What modules got installed?

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

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Re: What modules got installed? by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Mar 15, 2011 at 23:59 UTC
I found some useful methods in Logging the CPAN Shell by carol. marto and quester suggested something like this: `>script -c 'TERM=dumb cpan' -a /root/Desktop/cpan.log cpan> install Module cpan>exit` [download] planetscape suggested something like this: `cpan> install Module > /root/Desktop/cpan.log cpan>q` [download] It prints to log not STDOUT.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: What modules got installed? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 16, 2011 at 02:26 UTC
I had never heard of script, thanks. I don't really need to monitor input, so tee would be just as good. The whole shell redirect inside of `cpan` is novel too. `install Foo \| tee out` allows you to see what's going on.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: What modules got installed? (keep_source_where) by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 16, 2011 at 03:09 UTC
The directory indicated by `cpan` config item `keep_source_where` (`~/.cpan/sources`) contains every distribution I've ever attempted to install, going back years. That catch is that it's not specific to a Perl install. But if one were to set `keep_source_where` differently when installing for a specifc install of Perl, one could not just track the name of the distros but have the actual distros (by author) that was installed for that install of Perl. Perfect :) `perl -MCPAN -MCPAN::HandleConfig -e' CPAN::HandleConfig::require_myconfig_or_config(); $CPAN::Config->{keep_source_where} = "/tmp/sources/"; shell; ' CGI` [download] created `/tmp/sources/ /tmp/sources/authors/ /tmp/sources/authors/id/ /tmp/sources/authors/id/F/ /tmp/sources/authors/id/F/FL/ /tmp/sources/authors/id/F/FL/FLORA/ /tmp/sources/authors/id/F/FL/FLORA/CHECKSUMS /tmp/sources/authors/id/F/FL/FLORA/FCGI-0.71.tar.gz /tmp/sources/authors/id/M/ /tmp/sources/authors/id/M/MA/ /tmp/sources/authors/id/M/MA/MARKSTOS/ /tmp/sources/authors/id/M/MA/MARKSTOS/CGI.pm-3.52.tar.gz /tmp/sources/authors/id/M/MA/MARKSTOS/CHECKSUMS` [download] Note that FCGI is a prereq of CGI.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: What modules got installed? by Anonymous Monk on Mar 15, 2011 at 22:57 UTC
cpanp keeps a install-logs directory ( `s conf write_install_logs 1`), I believe cpan offers a similar feature ( histfile / histsize )	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: What modules got installed? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 15, 2011 at 23:30 UTC
cpan's histfile is used to store the command history. I'll give your cpanp idea a whirl, thanks.	[reply]