Re: RFC: Private CPAN In A Box

2011-06-01 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 10:51:41AM +0200, Steffen Schwigon wrote: > I used CPAN::Mini a lot but now start using *real* CPAN mirrors for > the distroprefs mechanism that CPAN.pm provides (needed to work around > any known problem on CPAN). You can, of course, use distroprefs with any CPAN-like mirr

Re: RFC: Private CPAN In A Box

2011-06-01 Thread Pedro Melo
Hi, On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Steffen Schwigon wrote: > I *think* (but haven't tried yet) that combining both might be good: > >  - a local real CPAN mirror for the latest full CPAN >  - an additional CPAN::Mini (plus ::Inject) to add your own lcoal >   modules > > AFARI CPAN.pm looks into

Re: RFC: Private CPAN In A Box

2011-06-01 Thread Steffen Schwigon
Jeffrey Thalhammer writes: > [build private CPANs] Just to add an experience for completeness of this discussion: I once tried to snapshot a complete MINICPAN with git every time I verified a CPAN::Mini sync with my application's “cpan upgrade ; make test”. But it did not work out well due to

Re: RFC: Private CPAN In A Box

2011-06-01 Thread Steffen Schwigon
Jeffrey Thalhammer writes: > Now this is where it gets interesting. Rather than install in > site_perl, it installs into a directory right inside my project > (let's call it "dlib" for "dependent libraries"). At the same time, > it stashes the tar balls in a directory structure suitable for a >

Re: RFC: Private CPAN In A Box

2011-06-01 Thread Steffen Schwigon
David Cantrell writes: > FWIW, my solution (which I haven't tried) would be: > > * make an up-to-date mirror of the most recent versions of everything on > the CPAN, using CPAN::Mini; > * use CPAN::Mini::Inject to add your own modules to the mirror. I used CPAN::Mini a lot but now start using *