Various of my and Andy Koenig's perl CPAN yml and patches. srezic and
Steffen Schwigon also collect some.
This belongs into ~/.cpan/
See perldoc CPAN for more details.
Lot of these patches contain fixes for wrong returnop parsing, -Dfortify_inc fixes and for cperl-specific types with Test::More.
The distroprefs system of CPAN allows the user to specify
extra informations and recipes in YAML files to either
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patch broken distros
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pass additional arguments to one of the four commands,
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set environment variables
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instantiate an Expect object that reads from the console, waits for some regular expressions and enters some answers
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temporarily override assorted "CPAN.pm" configuration variables
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specify dependencies the original maintainer forgot
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disable the installation of an object altogether
See the YAML files that come with the CPAN distribution in the
distroprefs/ directory for examples.
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/rurban/distroprefs
mv distroprefs/* ~/.cpan/
mv distroprefs/.git* ~/.cpan/
Optionally:
cd ~/.cpan
ln -s sources/authors/id/R/RU/RURBAN/patches patches
- Keep patches as subdir of authors. E.g.
sources/authors/id/R/RU/RURBAN/patches- Keep them for older releases
- yml name:
<AUTHOR>.<DISTRO>.yml- Delete outdated ymls. The AUTHOR part is questionable.
- No way yet to handle and merge distroprefs from multiple sources. git fork and merge?
- Either the patch or the yml should keep the CPAN RT ticket number, e.g. [CPAN #nnnnnn]