Bundling the Module Net::SFTP

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

I want to install Net::SFTP in our production machines. But I cannot use these commands:

sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::SFTP'
or
yum install ...
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The problem is that it has a lot of dependencies.

What would be a good approach in dealing with this?

Should I download each dependent tarballs and try to install them on my local machine on a local directory? Then zip this local directory and deploy it to production?

Should I try to download the rpms and hope that there are rpm for all the dependencies?

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Re: Bundling the Module Net::SFTP by Corion (Patriarch) on Sep 09, 2010 at 17:00 UTC
Yes, even you can use CPAN, also http://deps.cpantesters.org/?module=Net::SFTP;perl=latest for manual installation of all the dependencies.	[reply]
Re^2: Bundling the Module Net::SFTP by Anonymous Monk on Sep 09, 2010 at 17:16 UTC
The other factor that I forgot to mention is that the production machine do not have access to the Internet. So, I am not sure how your suggestion would work. Are you saying that I should download all the dependent modules and just install them locally as non-root?	[reply]
Re^3: Bundling the Module Net::SFTP by Corion (Patriarch) on Sep 09, 2010 at 17:18 UTC
Yes.	[reply]
Re: Bundling the Module Net::SFTP by salva (Canon) on Sep 10, 2010 at 07:03 UTC
You can try using Net::SFTP::Foreign instead, it provides an adapter layer (Net::SFTP::Foreign::Compat) for compatibility with Net::SFTP and is far easier to install as it only requires two additional packages Expect and IO::Pty that, I am sure, will be available as rpms.	[reply]
Re: Bundling the Module Net::SFTP by Anonymous Monk on Sep 09, 2010 at 17:31 UTC
Forgive me. I am really a newbie. I tried to follow Yes, even you can use CPAN . But I am getting this message. `$ perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/tmp/testme LIB=/tmp/testme Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for Net::SFTP Unable to open MakeMaker.tmp: Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8. +0/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm line 997.` [download] Is the command that I issued correct?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Bundling the Module Net::SFTP by Corion (Patriarch) on Sep 09, 2010 at 18:26 UTC
Maybe you don't have permission to write to `/tmp/testme`. Also, I think you're supposed to use different directories for LIB and PREFIX. Maybe consider taking a look at local::lib, which wraps all this in a convenient package.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Bundling the Module Net::SFTP by Utilitarian (Vicar) on Sep 10, 2010 at 10:43 UTC
Perhaps you should be using PAR::Packer and distributing the resulting binary `print "Good ",qw(night morning afternoon evening)[(localtime)[2]/6]," fellow monks."`	[reply] [d/l]