Re^3: CPAN - As Seen From Space!

[Anonymous Monk]

in reply to Re^2: CPAN - As Seen From Space!
in thread CPAN - As Seen From Space!

Thanks, I have figured it out. Created source_data dir and put these files there:

01mailrc.txt.gz  02packages.details.txt.gz  all_ratings.csv

Other things I had to change were minor, like lib path in the script and some nginx settings after they were written by puppet. Puppet also was unable to install 3 perl modules, which I then installed with cpan.

[grantm]

When the script is run with the --refresh-data option it will download the latest version of those files.

My personal preference on Debian/Ubuntu systems is to never install modules directly from CPAN. I use dh-make-perl to download the tarball, and build a .deb e.g.:

dh-make-perl --build --cpan Math::PlanePath

The .deb package can then be installed with dpkg or dropped into a repo. For a small hobby project like this it could be seen as overkill (although it's actually quick and easy). For bigger work-related projects it's invaluable to know that the same module version is being installed in dev, staging and production (rather than getting the latest version when you do your production rollout and getting a nasty surprise).