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Id: 14775
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: CPAN-Mini
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: NIKC [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Wishlist
Broken in: 0.36
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  Tue Sep 27 09:03:15 2005 Guest - Ticket created
Subject: minicpan doesn't create symlink trees
minicpan's very useful, but I've run in to one problem with it. FreeBSD's port's collection makes it very simple to install Perl modules from CPAN and stay within FreeBSD's packaging framework. It also provides an easy mechanism to specify your own CPAN mirror. I'd expected that I'd be able to run minicpan, and then point the ports collection at my local mirror. The problem is that the ports collection expects to download from the CPAN/modules/by-module/{top-level}/ directories. On CPAN, these directories contain symlinks back to the distribution files in the authors/id/ directories. minicpan doesn't replicate this tree of symlinks, so out of the box, I can't configure the FreeBSD ports collection to use the minicpan mirror. I've written a quick and dirty script that, given a minicpan mirror, replicates the archive. I need to clean it up and add documentation, but after I've done that would you like to roll it in to minicpan, or would you prefer it was kept as a separate tool?
  Fri Sep 30 04:45:20 2005 Guest - Correspondence added
From: nikc [...] cpan.org
[guest - Tue Sep 27 09:03:15 2005]: Show quoted text
> I've written a quick and dirty script that, given a minicpan mirror, > replicates the archive. I need to clean it up and add > documentation, but after I've done that would you like to roll it > in to minicpan, or would you prefer it was kept as a separate tool?
Cleaned up, and with documentation, it can be found at: http://jc.ngo.org.uk/trac-bin/trac.cgi/file/nik/CPAN/minicpan-symlinks/trunk/minicpan-symlinks N
  Thu May 01 22:21:00 2008 rjbs [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
I'm open to a patch to add this behavior, but I have no plans to add it myself. -- rjbs
  Thu May 01 22:21:02 2008 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Wed Mar 18 06:25:54 2009 dolmen [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Le Jeu. Mai. 01 22:21:00 2008, RJBS a écrit : Show quoted text
> I'm open to a patch to add this behavior, but I have no plans to add it > myself.
The work had already been done by NIKC. You just have to add his 3 years old minicpan-symlinks script.
  Sat Apr 13 08:32:52 2013 rjbs [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
This was imported in 2010 in c5973091 It would be nice to see a switch to minicpan to integrate the behavior. Otherwise, the program is included (but not installed) with the dist. -- rjbs
  Sat Apr 13 08:32:52 2013 rjbs [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'