cpan-outdated - detect outdated CPAN modules in your environment
# print a list of distributions that contain outdated modules % cpan-outdated # print a list of outdated modules in packages % cpan-outdated -p # verbose % cpan-outdated --verbose # ignore core modules (do not update dual life modules) % cpan-outdated --exclude-core # alternate mirrors % cpan-outdated --mirror file:///home/user/minicpan/ # additional module path(same as cpanminus) % cpan-outdated -l extlib/ % cpan-outdated -L extlib/ # install with cpan % cpan-outdated | xargs cpan -i # install with cpanm % cpan-outdated | cpanm % cpan-outdated -p | cpanm
This script prints a list of outdated CPAN modules on your machine.
This is the same feature as 'CPAN::Shell->r', but cpan-outdated is much faster and uses less memory.
cpan-outdated
This script can be integrated with the cpanm command.
This script by default prints the outdated distribution as in the CPAN distro format, i.e: A/AU/AUTHOR/Distribution-Name-0.10.tar.gz so you can pipe it into CPAN installers, but with the -p option it can be tweaked to print the module's package names.
A/AU/AUTHOR/Distribution-Name-0.10.tar.gz
-p
If you wish to manage a set of modules separately from your system perl installation and not install newer versions of "dual life modules" that are distributed with perl, the --exclude-core option will make cpan-outdated ignore changes to core modules. Used with tools like cpanm and its -L --local-lib-contained and --self-contained options, this facilitates maintaining updates on standalone sets of modules.
--exclude-core
-L --local-lib-contained
--self-contained
For some tools, such as cpanm, installing from packages could be a bit more useful since you can track to see the old version number which you upgrade from.
Tokuhiro Matsuno
Copyright (C) 2009 Tokuhiro Matsuno.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
CPAN
App::cpanminus
If you want to see what's changed for modules that require upgrades, use cpan-listchanges
To install App::cpanoutdated, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm App::cpanoutdated
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install App::cpanoutdated
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.