On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 10:13:20AM -0400, Jay Lawrence wrote: > > Using Rsync and a bit o' Perl I have developed a latest version only mirror > of CPAN. Its very crude but if people are interested I could clean it up a > bit and let you have it.
For a mere $20, with profits going to YAS? > I still find that its hard to strip CPAN down to fit on a CD ... but I am > certain that there is some stuff in there that is so specialized that it > could be safely excluded. If whatever OS you're usually using is happy with bzip2 compressed files, then you may be able to cram another 5 to 10% on the CD by turning all the tar.gz files to tar.bz2. You may also make some savings by re-packing zips as tar.gz files, and even more as tar.bz2 Nicholas Clark -- Even better than the real thing: http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/
