On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 05:58:43PM -0700, Robert Menschel wrote:
> Hello Bob,
>
> Wednesday, July 28, 2004, 9:08:31 AM, you wrote:
>
> BMJ> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 09:17:09AM -0500, Smart,Dan wrote:
> >> Bob:
> >> How do you pick decent mirrors when configuring CPAN. If you pick a bad
> >> one, CPAN takes forever to timeout and hit another.
>
> BMJ> Hmm. In my experience it takes only an eon, but not forever. :-)
>
> >> Do you or anyone else
> >> have a suggestion on a group of robust, high-speed CPAN mirrors?
>
> Related question, since it seems to be on-topic for this thread, if not
> the list,
>
> I tried to use CPAN last week to update something, and failed -- seems
> the one and only server I had in my config was down. I tracked down
> alternatives and replaced one with one, and got my update.
>
> What's the best way to update the list of servers used by CPAN?
>
> Bob Menschel
I quote the vernerable "man CPAN" page:
CONFIGURATION
When the CPAN module is used for the first time, a configuration dialog
tries to determine a couple of site specific options. The result of the
dialog is stored in a hash reference $CPAN::Config in a file CPAN/Con-
fig.pm.
The default values defined in the CPAN/Config.pm file can be overridden
in a user specific file: CPAN/MyConfig.pm. Such a file is best placed
in $HOME/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm, because $HOME/.cpan is added to the
search path of the CPAN module before the use() or require() state-
ments.
The configuration dialog can be started any time later again by issue-
ing the command " o conf init " in the CPAN shell.
Cheers,
--
Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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