Re: How can I regenerate a .minicpanrc?

2017-03-16 Thread James E Keenan
On 03/16/2017 07:25 PM, Olaf Alders wrote: On Mar 16, 2017, at 7:20 PM, James E Keenan wrote: Yes, I can't recall why I had it there. Probably something having to do with CPAN::Mini::Visit::Simple. As my memory of this improves, I also recall that I had something in the .minicpanrc to u

Re: How can I regenerate a .minicpanrc?

2017-03-16 Thread Olaf Alders
> On Mar 16, 2017, at 7:20 PM, James E Keenan wrote: > Yes, I can't recall why I had it there. Probably something having to do with > CPAN::Mini::Visit::Simple. > > As my memory of this improves, I also recall that I had something in the > .minicpanrc to use this module from CPAN: > > CPAN:

Re: How can I regenerate a .minicpanrc?

2017-03-16 Thread James E Keenan
On 03/16/2017 07:08 PM, Olaf Alders wrote: On Mar 16, 2017, at 6:58 PM, James E Keenan wrote: Hi Jim, Could you just copy/paste it? For example, mine is currently: local: ~/minicpan remote: http://cpan.metacpan.org/ exact_mirror: 1 Thanks, Olaf. I guess that's the "default" .minicpanr

Re: How can I regenerate a .minicpanrc?

2017-03-16 Thread Olaf Alders
> On Mar 16, 2017, at 6:58 PM, James E Keenan wrote: > >> Hi Jim, >> >> Could you just copy/paste it? For example, mine is currently: >> >> local: ~/minicpan >> remote: http://cpan.metacpan.org/ >> exact_mirror: 1 >> > > Thanks, Olaf. I guess that's the "default" .minicpanrc. But ISTR tha

Re: How can I regenerate a .minicpanrc?

2017-03-16 Thread James E Keenan
On 03/16/2017 05:47 PM, Olaf Alders wrote: On Mar 16, 2017, at 5:17 PM, James E Keenan wrote: Last month I was testing the latest version of CPAN module B::C. The testing process caused major damage to my machine. One of my FreeBSD VMs was rendered inaccessible. All of the .xxx configura

Re: How can I regenerate a .minicpanrc?

2017-03-16 Thread Olaf Alders
> On Mar 16, 2017, at 5:17 PM, James E Keenan wrote: > > Last month I was testing the latest version of CPAN module B::C. The testing > process caused major damage to my machine. One of my FreeBSD VMs was > rendered inaccessible. All of the .xxx configuration files in my home > directory d

How can I regenerate a .minicpanrc?

2017-03-16 Thread James E Keenan
Last month I was testing the latest version of CPAN module B::C. The testing process caused major damage to my machine. One of my FreeBSD VMs was rendered inaccessible. All of the .xxx configuration files in my home directory disappeared. I spent most of the next several days reinstalling t