I maintain a large-ish tree of perl modules that I keep in git, it's arranged as such: 

modules/Some-Module
modules/Some-Other-Module
...

I have scripts to go to each directory and do the basic perl Makefile.PL; make all dist which builds a .tar.gz package.

My problem is that after I have all those .tar.gz packages, and since some of the packages may depend on other packages they have to be installed in a particular order.

Currently I'm doing this by keeping a manual list of the order in which they should be installed. I then do: 

    cpanp -i file://$(pwd)/$module_name-$module_version.tar.gz

on each of them in the correct order. I'd rather have my tools (preferrably CPANPLUS) handle dependency resolution for me.

I used to have a solution for this when I used CPAN.pm by running my own CPAN mirror with CPAN::Mini and using CPAN::Mini::Inject to inject all my packages into it before installing them. But maintaining that setup was even more painful than manually maintaining a list of which order they should be installed in.

In reply to How do I get CPANPLUS (or some other tool) to resolve dependencies when installing local .tar.gz packages? by avar

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