NAME

create-backpan-index - create an index for a local BackPAN mirror

SYNOPSIS

 create-backpan-index   -basedir E<lt>pathE<gt>
                      [ -releases-only | -r ]
                      [ -output E<lt>filenameE<gt> | -o E<lt>filenameE<gt> ]
                      [ -order dist | age | author ]

DESCRIPTION

create-backpan-index will generate an index for a local BackPAN mirror. The basic usage is:

 % create-backpan-index -basedir /usr/local/backpan \
                        -releases-only              \
                        -o backpan-index.txt

The script supports the following arguments.

-basedir path

Specifies the path to the top of your BackPAN repository.

-releases-only | -r

By default the index will contain all files in your BackPAN repository. With this option, the index will only include the release tarballs / zip files.

-output filename | -o filename

The path to write the index in. If not specified, the index will be written to standard output.

-order dist | age | author

Specifies in what order the files should be included in the index. There are three options:

• dist

  Order by distribution, and then by increasing date. This means you can process the index dist by dist, and for a given dist you'll see them in order from oldest dist to most recent. This is the default ordering.

  This makes most sense when used with the -releases-only option.

• age

  Order by age of the file. If you generate the full index (ie not just release tarballs), then you'll see all files from oldest to most recent, regardless of what distribution they come from.

• author

  Ordered by author name (the author who did the release), and then by the release file name. This means that within each author you'll see all files associated with a particular release togethr.

SEE ALSO

BackPAN::Index::Create - the module that provides the functionality for this script.

BackPAN::Index - an interface to an alternate BackPAN index.

CPAN Testers BackPAN - one of the BackPAN mirrors. It provides four different indexes that are generated using this module. The script used to generate these can be found in the examples directory of this distribution.

REPOSITORY

https://github.com/neilbowers/BackPAN-Index-Create

AUTHOR

Neil Bowers <neilb@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Neil Bowers <neilb@cpan.org>.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.