Mirroring CPAN in your laptop
For some years now, I always have a full CPAN mirror on my laptop. I work a lot offline and I like to have it around.
Until today I did a full rsync from a public mirror from my ISP, but Nuno sent me a script to mirror only the latest versions of each module but I never got around to use it.
But I noticed that the script he sent me is now (well, I noticed it today...) on CPAN itself, so I just did:
$ sudo bash # cpan CPAN::Mini # cd /sw # mv cpan cpan.full # mkdir cpan # minicpan -l /sw/cpan/ -r file://sw/cpan.full/ # du -hs cpan cpan.full 409M cpan 3.2G cpan.full
hmms... 1.8Gb free space... nice... I keep it up-to-date with minicpan -l /sw/cpan/ -r ftp://ftp.ip.pt/pub/perl/.
