If the mountain does not come to the prophet, the prophet has to come to the mountain.You travel and don't have Internet access - but want to install some CPAN modules?
Back in my early days, when I started with Perl (around 1996), I did not have an Internet connection. But I was allowed to use it at my local university. If I wanted to install some CPAN modules, I had to download them and bring them home - on floppy disk! Too bad, if I forgot a dependency ... :)
Later I wrote a script which would fetch all "current" modules and burn them on CD. (USB sticks didn't exist then - or at least I didn't have one.) That worked quite well and missing dependencies were no longer a problem.
But even today (with Internet all around us), you sometimes are "offline". CPAN::Mini can help! It's command line client minicpan offers a comfortable way to sync (the current subset of) CPAN locally:
minicpan -l ~/minicpan -r ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/languages/perlThe local destination is specified with -l, the remote CPAN mirror with -r (see http://www.cpan.org/SITES.html for a list).
Sometimes (when there were network problems during downloads - usually a 500 error), I run it once again with -f additionally. This forces the redownload of all missing (or broken) files.
You can also put all your options into a config file (~/.minicpanrc or C:\Users\Uwe\.minicpanrc under Windows):
local: D:\minicpan remote: http:\\cpan.strawberryperl.com(This is my original config file from my Windows laptop.) So I just run minicpan or sometimes minicpan -f.
To use this with the CPAN shell, you have to change your urllist setting. In my case I changed it to file:///D:/minicpan/.
o conf urllist file:///D:/minicpan/ o conf commit
It is a really handy solution and extensions like CPAN::Mini::Inject and CPAN::Mini::Webserver make it even more useful.
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