NAME
CPAN::Site - CPAN.pm subclass for adding site local modules
SYNOPSIS
perl -MCPAN::Site -e shellWARNING
This is not even alpha software and will be made obsolete by CPAN.pm extensions/plugins some day.
DESCRIPTION
This module virtually adds site specific modules to CPAN. The general idea is to have a local (pseudo) CPAN server which is asked first. If the request fails - which is the usual case, CPAN.pm switches to the next URL in the list pointing to a real CPAN server. The pseudo CPAN server must serve the files site/02packages.details.txt.gz and site/01mailrc.txt.gz which contain the site local extensions to CPAN. You must make sure that the pseudo server can satisfy the request for these files since a failure will result in CPAN.pm trying to fetch the site/* files from all the real CPAN servers in your urllist.
The included mkpackages script can be used to generate the local 02packages.details.txt file. The script does scan the distribution files for package names an version numbers. Note that lines looking like VERSION specifications are evaluated!
The Makefile.PL will ask you for the URL of your pseudo CPAN server. This URL added to the front of the urllist of the CPAN.pm configuration when using this module. Note that rereading the configuraion from the CPAN.pm shell will cause this URL to be dropped. You must add it again using
cpan> o conf urllist unshift your-URL-here
in this case.
To use the module, generate your pseudo CPAN on a anonymous FTP, HTTP or NFS server:
mkdirhier ~wwwdata/htdocs/CPAN
mkpackages ~wwwdata/htdocs/CPANThen use -MCPAN::Site instead of -MCPAN
perl -MCPAN::Site -e shellAdding modules
mkdirhier ~wwwdata/htdocs/CPAN/authors/id/ULPFR
mv /tmp/Telekom-0.101.tar.gz ~wwwdata/htdocs/CPAN/authors/id/ULPFR
mkpackages ~wwwdata/htdocs/CPANAUTHOR
Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@wait.de>