Re: Re[2]: Quick start guide for CPAN

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

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Robert Menschel writes:
> Hello Bob,
> 
> Wednesday, July 28, 2004, 9:08:31 AM, you wrote:
> 
> BMJ> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 09:17:09AM -0500, Smart,Dan wrote:
> >> Bob:
> >> How do you pick decent mirrors when configuring CPAN.  If you pick a bad
> >> one, CPAN takes forever to timeout and hit another.
> 
> BMJ> Hmm.  In my experience it takes only an eon, but not forever. :-)
> 
> >> Do you or anyone else
> >> have a suggestion on a group of robust, high-speed CPAN mirrors?

My suggestion: use .edu ones near to you.  Those academic network
admins tend to be *good* ;)

> Related question, since it seems to be on-topic for this thread, if not
> the list,
> 
> I tried to use CPAN last week to update something, and failed -- seems
> the one and only server I had in my config was down.  I tracked down
> alternatives and replaced one with one, and got my update.
> 
> What's the best way to update the list of servers used by CPAN?

rm the "Config.pm" file somewhere in /usr/lib/perl5.  (what a mess.)

- --j.
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