NAME

mcpani -- A command line tool to manage a CPAN Mini Mirror.

SYNOPSIS

mcpani [options] < --add | --update | --mirror | --inject >

Commands:

--add               Add a new package to the repository
      --module      Name of the module to add
      --authorid    Author ID of the module
      --modversion  Version number of the module
      --file        distribution module

--update            Update local CPAN mirror and inject modules
--mirror            Update local CPAN mirror from remote
--inject            Add modules from repository to CPAN mirror

Options:

-h, --help          This synopsis
-H, --man           Detailed description

-l, --local         local location for CPAN::Mini Mirror
-r, --remote        CPAN mirror to mirror from
-p, --passive       Enable passive ftp for mirroring.
-v, --verbose       verbose output
-V, --version       Version information.
    --signing-key   See CPAN::Checksums $SIGNING_KEY

DESCRIPTION

mcpani uses CPAN::Mini to build or update a local CPAN mirror from a remote one, while also adding private or third-party distributions.

Configuration file

mcpani will search the following four places in order:

• file pointed to by the environment variable MCPANI_CONFIG

• $HOME/.mcpani/config

• /usr/local/etc/mcpani

• /etc/mcpani

By default, mcpani uses a simple configuration file in the following format:

local: /www/CPAN
remote: ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/CPAN
repository: /work/mymodules
passive: yes
dirmode: 0755

Configuration options

dirmode

Set the permissions of created directories to the specified mode (octal value). The default value is based on the umask (if supported).

force

Update modules even if the module list is out of data. This is from CPAN::Mini.

local (required)

Location to store local CPAN::Mini mirror

log_level

The logging level for CPAN::Mini.

passive

Enable passive FTP.

remote (required)

CPAN site(s) to mirror from. Multiple sites can be listed, with spaces between them.

repository

Location to store modules to add to the local CPAN::Mini mirror.

skip_cleanup

Do not remove old files in the local directory. this is from CPAN::Mini.

skip_perl

Do not mirror perl distributions. This is from CPAN::Mini.

trace

Enable trace logging. This is from CPAN::Mini

Command-line options

--add

--authorid the CPAN ID

--file the distribution file

--module the package name of the main module

-v, --verbose

--version the version of the distribution

-h, -H, --help, --man, -?

Output a help message and exit.

--inject

Inject the local distributions into the local repository.

-v, --verbose

--mirror

Update the local MiniCPAN by downloading the latest modules from the public CPAN (or the CPAN-like repo specified in the remote config. --mirror uses

-l, --local

-r, --remote

-v, --verbose

--update

This runs --mirror then --inject.

-V, --version

Output the version of mcpani and exit.

AUTHOR

Shawn Sorichetti <ssoriche@coloredblocks.net>

ISSUES

Report issues to the GitHub queue:

https://github.com/briandfoy/cpan-mini-inject/issues

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2004 Shawn Sorichetti, All Rights Reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.