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Which tells you how to duplicate that particular installtions... Thbis is NOT recommended...
Why?
Granted, it is somewhat different from what the OP asked for. He had a list of tgz files to install. Autobundle lists all the modules that are installed on a given perl.
The OP may no longer have access to the original installation.
Assuming that the OP has no objection to the tgz files being downloaded from CPAN, autobundle is pretty close. I have made bundle files explicitly, rather than using autobundle, when I want to get an installation up to speed rapidly. Although I find them easier to work with when I don't need to specify particular versions of modules, which is rare anyway.
Writing an appropriate Perl script to automate this process will get the installation up to speed just as fast -- then the OP could use autobundle to get those module more up-to-date.
I usually split the modules between two bundles, one of modules whose installations ask questions, and one which doesn't. Then I can run the first one, get the questions out of the way, and then run the second one while I do other stuff.
I have used autobundle many times (probably thousands - which, granted, is probably not as much as others) and in more than 80% of the installations there were dependencies which broke the automatic unattended installation.
But, this is all based upon personal experience - so your mileage may vary. I am sure many Perl developers have no trouble with CPAN and I am sure that statistically these issues are all more or less platform related - environment related - not having appropriate settings and what not - not having all the "needed" OpSys programs, RDBMS, or GUI of the week installed.
At any rate - with ~200 modules - this procedure is not trivial; especially if the more "hard-headed" modules are needed (Storable, DBI, et al.) I suggested several procedures to attack the problem -- I myself use CPAN frequently and I also install modules by hand when CPAN fails to install a module - like GD -- it has always failed to install GD on my Solaris 9 system even though I have all the pre-requisites.
Not all software will work 100% on all ported systems.
Cheers :) -Sx-
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