Andreas J. Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> =item 5)
>
> I am not root, how can I install a module in a personal directory?
>
> First of all, you will want to use your own configuration, not the one
> that your root user installed. The following command sequence is a
> possible approach:
>
> % mkdir -p $HOME/.cpan/CPAN
> % echo '1;' > $HOME/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm
> % cpan
> [...answer all questions...]
> It looks cool and straight forward. I wonder if you would still
> recommend your own patch now that I have shown you the section 5 of
> the FAQ?
I saw that before I wrote up the code, since I didn't think that was
terribly user friendly, and it also required the user to RTFM. :) I also
think my version is Win32 compatible (not really sure? could someone with a
windows box test it?) in the instance where Administrator installs perl and
configures CPAN to write to a directory a regular user can't access.
> If yes, I think I'd call it "mkmyconfig".
>
> And when you could please add a paragraph of documentation, it's in in
> a second.
OK, I'll re-do my patch with a snippet of docs. I didn't really
consider that somebody might explicitly run
perl -MCPAN -e 'mkmyconfig'
, I was more expecting that they'd just try to run shell and get
burned, but both use cases are perfectly valid.
Cheers,
Tyler
