>>>>> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 08:20:38 +0100, Thomas Klausner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> said:
> Hi!
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 02:59:22PM -0800, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
>> > - Use "CPAN::Mini" to create a local CPAN mirror quasy on the fly.
>>
>> The problem there is that it mirrors all of CPAN. A lot of
>> bandwidth, not exactly a reuseable trick, unless CPAN::Mini has an option to
>> mirror only packages X and Y, and all packages that depend on them?
> Take a look at the 'path_filters' and 'module_filters' options of
> CPAN::Mini. While they do not allow what you're after, they might be a
> start.
If you use CPAN.pm it maintains your own mini-cpan mirror under
~/.cpan/sources.
So if you regularly do
perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("My::Favorite","Modules")'
then you have what you want.
If you do not want to install it, use "make" instead.
--
andreas
