Alan McKay <alan.mc...@gmail.com> writes: > The basic problem is this : how to keep numerous machines with the > same CPAN installation? i.e. same modules installed across all boxes. > […] > What are you all doing for this?
I am using - a local CPAN::Mini mirror on NFS - CPAN.pm - CPAN.pm's distroprefs-feature which automates even most insistently written dialogs via Expect - PERL_AUTOINSTALL=--defaultdeps It still has the problem of finetuning until everything works everywhere for different versions of Perl, different architectures, different Perl-Config (like thread support), etc., but it is the best base principle I had for the last years. The most stressful thing there is “bootstrapping” CPAN.pm itself generically for old and newer Perls (5.8..5.12), i.e., installing the latest Bundle::CPANxxl, copy the distroprefs subdir from it's tgz somewhere and configuring it. For the last issue, my “bootstrap” script has lots of lines like this: echo "o conf auto_commit 1 ; o conf commit" | $PERL -MCPAN -e shell echo "o conf ftp_passive 1 " | $PERL -MCPAN -e shell echo "o conf prefs_dir '$HOME/.cpan/prefs'" | $PERL -MCPAN -e shell echo "o conf urllist unshift file:///nfs/MINICPAN " | $PERL -MCPAN -e shell etc. Good luck. Kind regards, Steffen -- Steffen Schwigon <s...@renormalist.net> Dresden Perl Mongers <http://dresden-pm.org/>
