On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Jonathan Yu <jaw...@cpan.org> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Dana Hudes <dhu...@hudes.org> wrote: >> But you can't use CPAN.pm on the Backpan. > Can't you? It's just a mirror, so if you point CPAN.pm to the backpan, > you should be able to install packages from there (though to get the > version you want you'll need to specify the author/package name > manually I think).
As always with perl, "it depends". They are laid out just as a normal CPAN repository, so if you have one in your urllist, something specified as author/distribution.tar.gz might well resolve. *However*, they don't necessarily have up-to-date index files. Compare timestamps on 02packages.details.txt http://backpan.cpan.org/modules/ http://backpan.perl.org/modules/ Anything in your urllist might at some point be used for an index, so make sure you use backpan.cpan.org and not backpan.perl.org since the former seems to keep other necessary CPAN index files up-to-date. -- David
