Description

This cookbook configures the machine as a mirror of http://cpan.org/.

Requirements

Platform

Ubuntu 13.04 (that's all we support at /dev/fort for now, so that's all I've tested.)

Attributes

Cookbook attributes are named under the cpan_mirror namespace.

node['cpan_mirror']['user'] - user to host CPAN mirror as, defaults to fort
node['cpan_mirror']['data_dir'] - directory to store CPAN mirror in, defaults to '/data/cpan'
node['cpan_mirror']['apache']['listen_hostname'] - Hostname to listen on for CPAN Apache virtualhost, defaults to '*'
node['cpan_mirror']['apache']['listen_port'] - Port to listen on for CPAN Apache virtualhost, defaults to '80'

Recipes

The main entrypoint for this cookbook is the default recipe.

Usage

Include cpan-mirror and it will start replicating http://cpan.org. This will take a very long time (probably the best part of a day), and require tens of gigabytes of storage. You have been warned.

You can keep an eye on the mirroring progress by running tailing /var/log/upstart/cpan-mirror.log.

TODO

client recipe