minicpan man page

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 minicpan [options]

 Options
   -l LOCAL    - where is the local minicpan?     (required)
   -r REMOTE   - where is the remote cpan mirror? (required)
   -d 0###     - permissions (numeric) to use when creating directories
   -f          - check all directories, even if indices are unchanged
   -p          - mirror perl, ponie, and parrot distributions
   --debug     - run in debug mode (print even banal messages)
   -q          - run in quiet mode (don't print status)
   -qq         - run in silent mode (don't even print warnings)
   -c CLASS    - what class to use to mirror (default: CPAN::Mini)
   -C FILE     - what config file to use (default: ~/.minicpanrc)
   -h          - print help and exit
   -v          - print version and exit
   -x          - build an exact mirror, getting even normally disallowed files
   -t SEC      - timeout in sec. Defaults to 180 sec
   --offline   - operate in offline mode (generally: do nothing)
   --log-level - provide a log level; instead of --debug, -q, or -qq
   --remote-from TYPE - cpan remote from 'cpan' or 'cpanplus' configs

This simple shell script just updates (or creates) a miniature CPAN mirror as described in CPAN::Mini.

By default, "minicpan" will read a configuration file to get configuration information.  The file is a simple set of names and values, as in the following example:

 local:  /home/rjbs/mirrors/minicpan/
 remote: http://your.favorite.cpan/cpan/
 exact_mirror: 1

"minicpan" tries to find a configuration file through the following process. It takes the first defined it finds:

• Use the value specified by "-C" on the command line
• Use the value in the "CPAN_MINI_CONFIG" environment variable
• Use ~/.minicpanrc
• Use CPAN/Mini/minicpan.conf

If the selected file does not exist, "minicpan" does not keep looking.

You can override this process with a "config_file" method in your subclass.

See "CPAN::Mini" for a full listing of available options.

Improve command-line options.

Randal Schwartz's original article, which can be found here:

  http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col42.html

• Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org>
• Randal Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>

This software is copyright (c) 2004 by Ricardo SIGNES.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.