Re: Being forced to 5.10??

The dilemma, is creating an offline CPAN archive. The solution was found here, and I tracked down the script, read the docs, and tried the script. it failed to run; the specifics are further down.

Is this script the fetchCPAN.pl you mention? Where did it come from? Have you considered CPAN::Mini instead?

Do I understand correctly that you are considering upgrading to 5.10, or using the cpan upgrade command, just to get the script to run to create a local copy of CPAN? This seems backwards, somehow.

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Re^2: Being forced to 5.10?? by Wiggins (Hermit) on Jul 05, 2008 at 13:14 UTC
The script is probably the foundation script for the CPAN::Mini. I found the link in a Monks thread. The 3 mirror_update arguments are the same names as the ones from the script I found. Status -- I tried the script on another machine and it ran without a problem. I think the difference is in how the Perl on each machine is maintained. While both machines are Debian, the second machine is a Knoppix install which came packaged on a CD. I update that Perl exclusively with CPAN. The first machine was an expiment to do a stock Debian Etch install, and use the automated updater to locate and install recent changes. In that case, the Perl may have been a cobble of APT packages and CPAN downloads. I think that may have been the problem I will now have to take some time to work through the manual solutions presented, to put things straight. I have not looked into Debians packages for Perl packaging, because CPAN is just so sweet, when it comes to dependencies and all....	[reply]

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Re^2: Being forced to 5.10??
by Wiggins (Hermit) on Jul 05, 2008 at 13:14 UTC

CPAN::Mini

The 3 mirror_update arguments are the same names as the ones from the script I found.

Status -- I tried the script on another machine and it ran without a problem. I think the difference is in how the Perl on each machine is maintained. While both machines are Debian, the second machine is a Knoppix install which came packaged on a CD. I update that Perl exclusively with CPAN. The first machine was an expiment to do a stock Debian Etch install, and use the automated updater to locate and install recent changes. In that case, the Perl may have been a cobble of APT packages and CPAN downloads. I think that may have been the problem

I will now have to take some time to work through the manual solutions presented, to put things straight. I have not looked into Debians packages for Perl packaging, because CPAN is just so sweet, when it comes to dependencies and all....

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