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Yes, you must have the old version (Score:2)
Re:Yes, you must have the old version (Score:2)
Thank you! Turns out my solution didn't work, anyway. It went downloaded all the CHECKSUMS files ... then deleted them!
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
Re:Yes, you must have the old version (Score:2)
At least you were on the right track. Another 42 minutes or so, and you'd have ended up with my final version.
The key was not running mirror needlessly. I ended up with a multi-stage algorithm, described in the accompanying text. The result is that I don't try to mirror any CHECKSUMS for which I already have a local version and none of its associated files have been updated either, and that I don't ever mirror the CHECKSUMS more than once in a session. That keeps the fetches to a minimum. It's really rather slick in operation. I can update my mini-cpan over a 28.8 connection from a hotel with just a minute or two of overhead, plus the download times of the actual tar.gz files. (Now if only some people [perl.org] would avoid putting entire MP3s in their test suite... {grin}.)
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Maybe you can come up with a GPL-ed alternative to silence.
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers