Re: Installing tarballs with CPAN.pm

Hi Ovid,

We need what you describe, I really like the idea.

An alternative solution for now might be to stick the tar-ball in your  
mini-cpan mirror if you have one.
The solution in the long run might be a setup similar to minicpan,  
where you can point to a directory containing downloaded tar-balls.
jonasbn
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On 19/12/2007, at 15.37, Ovid wrote:

> Quite often I find myself in the position of having a tarball that I'd
> like to install with CPAN.pm. There are two reasons I'd like to do
> this:
>
>    * Let CPAN.pm find and install dependencies for me
>    * Take advantage of my highly customized CPAN installation
> requirements
>
> In other words, I'd like to do this:
>
>  $ perl -MCPAN -e shell
>  CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok (v0.65)
>
>  cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9102)
>  ReadLine support enabled
>
>  cpan[1]> install ./Highly-Experimental-0.01.tgz
>
> I've looked for a hack that would let me do this, but no luck. Is  
> there
> a way to do this that I just haven't seen in the docs?
>
> Cheers,
> Ovid
>
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