nimectos <tt4g-x...@dea.spamcon.org> wrote: >andreas.koenig.7os6v...@franz.ak.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig) wrote: > >>>>>>> On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:35:22 -0700, nimectos >>>>>>> <tt4g-x...@dea.spamcon.org> said: >> >> > I finally succeeded, with some difficulties. >> >> > First, the CPAN version (v1.7602) provided with that distro is apparently >> > broken. >> >>Eight years and more than 120 releases have accumulated on top of this >>version. Pity you have to work with such old stuff. > >Thank you for the response. > >I need a stable distro, CentOS seems like a good choice, CentOS 6 >isn't out quite yet. > >> > [...] >> >> > Then I installed needed modules via "cpan module module ...". That went >> > fine, but it still prompts: >> > - MIME::Lite "Add prereqs?" prompt for extra external modules. >> > - Crypt::SSLeay prompts for install path and live tests. >> >> > How can I pre-set the answers to those? >> >>Make sure you have a recent CPAN.pm and read the manpage section >> >> Configuration for individual distributions (Distroprefs) > >That's good but but seems complex for my needs; I think I'll just >use autoexpect/expect with the cpan command. > >> > So I was thinking of just archiving the installed modules from the source >> > machine and unarchiving on the destination, e.g. just tar up: >> > /usr/lib/perl5/* >> > /usr/lib64/perl5/* >> > and restore on the target (ignoring module docs). Would that work? (I'd >> > still unarchive the .cpan sources so they are present, just wouldn't build >> > them via cpan commands). >> >>If the architectures are sufficiently similar it's likely to work. > >Thanks, I'll try it at some point. > >> > CPAN question: how can I list all installed modules? The closest I could >> > find is the "r" command, but it's not clear if that is listing every >> > installed modules, or just those that are candidates for upgrades. >> >>You're looking for for 'autobundle'. Much to my surprise, 'r' is >>undocumented indeed. Will be in the next release. And yes, it only lists >>upgradeable modules. > >OK, I'd tried autobundle and seen the output, but thought there >might be a separate command that didn't create the actual bundle >file. I'll just use autobundle and manually clean out the Bundle >directory periodically. > >
Following up on my own post here: archiving .cpan, and archiving perl library directories, works fine for installing the built CPAN and modules on another [identical] machine, by simply unarchiving those bundles. Now I am at another phase: a machine built this way needs a few more CPAN modules installed, and has no network access. How do I install? If I had network access I would do e.g.: cpan List::Util List::MoreUtils XML::Simple So I tried: cpan Scalar-List-Utils-1.23.tar.gz which doesn't work; then I tried: cpan GBARR/Scalar-List-Utils-1.23.tar.gz which wanted network access and failed. I am aware of Mini but don't need a mirror - I just need a reasonably simple way to add a few more Perl modules to a unit that already has many modules installed via cpan. Perhaps I actually need some tool other than cpan for this purpose and am just not aware of it.
