Get used to CPAN. You aren't going to find a vendor that provides a
full
CPAN install -- new ones appear daily, so keeping up is impossible
anyway.
Hm. I really do not want to install the Dev Tools on my Mac OS X
Server boxes.
Why not?
I'm not suggesting you install the dev tools, but if your goal is to
reduce the profile available to cracking, you should not be wanting a
full CPAN install anyway. A full CPAN install would be in many ways
like having Dev Tools installed, and in fact would not be very
meaningful without the Dev Tools.
I have been getting around this by installing the files on a client
machine and coping them to the servers, but I don't believe this is
ideal.
That actually is the ideal, after a manner of speaking. Or it could be.
You need a backup and you need a sandbox to test things you want to
change before you change them. The installed server should be a mirror
of the sandbox, except for the databases.
The sandbox can be kept on a hard disk that is kept off-line during
normal operations, freeing the machine that actually runs the sandbox
to be used as a normal administrator's dev box.
Does anyone know what problems I could be causing?
Only your hairdresser knows for sure. ;-)
