Re: Setting up Test::Smoke

Abe Timmerman wrote:

> Looking at ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN (which I suppose is the source for your 
> mirror) I cannot find any bleeding-edge sources there.
> 
> Is there no way you can make the CPAN-mirror machine also rsync or mirror 
> (part of) APC? I assume that the mirror machine has internet-access.

Which bits?  The machines are behind a firewall and I have had to go to 
enormous lengths to get the CPAN rsync to work even semi-reliably through it.

> You could set up the mirror machine to only "synctree.pl" (from cron) and have 
> your smoke boxen use sync_type => 'copy' (or even rsync  with two local paths 
> if that 'll work over NFS).
> 
> If you want more info on this, just let me know.

Yes, info on exactly what I need to pull would be great.  Another 
alternative is to 'p4 sync' as I have perforce access.

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Alan Burlison
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