Using Rsync and a bit o' Perl I have developed a latest version only mirror of CPAN. Its very crude but if people are interested I could clean it up a bit and let you have it.
I still find that its hard to strip CPAN down to fit on a CD ... but I am certain that there is some stuff in there that is so specialized that it could be safely excluded. Aside from a slow TCP/IP link - I like having the disk when I am running around with just my laptop or at a site where I don't have outside internet access. J On May 23, 2002 11:36 am, Boyd Moore wrote: > Because of slow tcp/ip connection, I would like to burn a cdrom of only > the last 2-3 versions of all the modules in the CPAN library. This cdrom > would be used to access CPAN on a intranet that has no outside > connections. Could you advise on how to selectively download the > modules? I can think of some ways using filters on the ls-al.gz file to > drive a rsync or ftp session, but maybe there is a better way. Thanks.
