> What is the best practice for manually installing modules? > (I don't have internet access for many of the machines I use > regularly.)
I have the same problem; here's how I overcame it. I was able to get permission to set up a firewall rule allowing ONE unix machine to access ONE CPAN mirror location. On that machine, I set up a local CPAN mirror using CPAN::Mini. This is a great tool that allows you to mirror only the latest version of all modules (or a subset by filtering out parts of CPAN you don't care about, e.g. Acme:: and bioperl). Then, all you have to do is configure the 'cpan' command on the other unix machines to point to this mirror, and voila. 'cpan' works like it was connected to the internet, even though the host is not. It gets even better. Later, I realized I can use CPAN::Mini::Inject to add our own modules in the BLS:: namespace to the local mirror, without having to upload them to CPAN. Yet they are installable just like CPAN modules anywhere in the organization. This is really neat. - Mark. -- Mark Thomas Internet Systems Architect _______________________________________ BAE SYSTEMS Information Technology 2525 Network Place Herndon, VA 20171 USA _______________________________________________ Perl-Unix-Users mailing list Perl-Unix-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
