[oclug] UNIX philosophy (was Re: vim rulez...)

Michael P. Soulier msoulier at storm.ca
Thu Apr 19 08:26:50 EDT 2001


On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:30:49PM -0400, Dave O'Neill wrote:
> 
> This is something that the CPAN module is very good for.  You can run a
> local CPAN mirror (not necessarily sync'ed with the "real" CPAN)
> containing the packages you need to keep consistent.  Then, configure 
> your servers to use your local CPAN repository, and use a Perl script 
> and the CPAN module to keep things in sync.  Check out 'man CPAN' for some
> of what you can do.

    Hmm. Not a bad idea. I'll look into that. 

    Mike

-- 
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at storm.ca> 
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a
good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be
dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925



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