On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 09:17:09AM -0500, Smart,Dan wrote: > Bob: > How do you pick decent mirrors when configuring CPAN. If you pick a bad > one, CPAN takes forever to timeout and hit another.
Hmm. In my experience it takes only an eon, but not forever. :-) > Do you or anyone else > have a suggestion on a group of robust, high-speed CPAN mirrors? > > <<Dan>> Seems to me the most recent versions of CPAN list the connection type for each of the mirrors, but that's only a third of the story. The other factors are how busy the site is, and how up to date it is. Lacking any better guidance, you can try to choose mirrors near you. Canvassing the group for their choices is a good idea. The first mirror on my list is ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/. I've always found it current and responsive. Another tack you may be interested in is building your own local MINICPAN. Randal Schwartz wrote an article for Linux Magazine a couple years ago on the notion of keeping a copy of _the_latest_ version of all the CPAN modules. A nightly update keeps things current. It's also great when using a notebook computer that is not connected to the internet, say, while flying. The article is here: http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col42.html If you implement it, then your first choice is something like: file:///u/dnloads/MIRROR/MINICPAN/ I have it set up on my file server and is NFS-mountable by other machines on my local network. You can change your CPAN configuration from the CPAN shell ("man CPAN" for more info), or you can find your MyConfig.pm, probably in /root/.cpan/CPAN/, and edit the file yourself. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Jesus built a bridge with two boards and three nails.
