NAME

cpan - generate an WAIT index for CPAN

SYNOPSIS

cpan [-clean] [-noclean] [-cpan url or directory] [-database dbname] [-dir directory] [-force] [-noforce] [-keep directory] [-match regexp] [-table table name] [-test level] [-trust_mtime] [-notrust_mtime]

DESCRIPTION

TBS

OPTIONS

-clean / -noclean

Clean the table befor indexing. Default is off.

-cpan url or directory

Default directory or URL for indexing. If an URL is given, there currently must be a file indices/find-ls.gz relative to it which contains the output of find . -ls | gzip. Default is ftp://ftp.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/CPAN.

-database dbname

Specify database name. Default is DB.

-dir directory

Alternate directory were databases are located. Default is the directory specified during configuration of WAIT.

-force

Force reindexing, even if cpan thinks files are up to date. Default is off

-keep directory

If fetching from a remote server, keep files in directory. Default is /app/unido-i06/src/share/lang/perl/96a/CPAN/sources.

-match regexp

Limit to patches matching regexp. Default is authors/id/.

-table table name

Specify an alternate table name. Default is cpan.

-test level

Set test level, were 0 means normal operation, 1 means, don't really index and 2 means, don't even get archives and examine them.

-trust_mtime / -notrust_mtime

If on, the files mtimes are used to decide, which version of an archive is the newest. If b<off>, the version extracted is used (beware, there are far more version numbering schemes than cpan can parse).

AUTHOR

Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@ls6.informatik.uni-dortumund.de>