[Chicago-talk] CPAN force install through API

[JT Smith]

I have a whole pile of perl modules that I need to install on various servers from time 
to time. To save time I've written a script that installs them for me. A couple of them 
though, fail one of their's tests, and therefore don't install. The test it's failing on 
doesn't apply to what I'm doing so I just want to force through it. Is there any way to 
do this in a scriptable way. If I was in the CPAN shell I'd just type 'force install 
BSD::Resource'

I've tried:

perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN->install("BSD::Resource");' (doesn't force)
perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN->force_install("BSD::Resource");' (fails, method doesn't exist)
perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN->force-install("BSD::Resource");' (doesn't force)
perl -MCPAN -e 'force install BSD::Resource'  (doesn't force)

Is there an o conf parameter I need to set or something? Appreciate any help.


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