Re: distroprefs, skip file -newbie questions

2009-02-16 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 06:01:49PM +0100, Slaven Rezic wrote: The distroprefs files are YAML files (usually) and used not only for exclusion of distribution, but also for all kind of setting interactive and noninteractive options... They can also be Data::Dumper-style files - kinda handy when

Re: distroprefs, skip file -newbie questions

2009-02-15 Thread Slaven Rezic
Mike mw...@yahoo.com writes: Where the rubber meets the road- What is the default full pathname of the distroprefs file for CPAN.pm? Can someone post a file they use as an example? Specify the directory within the CPAN shell with o conf prefs_dir /path/to/distroprefs and save with

Re: distroprefs, skip file -newbie questions

2009-02-15 Thread Mike
--- On Sun, 2/15/09, David Golden xda...@gmail.com wrote: Mike -- the directory is set from the CPAN 'prefs_dir' option. By default, I think it is ~/.cpan/prefs (unfortunately, on Windows, that's like c:\documents and settings\david\Local Settings\.cpan\prefs) My current

Re: distroprefs, skip file -newbie questions

2009-02-15 Thread Chris 'BinGOs' Williams
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 01:52:15PM -0800, Mike wrote: I see the documented method, but what I do not see is the default location of the INI file. In one place, it is said that CPANPLUS config is used, so I am confused. Yeah, the location where CPANPLUS stores it's configuration files,