Re: Detecting updates to installed modules?

[Mark Stosberg]

On 24 Mar 2002, Jason W May wrote:
> Has anyone created a tool to determine what modules are
> installed locally, and check CPAN for updates to any of
> those modules?  I don't want to reinvent the wheel here,
> but I can't find anything that does this.  CPAN.pm does
> a fine job of download-and-install, but there's no
> inventory function or query-for-update.

I thought that's what the "r" (for reinstall) function in the CPAN shell
does. It appears to emit a list of your currently installed packages
compared with their latest versions.

  -mark

http://mark.stosberg.com/

Re: Detecting updates to installed modules?

[Randal L. Schwartz]

> "Jason" == Jason W May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Jason> Has anyone created a tool to determine what modules are
Jason> installed locally, and check CPAN for updates to any of
Jason> those modules?  I don't want to reinvent the wheel here,
Jason> but I can't find anything that does this.  CPAN.pm does
Jason> a fine job of download-and-install, but there's no
Jason> inventory function or query-for-update.

Besides the "r" command, you mean?  What else did you want?

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Detecting updates to installed modules?

[Jason W May]

Has anyone created a tool to determine what modules are
installed locally, and check CPAN for updates to any of
those modules?  I don't want to reinvent the wheel here,
but I can't find anything that does this.  CPAN.pm does
a fine job of download-and-install, but there's no
inventory function or query-for-update.

Thanks,
-Jason