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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:32:10 +0100
From: "Peter J. Acklam" <pjacklam@online.no>
To: cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: Perl CPAN module help
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Patrick Eisenacher <eisenacher@fillmore-labs.com> wrote:
>
>man CPAN has this to offer:
>
># list all modules on my disk that have newer versions on CPAN
>for $mod (CPAN::Shell->expand("Module","/./")){
>   next unless $mod->inst_file;
>   next if $mod->uptodate;
>   printf "Module %s is installed as %s, could be updated to %s from C
>PAN\n", $mod->id, $mod->inst_version, $mod->cpan_version;
>}
>
>which gives you a list of all installed modules, including the
>distribution ones.

No, no!  It only lists modules for which there exists a newer
version on CPAN.

Peter

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Peter J. Acklam - pjacklam@online.no - http://home.online.no/~pjacklam


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