Here is a session with ppm concerning repositories.
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ppm
PPM - Programmer's Package Manager version 3.0.1.
Copyright (c) 2001 ActiveState SRL. All Rights Reserved.
Entering interactive shell. Using Term::ReadLine::Stub as readline lib
+rary.
Profile tracking is not enabled. If you save and restore profiles manu
+ally,
your profile may be out of sync with your computer. See 'help profile'
+ for
more information.
Type 'help' to get started.
ppm> rep
Repositories:
[1] ActiveState PPM2 Repository
[2] ActiveState Package Repository
[3] Jenda
[4] CPAN
[5] DaveRoth
[6] Local
ppm> man rep
Unknown command 'man'; type 'help' for a list of commands.
ppm> help rep
repository -- Repository Control
Synopsis
rep Displays all repositories
rep add [name] <location> Adds a new repository; makes it active
rep delete <name or num> Deletes specified repository
rep describe <name or num> Displays information about the specifi
+ed
repository
rep rename <name or num> <name>
Renames the specified repository to
the given name
rep on <name> Activates the specified repository
rep off <name or num> Removes the repository from the active
+ list
rep up <name or num> Moves the specified repository up one
rep down <name or num> Moves the specified repository down on
+e
Description
The *repository* (or *rep*) command controls two lists or reposito
+ries:
1 The list of "active" repositories. This is the list of reposit
+ories
used by *search*, *install*, *upgrade*, and *verify*.
2 The list of all known repositories. You can designate a reposi
+tory
"inactive", which means PPM will not use it in any commands.
If no arguments are given, the rep command will list the active
repositories defined in the PPM settings. The order is significant
+: when
installing a package, PPM will try the first repository, then the
second, and so on, until it find the package you asked for. When
searching, PPM merges the results of all the repositories together
+, so
the order is less important (see the *search* command).
For example, when you enter:
rep
PPM3 will return something resembling this:
Repositories:
[1] ActiveCD
[2] ActiveState Package Repository
[ ] An inactive repository
In the example above, entering 'rep off 2' will disable the second
repository (the ActiveStat Package Repository). To add another
repository:
rep add [options] <NAME> <LOCATION>
The following options are available for the 'add' command:
* -username
* -password
These options allow you to specify a username and password to be u
+sed
when logging into a repository. Currently, these are only used for
+ FTP
and WWW repositories.
For example:
rep add "EZE" http://foo.com/MyPPMPackages
with "EZE" being the name of the repository (for easy reference) a
+nd the
location noted by the http location. If you were to enter the rep
command again, you would see:
ppm> rep
Repositories:
[1] ActiveCD
[2] ActiveState Package Repository
[3] EZE
[ ] An inactive repository
To move the new repository to the top of the Active list, you woul
+d
type:
ppm> rep up EZE
Repositories:
[1] ActiveCD
[2] EZE
[3] ActiveState Package Repository
[ ] An inactive repository
ppm> rep up EZE
Repositories:
[1] EZE
[2] ActiveCD
[3] ActiveState Package Repository
[ ] An inactive repository
To disable the ActiveCD repository temporarily, enter the followin
+g:
ppm> rep off ActiveCD
Repositories:
[1] EZE
[2] ActiveState Package Repository
[ ] ActiveCD
[ ] An inactive repository
To describe a repository, refer to it either by name, or by the nu
+mber
displayed next to the repository in the Active Repositories list.
+You
must refer to inactive repositories by their full name.
ppm> rep describe 2
Describing Active Repository 2:
Name: ActiveState Package Repository
Location: http://ppm.ActiveState.com/cgibin/PPM/...
Type: PPMServer 2.00
ppm> rep describe ActiveCD
Describing Inactive Repository:
Name: ActiveCD
Location: F:\PPMPackages\5.8plus
Type: Local Directory
To re-activate the ActiveCD repository, use the *rep on* command.
+You
must refer to inactive repositories by name, not number.
ppm> rep on ActiveCD
Active Repositories:
[1] EZE
[2] ActiveState Package Repository
[3] ActiveCD
[ ] An inactive repository
Repository Types
PPM3 supports several types of package repositories:
1. PPM Server 3.0
ActiveState's SOAP-driven package server. Because all searches
+ are
done server-side, the server can deliver much richer informati
+on
about packages than other repositories.
2. PPM Server 2.0
The SOAP server designed for PPM version 2. PPM3 ships with th
+e PPM2
repository as well as the PPM3 repository, so you can use eith
+er.
Simple searches are performed server-side. If your search is t
+oo
complicated for the server, PPM3 will download the package sum
+mary
and search by itself.
3. Web Repositories
Older versions of PPM used non-SOAP repositories (directories
+full
of PPD files accessible using a web browser). Over the history
+ of
PPM, there have been several different ways of organising the
+files
so that PPM can search for packages properly. PPM3 tries to do
+wnload
a summary file first -- if that fails, it gets the directory i
+ndex.
It parses the summary or the index, and caches it. Searches ar
+e done
from the cache.
4. FTP Repositories
FTP is another way of exposing a directory full of PPD files.
+PPM3
consideres FTP repositories a subset of Web repositories. Trea
+t them
as identical: PPM3 downloads the summary or the "index" (file
listing in this case), parses it, and then searches from it.
5. Local Repositories
To support installing packages from the ActiveCD, a local dire
+ctory
can be a repository. PPM3 searches the files in the directory.
+ All
valid path formats are supported, including UNC paths.
ppm> rep describe cpan
Describing Active Repository 4:
Name: CPAN
Location: http://www.cpan.org/modules/01modules.index.html
Type: Webpage
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