FWIW, I've created a distroprefs page on the wiki: http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/Distroprefs
Anyone should feel free to write better instructions or add links to other distroprefs collections. -- David On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Slaven Rezic <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike <[email protected]> writes: > >> Where the rubber meets the road- >> >> What is the default full pathname of the distroprefs file for CPAN.pm? Can >> someone post a file they use as an example? >> > > Specify the directory within the CPAN shell with > > o conf prefs_dir /path/to/distroprefs > > and save with > > o conf commit > > The distroprefs files are YAML files (usually) and used not only for > exclusion of distribution, but also for all kind of setting > interactive and noninteractive options. My collection of distropref > files may be found in this CVS repository: > > cvs -d :pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/srezic login > cvs -d :pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/srezic co > srezic-misc/cpan-prefs > > Search for "disabled" for an example how to skip a distribution. > >> Same for CPANPLUS.pm- What is the default full pathname of the >> distroprefs file for CPANPLUS.pm? Can someone post a file they use? > > Does CPANPLUS have already adopted distroprefs? I don't think so. But > the CPANPLUS based smokers should have at least some kind of skip > file. > > Regards, > Slaven > > -- > Slaven Rezic - slaven <at> rezic <dot> de > > tkrevdiff - graphical display of diffs between revisions (RCS, CVS or SVN) > http://ptktools.sourceforge.net/#tkrevdiff >
