<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thank-you Geoff, this is exactly what I was looking for.<DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <BR> You wouldn't happen to know how to setup a local CPAN mirror?<BR> Note that I only need to inject some specific packages, so it would be nice to not have to sync every other package which is available from a normal CPAN mirror.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>OK you can do this by CPAN modules.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But remember - you will STILL need to have special versions or names (just like you do in Debian) - all package systems try and install the newest version, so you will have to choose a version number that is always greater than the CPAN version.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>All you have to do is set 'urllist' to two URLs, where yours is probably first. This is common when you want to install from CDRom and remotely.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This is well documented in "perldoc CPAN"</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You can do it interactively by typing:</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>"conf urllist push <A href="file://localhost/CDROM/CPAN">file://localhost/CDROM/CPAN</A>"</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Alternatively you can use CPAN::Mini - to create a minimal mirror of CPAN.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>CPAN::Site - is almost exactly what you want - although I am not sure if it has not already been replaced by bits of CPAN generally.</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>"<FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">This module virtually adds site specific modules to CPAN. The general idea is to have a local (pseudo) CPAN server which is asked first."</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV>More info on all of the above is on CPAN (The archive, not the module) :-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Scooter</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica">--<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica">* - *<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.osdc.com.au">http://www.osdc.com.au</A> - Open Source Developers Conference * - *</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica">Scott Penrose</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica">Open source developer</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica"><A href="http://linux.dd.com.au">http://linux.dd.com.au</A>/</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica"><A href="mailto:scottp@dd.com.au">scottp@dd.com.au</A></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica; min-height: 13.0px"><BR></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica">Dismaimer: Open sauce usually ends up never coming out (of the bottle).</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica; min-height: 13.0px"><BR></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica">Please do not send me Word or PowerPoint attachments.</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica">See <A href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html</A></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica; min-height: 13.0px"><BR></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica">Microsoft is not the answer. 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