Re: howto "mirror" subset of CPAN?

[Iain Truskett]

* Jay Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [26 May 2002 01:12]:

> 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.

> 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.

It's easiest if you use the 02packages.details.txt.gz file as a source.
Sure, you don't get anything that isn't in it, but that which isn't in
it usually isn't worth getting =)

Fits on a CD with no trouble. In fact, if you burn your CD without
finalising, you'll be able to fit a few iterations of full grabs onto
it.

I've even got a script you can use.

Available from http://eh.org/~koschei/code/perl/

Note that it uses the LWP Parallel module, and you may want to tweak the
settings slightly. I was using it for getting a copy from an on-site
mirror, and as such it wasn't a problem getting multiple modules at
once.



cheers,
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iain.  



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Re: howto "mirror" subset of CPAN?

[Iain Truskett]

* Jay Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [27 May 2002 01:04]:

[...]
> The only thing I would want to avoid is pulling over something if you
> have it already & deleting older packages as new ones come along.

The former, it does. The latter, it doesn't. Can I blame the way that
nobody seems to be able to decide on what a version nubmer should be? =)
(Just been selectively upgrading RPMs, and the sheer ridiculousness of
some of thee verison numbers is something to be seen.)

> My rsync mechanism does minimize the bandwidth however I wasn't using
> the 02packages.details file. The thought crossed my mind some time ago
> but I haven't touched this stuff for some time.

I just happened to be preparing myself a CPAN CD last week, so


cheers,
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Re: Another sticky module naming issue

[Iain Truskett]

* Johan Vromans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [23 Aug 2003 18:48]:

[...]
> In other words, META.yml can be automatically produced from any
> existing distribution.

Mostly true. Some packages have different requirements depending on
build choices (most dists that use ExtUtils::AutoInstall fall into this
category).

These authors should note the NO_META option for EU::MM and fill out a
'recommends' section as well as a 'required' section (same syntax, and
the spec doc I pointed out lists it).


But, yes, 95% (probably 99%) of existing dists should be just happy.

cheers,
-- 
Iain.

Re: Ownership of Roman.pm

[Iain Truskett]

* Michel Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

[...]

> I also have a proto that supports numbers above 4000 by
> using the appropriate unicode characters. It works fine
> but if someone running a Perl pre-5.6.0 could use it, I
> would like to know how badly it blows without unicode
> support.

Have you seen Text::Roman, Math::Roman and Convert::Number::Roman,
particularly that last one?


cheers,
-- 
Iain.