Looking at ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN (which I suppose is the source for your mirror) I cannot find any bleeding-edge sources there.
Is there no way you can make the CPAN-mirror machine also rsync or mirror (part of) APC? I assume that the mirror machine has internet-access.
Which bits? The machines are behind a firewall and I have had to go to enormous lengths to get the CPAN rsync to work even semi-reliably through it.
You could set up the mirror machine to only "synctree.pl" (from cron) and have your smoke boxen use sync_type => 'copy' (or even rsync with two local paths if that 'll work over NFS).
If you want more info on this, just let me know.
Yes, info on exactly what I need to pull would be great. Another alternative is to 'p4 sync' as I have perforce access.
-- Alan Burlison --
