+y urllist with a filled in array
open(NEWFILE,">","$libpath/CPAN/Config.pm");
foreach(@lines){
    if($_ =~ m/urllist/){
        print NEWFILE "  \'urllist\' => [\'http://ppm.activestate.com/
+CPAN\', \'http://cpan.perl.org\'],\n";}
    else{
        print NEWFILE $_;}}
close NEWFILE;

# install the packages
CPAN::install('SOAP::Lite');
CPAN::install('XML::Simple');

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Re^5: Automating CPAN Configuration
by runrig (Abbot) on Jun 28, 2010 at 16:11 UTC

    Update: I've since discovered that I prefer cpanm

    Using your code as a starter, here is what I'm using. I think it's a bit simpler not having to rewrite the FirstTime.pm file:
    ########################################
# Get CPAN::Config.pm initialized
export PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 PERL_MM_NONINTERACTIVE=1 AUTOMATED_TESTIN
+G=1

perl <<'EOT' || exit
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

# get the path to the library
use Config;
my $libpath = $Config{privlib};

# force CPAN::FirstTime to not default to manual
# setup, since initial CPAN setup needs to be automated
{
  local @ARGV = "$libpath/CPAN/FirstTime.pm";
  my @source = <>;
  $source[72] =~ s/\byes\b/no/ or die "Could not auto configure CPAN";
  eval join('', @source) or die "Error executing CPAN::FirstTime: $@";
}

CPAN::FirstTime::init("$libpath/CPAN/Config.pm");

delete $CPAN::Config->{links};
$CPAN::Config->{auto_commit} = '0';
$CPAN::Config->{check_sigs} = '0';
$CPAN::Config->{halt_on_failure} = '0';
$CPAN::Config->{make_install_make_command} = '/usr/bin/make';
$CPAN::Config->{mbuild_arg} = '';
$CPAN::Config->{mbuildpl_arg} = '';
$CPAN::Config->{mbuild_install_arg} = '';
$CPAN::Config->{show_upload_date} = '';
$CPAN::Config->{tar_verbosity} = '1';
$CPAN::Config->{trust_test_report_history} = '0';
$CPAN::Config->{use_sqlite} = '0';
$CPAN::Config->{yaml_load_code} = '0';
$CPAN::Config->{urllist}
  = [q[ftp:...your list.../], q[http://...your list...]];
$CPAN::Config->{connect_to_internet_ok} = '1';
$CPAN::Config->{perl5lib_verbosity}     = 'v';
$CPAN::Config->{prefer_installer}       = 'MB';
$CPAN::Config->{build_requires_install_policy} = 'no';
$CPAN::Config->{term_ornaments}         = '1';
$CPAN::Config->{mbuild_install_build_command} = './Build';

mkdir ".cpan/CPAN" or die "Can't create .cpan/CPAN: $!";
CPAN::Config->commit(".cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm");

CPAN::install('Bundle::CPAN');
#CPAN::force('install', '');
CPAN::install('JSON');
CPAN::install('JSON::XS');

exit 0;
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