how to use my local CPAN mirror?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 11, 2011, at 17:18, Mark E. Perkins wrote:
> On 2011/01/09 22:37, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Jan 9, 2011, at 15:46, Mark E. Perkins wrote:
>> 
>>> I maintain my own mirror of the CPAN.  That way I have ready access to
>>> whatever uninstalled Perl modules I might need when I am off-net.  I don't
>>> see a knob in MacPorts that allows me to point at my archive when I want to
>>> install p5-foo.
>>> 
>>> I can always use the cpan command for those, but I'd rather let MacPorts
>>> keep track of everything for me.
>>> 
>>> Did I just miss something?  Or is this not possible?
>> 
>> Either set the environment variable MASTER_SITE_LOCAL to the URL of your
>> local mirror, or edit it into the master_sites.tcl file. I use the latter
>> method, partly because I didn't know about the former until a week ago, and
>> partly because the former assumes all distfiles are in a single directory;
>> if they're not, you'll need to use the latter method. If you use the latter
>> method, you'll want to be using a Subversion working copy for your ports
>> tree instead of rsync, otherwise your changes will be wiped out next time
>> you sync. The wiki has instructions for switching your ports tree to a
>> Subversion working copy.
> 
> So if I
> 
> 	export MASTER_SITE_LOCAL=file:///path.to.my.cpan
> 
> MacPorts will assume that *all* distfiles are in that directory?

Yes.

Hm, I'm not certain if "file:///..." works. I suppose it might. In my case, I use an "http://localhost/..." URL and have my web server set up.


> But my
> CPAN mirror is just that, a mirror of the CPAN tree, so 'path.to.my.cpan'
> doesn't even contain any useful files for p5-<whatever> ...

Yes, so MASTER_SITE_LOCAL isn't going to be very useful here. I'm not sure what it's useful for at all, to be honest; see other thread:

http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2011-January/013519.html


> As for the subversion alternative, do you mean mirror_sites.tcl?  I don't
> have a master_sites.tcl, but mirror_sites looks like the right kind of
> content to me....

Yes, I meant mirror_sites.tcl; typo.