CPAN::Mini::Inject - Inject modules into a CPAN::Mini mirror.

Acknowledgements

       Special thanks to David Bartle, for bringing this module up to date, and resolving the reported bugs.

       Thanks to Jozef Kutej <jozef@kutej.net> for numerous patches.

Bugs

       Report issues to the GitHub queue at

         https://github.com/briandfoy/cpan-mini-inject/issues

Copyright And License

       Copyright 2008-2009 Shawn Sorichetti, Andy Armstrong, All Rights Reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under  the  same  terms  as  Perl
       itself.

perl v5.40.1                                       2025-04-12                            CPAN::Mini::Inject(3pm)

Description

       CPAN::Mini::Inject uses CPAN::Mini to build or update a local CPAN mirror from a remote one.  It adds two
       extra features:

       1. an additional repository of distribution files and related information (author and module versions),
       separate from the local and remote mirrors, to which you can add your own distribution files.

       2. the ability to inject the distribution files from your repository into a local CPAN mirror.

Methods

Each method in CPAN::Mini::Inject returns a CPAN::Mini::Inject object which allows method chaining. For
example:

my $mcpi=CPAN::Mini::Inject->new;
$mcpi->parsecfg
->update_mirror
->inject;

A "CPAN::Mini::Inject" ISA CPAN::Mini. Refer to the documentation for that module for details of the
interface "CPAN::Mini::Inject" inherits from it.

"new"
Create a new CPAN::Mini::Inject object.

config_class( [CLASS] )
Returns the name of the class used to handle the configuration. Also see "default_config_class".

config( [HASHREF] )
With a hashref argument, sets the config data.

Returns the current configuration hash.

"default_config_class"
loadcfg( [FILENAME] )
This is a bridge to CPAN::Mini::Inject::Config's loadconfig. It sets the filename for the
configuration, or uses one of the defaults.

parsecfg()
This is a bridge to CPAN::Mini::Inject::Config's parseconfig.

site( [SITE] )
With an argument, set the site to use to contact CPAN. Returns the site setting, or, if the site has
not be set (or was set to undef), returns the empty string.

"testremote"
Test each site listed in the remote parameter of the config file by performing a get on each site in
order for authors/01mailrc.txt.gz. The first site to respond successfully is set as the instance
variable site.

print "$mcpi->{site}\n"; # ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN

"testremote" accepts an optional parameter to enable verbose mode.

"update_mirror"
This is a subclass of CPAN::Mini.

"add"
Add a new distribution to the repository. The "add" method copies the distribution file into the
repository with the same structure as a CPAN site. For example, CPAN-Mini-Inject-0.01.tar.gz with
author "SSORICHE" is copied to MYCPAN/authors/id/S/SS/SSORICHE. add creates the required directory
structure below the repository.

Packages found in the distribution will be added to the module list For example both
"CPAN::Mini::Inject" and "CPAN::Mini::Inject::Config" will be added to the modulelist file in the
repository.

Packages will be looked for in the "provides" key of the META file if present, otherwise the files in
the dist will be searched. See Dist::Metadata for more information.

• module

(optional) The package name of the module to add. The distribution file will be searched for
modules but you can specify the main one explicitly.

• authorid

(required) The CPAN ID of the module's author. Since this isn't actually CPAN, the ID does not
need to exist on CPAN. Typically, this ID uses "[A-Z]" and is three to ten letters. This is not
enforced, but other CPAN tools may not like other sorts of names.

• version

(optional) The module's version number. If you don't specify this. "add" will try to extract it
from the distribution.

• file

(required) The path to the distribution file.

$mcpani->add(
module => 'Module::Name',
authorid => 'SOMEAUTHOR',
version => 0.01,
file => './Module-Name-0.01.tar.gz'
);

"added_modules"
Returns a list of hash references describing the modules added by this instance. Each hashref will
contain "file", "authorid", and "modules". The "modules" entry is a hashref of module names and
versions included in the "file".

The list is cumulative. There will be one entry for each time "add" was called.

This functionality is mostly provided for the included mcpani script to be able to verbosely print
all the modules added.

"inject"
Insert modules from the repository into the local CPAN::Mini mirror. inject copies each module into
the appropriate directory in the CPAN::Mini mirror and updates the CHECKSUMS file.

Passing a value to "inject" enables verbose mode, which lists each module as it's injected.

"updpackages"
Update the CPAN::Mini mirror's modules/02packages.details.txt.gz with the injected module
information.

"updauthors"
Update the CPAN::Mini mirror's authors/01mailrc.txt.gz with stub information should the author not
actually exist on CPAN

"readlist"
Load the repository's modulelist.

"writelist"
Write to the repository modulelist.

Name

       CPAN::Mini::Inject - Inject modules into a CPAN::Mini mirror.

Original Author

       Shawn Sorichetti, "<ssoriche@cpan.org>"

Synopsis

       If you're not going to customize the way CPAN::Mini::Inject works you probably want to look at the mcpani
       command instead.

           use CPAN::Mini::Inject;

           $mcpi=CPAN::Mini::Inject->new;
           $mcpi->parsecfg('t/.mcpani/config');

           $mcpi->add(
             module   => 'CPAN::Mini::Inject',
           authorid => 'SSORICHE',
           version  => ' 0.01',
           file     => 'mymodules/CPAN-Mini-Inject-0.01.tar.gz'
         );

           $mcpi->writelist;
           $mcpi->update_mirror;
           $mcpi->inject;