mirror_cleanup - cleanups a CPAN::Mini mirror
mirror_cleanup
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Prints the version number and exits.
The main objective of this program is to reduce the size of storage required to have a CPAN local repository.
This program assumes that the same user that has a mirror setup with CPAN::Mini is running it.
Also, it expects that the user has the CPAN client configured to use a SQLite backend.
It will run over all the distributions available on the database, and check the corresponding directories on the mirror (right now hardcoded to /minicpan/authors/id/ but may change in the future): if there is any tarball that is not listed as the most current distribution for an author, it will be removed.
/minicpan/authors/id/
At this moment, it is unclear why those older distribution are still available, but when it does it is not for any particular distribution. It might be a problem with the mirror itself.
Nevertheless, since the mirror is intended to be used for CPAN::Reporter::Smoker and that only the most recent distribution matters, it will release some storage space.
This program should be considered experimental, may be there unknown side effects.
Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior, <arfreitas@cpan.org>
This software is copyright (c) 2017 of Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior, arfreitas@cpan.org
This file is part of CPAN OpenBSD Smoker.
CPAN OpenBSD Smoker is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
CPAN OpenBSD Smoker is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with CPAN OpenBSD Smoker. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
To install CPAN::Reporter::Smoker::OpenBSD, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm CPAN::Reporter::Smoker::OpenBSD
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install CPAN::Reporter::Smoker::OpenBSD
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.