Steffen Schwigon <s...@renormalist.net> wrote: >Hi! > >nimectos <tt4g-x...@dea.spamcon.org> writes: >> My question is, how can I specify the desired version to the >> "cpan" command? I didn't see how in "man cpan" or in the >> cpan.org FAQ. > >You could give the last part of the download link consisting of the >AUTHOR name and the versioned filename: > > cpan SHLOMIF/XML-LibXML-2.0002.tar.gz > >Admittedly you need to find out this name in advance on (meta)cpan.org >because the author might be different per version. > Thank you very much, that got me past the problem - it turned out that there were a few other modules I had to treat similarly.
Is there some other method - a way to tell the cpan command "I know that your downloaded module lists will show newer versions, but pretend that these versions are the latest for these modules"? I like to feed the same long module list to cpan a second time and see that everything is already installed properly but that doesn't work with the method above, it always installs it again even if already installed.
