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Wednesday October 12, 2005

07:11 AM

[ #27132 ]

Don't put anything important inside the directory CPAN::Mini is going to work on.

Repeat:

Don't put anything important inside the directory CPAN::Mini is going to work on.

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Re: (Score:1)

by Aristotle (5147)

. o O ( “Hmm, I’m going to need a lot of space for these files. Eh, I’ll just put them in /tmp for now.” )
From the original article... (Score:2)

by merlyn (47)
From the original article [stonehenge.com]:
=12= ## warning: unknown files below this dir are deleted! =13= my $LOCAL = "/Users/merlyn/MIRROR/MINICPAN/";

and from the text:
And, as the comment warns, this program owns the contents of that directory, and is free to delete anything it sees fit, so keep that in mind as you are specifying the path.
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- Re:From the original article... (Score:1)
  
  by cog (4665)
  
  So, basically, telling CPAN::Mini to put CPAN on / would be a bad idea :-)
  - Re:From the original article... (Score:2)
    
    by merlyn (47)
    Of the categories "smart things to do" and "other things to do", I'd file that under the latter, yes.
    
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