NAME

CPAN::Mini -- create a minimal mirror of CPAN

VERSION

version 0.10

$Id: Mini.pm,v 1.3 2004/08/26 14:52:08 rjbs Exp $

SYNOPSIS

(If you're not going to do something weird, you probably want to look at the minicpan command, instead.)

use CPAN::Mini;

CPAN::Mini->mirror(
 remote => "http://cpan.mirrors.comintern.su",
 local  => "/usr/share/mirrors/cpan",
 trace  => 1
);

DESCRIPTION

CPAN::Mini provides a simple mechanism to build and update a minimal mirror of the CPAN on your local disk. It contains only those files needed to install the newest version of every distribution. Those files are:

• 01mailrc.txt.gz

• 02packages.details.txt.gz

• 03modlist.data.gz

• the last non-developer release of every dist for every author

METHODS

update_mirror( %args )

 CPAN::Mini->mirror(
  remote => "http://cpan.mirrors.comintern.su",
  local  => "/usr/share/mirrors/cpan",
	force  => 0,
  trace  => 1
 );

This is the only method that need be called from outside this module. It will update the local mirror with the files from the remote mirror. If the trace option is true, CPAN::Mini will print status messages as it runs.

update_mirror creates an ephemeral CPAN::Mini object on which other methods are called. That object is used to store mirror location and state.

This method returns the number of files updated.

mirror_file($path, $skip_if_present)

This method will mirror the given file from the remote to the local mirror, overwriting any existing file unless $skip_if_present is true.

clean_unmirrored

This method finds any files in the local mirror which are no longer needed and removes them.

SEE ALSO

Randal Schwartz's original article on minicpan, here:

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col42.html

CPANPLUS::Backend, which provides the local_mirror method, which performs the same task as this module.

AUTHORS

Randal Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> did all the work.

Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org> made a module and distribution.

This code was copyrighted in 2004, by Randal Schwartz.