Better way to mirror CPAN locally?
gvim
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Mon May 7 17:34:26 BST 2012
On 07/05/2012 13:50, Mark Fowler wrote:
>
> The script you provided is designed to keep a mirror of only the
> parts of CPAN that you can install via the CPAN shell (i.e. not keep
> a copy of dev versions and old versions of distributions). Assuming
> you want the same thing, rsync is not the answer as that'll suck down
> a whole host of stuff you don't want on disk.
>
> However: The more modern CPAN::Mini
> https://metacpan.org/module/minicpan can do the same thing and
> subsequent runs only download indexes and distributions. It's
> probably what you're looking for.
>
Ignore last message about distributions. Got it now and it seems to be what I'm looking for. Thanks.
gvim
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