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David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> writes: > On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 10:51:41AM +0200, Steffen Schwigon wrote: >> I used CPAN::Mini a lot but now start using *real* CPAN mirrors for >> the distroprefs mechanism that CPAN.pm provides (needed to work around >> any known problem on CPAN). > > You can, of course, use distroprefs with any CPAN-like mirror, > including a mini-CPAN. Technically yes. But the existing distroprefs yaml files maintained by ANDK in CPAN (and reused by me) are not synced in CPAN::Mini. I once synced it manually with rsync on top of a CPAN::Mini mirror but I got tired by that eventually. Kind regards, Steffen -- Steffen Schwigon <ss5@renormalist.net> Dresden Perl Mongers <http://dresden-pm.org/>Thread Previous | Thread Next