Re: How can I regenerate a .minicpanrc?
On 03/16/2017 07:25 PM, Olaf Alders wrote: On Mar 16, 2017, at 7:20 PM, James E Keenan wrote: Yes, I can't recall why I had it there. Probably something having to do with CPAN::Mini::Visit::Simple. As my memory of this improves, I also recall that I had something in the .minicpanrc to use this module from CPAN: CPAN::Mini::LatestDistVersion - Create a CPAN mirror with only the latest version of each distribution Would this do the trick? class: CPAN::Mini::LatestDistVersion I'm not sure, but your CPANRatings review of that module seems to suggest that's the solution. :) http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/CPAN-Mini-LatestDistVersion Olaf Aha! You caught me with another memory failure! One of the rare times that I've used cpanratings -- and already it's disappeared from my brain. In any case, I have opened https://github.com/rjbs/CPAN-Mini/issues/13 in the hope of getting some improved documentation from rjbs. Thank you very much. Jim Keenan
Re: How can I regenerate a .minicpanrc?
> On Mar 16, 2017, at 7:20 PM, James E Keenan wrote: > Yes, I can't recall why I had it there. Probably something having to do with > CPAN::Mini::Visit::Simple. > > As my memory of this improves, I also recall that I had something in the > .minicpanrc to use this module from CPAN: > > CPAN::Mini::LatestDistVersion - Create a CPAN mirror with only the latest > version of each distribution > > Would this do the trick? > > class: CPAN::Mini::LatestDistVersion I'm not sure, but your CPANRatings review of that module seems to suggest that's the solution. :) http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/CPAN-Mini-LatestDistVersion Olaf
Re: How can I regenerate a .minicpanrc?
On 03/16/2017 07:08 PM, Olaf Alders wrote: On Mar 16, 2017, at 6:58 PM, James E Keenan wrote: Hi Jim, Could you just copy/paste it? For example, mine is currently: local: ~/minicpan remote: http://cpan.metacpan.org/ exact_mirror: 1 Thanks, Olaf. I guess that's the "default" .minicpanrc. But ISTR that at one point, on xdg's suggestion, I had something that pointed to a file whose name started with '06'. jimk Hi Jim, 06perms? You'd find that in the modules directory of a CPAN mirror. For example http://cpan.metacpan.org/modules/06perms.txt Not sure how that plays into your config file, though. Yes, I can't recall why I had it there. Probably something having to do with CPAN::Mini::Visit::Simple. As my memory of this improves, I also recall that I had something in the .minicpanrc to use this module from CPAN: CPAN::Mini::LatestDistVersion - Create a CPAN mirror with only the latest version of each distribution Would this do the trick? class: CPAN::Mini::LatestDistVersion
Re: How can I regenerate a .minicpanrc?
> On Mar 16, 2017, at 6:58 PM, James E Keenan wrote: > >> Hi Jim, >> >> Could you just copy/paste it? For example, mine is currently: >> >> local: ~/minicpan >> remote: http://cpan.metacpan.org/ >> exact_mirror: 1 >> > > Thanks, Olaf. I guess that's the "default" .minicpanrc. But ISTR that at > one point, on xdg's suggestion, I had something that pointed to a file whose > name started with '06'. > > jimk Hi Jim, 06perms? You'd find that in the modules directory of a CPAN mirror. For example http://cpan.metacpan.org/modules/06perms.txt Not sure how that plays into your config file, though. Best, Olaf
Re: How can I regenerate a .minicpanrc?
On 03/16/2017 05:47 PM, Olaf Alders wrote: On Mar 16, 2017, at 5:17 PM, James E Keenan wrote: Last month I was testing the latest version of CPAN module B::C. The testing process caused major damage to my machine. One of my FreeBSD VMs was rendered inaccessible. All of the .xxx configuration files in my home directory disappeared. I spent most of the next several days reinstalling the VM, restoring my .xxx files and backing them up in an off-site repository. I thought I was completely recovered until today. For the first time in about 6 weeks, I decide to run 'minicpan'. I typed the command by itself, as I have always done -- and only got the usage statement. I attribute this to the disappearance of .minicpanrc config file. I am now running 'minicpan -l . AFAICT, the minicpan tree is itself undamaged. Is there any way to simply regenerate .minicpanrc without triggering another minicpan update process? Hi Jim, Could you just copy/paste it? For example, mine is currently: local: ~/minicpan remote: http://cpan.metacpan.org/ exact_mirror: 1 Thanks, Olaf. I guess that's the "default" .minicpanrc. But ISTR that at one point, on xdg's suggestion, I had something that pointed to a file whose name started with '06'. jimk
Re: How can I regenerate a .minicpanrc?
> On Mar 16, 2017, at 5:17 PM, James E Keenan wrote: > > Last month I was testing the latest version of CPAN module B::C. The testing > process caused major damage to my machine. One of my FreeBSD VMs was > rendered inaccessible. All of the .xxx configuration files in my home > directory disappeared. I spent most of the next several days reinstalling > the VM, restoring my .xxx files and backing them up in an off-site repository. > > I thought I was completely recovered until today. For the first time in > about 6 weeks, I decide to run 'minicpan'. I typed the command by itself, as > I have always done -- and only got the usage statement. I attribute this to > the disappearance of .minicpanrc config file. > > I am now running 'minicpan -l . AFAICT, the minicpan tree > is itself undamaged. Is there any way to simply regenerate .minicpanrc > without triggering another minicpan update process? Hi Jim, Could you just copy/paste it? For example, mine is currently: local: ~/minicpan remote: http://cpan.metacpan.org/ exact_mirror: 1 Best, Olaf
