How can I regenerate a .minicpanrc?

[James E Keenan]

Last month I was testing the latest version of CPAN module B::C. The
testing process caused major damage to my machine. One of my FreeBSD
VMs was rendered inaccessible. All of the .xxx configuration files in
my home directory disappeared. I spent most of the next several days
reinstalling the VM, restoring my .xxx files and backing them up in an
off-site repository.

I thought I was completely recovered until today. For the first time in
about 6 weeks, I decide to run 'minicpan'. I typed the command by
itself, as I have always done -- and only got the usage statement. I
attribute this to the disappearance of .minicpanrc config file.

I am now running 'minicpan -l </path/to/minicpan>. AFAICT, the minicpan
tree is itself undamaged. Is there any way to simply regenerate
.minicpanrc without triggering another minicpan update process?

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

[Olaf Alders]

Hi Jim,

Could you just copy/paste it? For example, mine is currently:

local: ~/minicpan
remote: http://cpan.metacpan.org/
exact_mirror: 1



Best,

Olaf

[James E Keenan]

Thanks, Olaf. I guess that's the "default" .minicpanrc. But ISTR that
at one point, on xdg's suggestion, I had something that pointed to a
file whose name started with '06'.

jimk

[Olaf Alders]

> On Mar 16, 2017, at 6:58 PM, James E Keenan <jk...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> Could you just copy/paste it? For example, mine is currently:
>>
>> local: ~/minicpan
>> remote: http://cpan.metacpan.org/
>> exact_mirror: 1
>>
>
> Thanks, Olaf. I guess that's the "default" .minicpanrc. But ISTR that at one point, on xdg's suggestion, I had something that pointed to a file whose name started with '06'.
>
> jimk

Hi Jim,

06perms? You'd find that in the modules directory of a CPAN mirror. For example http://cpan.metacpan.org/modules/06perms.txt Not sure how that plays into your config file, though.

Best,

Olaf

[James E Keenan]

Yes, I can't recall why I had it there. Probably something having to do
with CPAN::Mini::Visit::Simple.

As my memory of this improves, I also recall that I had something in the
.minicpanrc to use this module from CPAN:

CPAN::Mini::LatestDistVersion - Create a CPAN mirror with only the
latest version of each distribution

Would this do the trick?

class: CPAN::Mini::LatestDistVersion

[Olaf Alders]

> On Mar 16, 2017, at 7:20 PM, James E Keenan <jk...@verizon.net> wrote:

> Yes, I can't recall why I had it there. Probably something having to do with CPAN::Mini::Visit::Simple.
>
> As my memory of this improves, I also recall that I had something in the .minicpanrc to use this module from CPAN:
>
> CPAN::Mini::LatestDistVersion - Create a CPAN mirror with only the latest version of each distribution
>
> Would this do the trick?
>
> class: CPAN::Mini::LatestDistVersion

I'm not sure, but your CPANRatings review of that module seems to suggest that's the solution. :) http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/CPAN-Mini-LatestDistVersion

Olaf

[James E Keenan]

Aha! You caught me with another memory failure! One of the rare times
that I've used cpanratings -- and already it's disappeared from my brain.

In any case, I have opened https://github.com/rjbs/CPAN-Mini/issues/13
in the hope of getting some improved documentation from rjbs.