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| author | Jesse Luehrs <doy@tozt.net> | 2012-06-17 11:22:59 -0500 |
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| committer | Jesse Luehrs <doy@tozt.net> | 2012-06-17 11:23:31 -0500 |
| commit | 7b203c2dafbfe0472fc3debc9a79fe9d959435ae (patch) | |
| tree | 71ddb97d580a74f5eafa74645059b6d9dcd15242 /Porting | |
| parent | e5dc53755b64ecafa7fe3cf49135252b12d56757 (diff) | |
| download | perl-7b203c2dafbfe0472fc3debc9a79fe9d959435ae.tar.gz | |
add note about minicpan mirrors and core-cpan-diff
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| -rw-r--r-- | Porting/release_managers_guide.pod | 5 |
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diff --git a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod index 6e758657b1..9dac56e54e 100644 --- a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod +++ b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod @@ -199,7 +199,10 @@ to see any inconsistencies between the core and CPAN versions of distros, then fix the core, or cajole CPAN authors as appropriate. See also the C<-d> and C<-v> options for more detail. You'll probably want to use the C<-c cachedir> option to avoid repeated CPAN downloads and may want to -use C<-m file:///mirror/path> if you made a local CPAN mirror. +use C<-m file:///mirror/path> if you made a local CPAN mirror. Note that +a minicpan mirror won't actually work, but can provide a good first pass +to quickly get a list of modules which definitely haven't changed, to +avoid having to download absolutely everything. To see which core distro versions differ from the current CPAN versions: |