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NAME

CPAN::Mirror::Tiny - create partial CPAN mirror (a.k.a. DarkPAN)

SYNOPSIS

use CPAN::Mirror::Tiny;

my $cpan = CPAN::Mirror::Tiny->new(base => "./repository");

$cpan->inject("https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/S/SK/SKAJI/App-cpm-0.112.tar.gz");
$cpan->inject("https://github.com/skaji/Carl.git");
$cpan->write_index(compress => 1);

# $ find repository -type f
# repository/authors/id/V/VE/VENDOR/App-cpm-0.112.tar.gz
# repository/authors/id/V/VE/VENDOR/Carl-ff194fe.tar.gz
# repository/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz

DESCRIPTION

CPAN::Mirror::Tiny helps you create partial CPAN mirror (also known as DarkPAN).

WHY NEW?

Yes, we already have great CPAN modules which create CPAN mirror.

CPAN::Mini, OrePAN2, WorePAN ...

I want to use such modules in CPAN clients. Actually I used OrePAN2 in Carl, which can install modules in github.com or any servers.

Then minimal dependency and no dependency on XS modules is critical. Unfortunately existing CPAN mirror modules depend on XS modules.

This is why I made CPAN::Mirror::Tiny.

METHODS

new

my $cpan = CPAN::Mirror::Tiny->new(%option)

Constructor. %option may be:

  • base

    Base directory for cpan mirror. This is required.

  • tempdir

    Temp directory. Default File::Temp::tempdir(CLEANUP => 1).

inject

$cpan->inject($source, \%option)

Inject $source to our cpan mirror directory. $source is one of

  • local tar.gz path

    $cpan->inject('/path/to/Module.tar.gz', { author => "SKAJI" });

  • http url of tar.gz

    $cpan->inject('http://example.com/Module.tar.gz', { author => "DUMMY" });

  • git url (with optional ref)

    $cpan->inject('git://github.com/skaji/Carl.git', { author => "SKAJI", ref => '0.114' });

As seeing from the above examples, you can specify author in \%option. If you omit author, default VENDOR is used.

index

my $index_string = $cpan->index

Get the index (a.k.a. 02packages.details.txt) of our cpan mirror.

write_index

$cpan->write_index( compress => bool )

Write the index to $base/modules/02packages.details.txt or base/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz .

TIPS

How can I install modules in my DarkPAN with cpanm?

cpanm is an awesome CPAN clients. If you want to install modules in your DarkPAN with cpanm, there are 2 ways.

First way:

cpanm --cascade-search \
  --mirror-index /path/to/darkpan/modules/02packages.details.txt \
  --mirror /path/to/darkpan \
  --mirror http://www.cpan.org \
  Your::Module

Second way:

cpanm --mirror-only \
  --mirror /path/to/darkpan \
  --mirror http://www.cpan.org \
  Your::Module

I hope that cpanm delegates the process of not only resolving modules but also fetching modules to CPAN::Common::Index-like objects entirely. Then we can hack cpanm easily.

I believe that cpanm 2.0 also known as Menlo comes with such features!

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2016 Shoichi Kaji <skaji@cpan.org>

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