This folder contains the skeleton of a local CPAN
mirror, with only the immediate prerequisites
for cipres/perl. To add distributions to the 
mirror the authors/id subfolder must be filled 
with CPAN releases in a folder substructure of hashed 
author names. For example, to put Bio::Phylo v.0.12 
in the repository, create the following structure:

authors/id/R/RV/RVOSA/Bio-Phylo-0.12.tar.gz

A useful tool to automate this process is the 'mcpani'
command line utility from the CPAN::Mini::Inject 
distribution. Here is how I have mine setup:

I have the following key/value pairs in a textfile called
$HOME/.mcpani/config. Alternatively, this file's location
is specified by the $MCPANI_CONFIG environment variable.

The first line points to the root of the mini mirror 
(i.e. the containing folder of this README).

I use a temp folder for the "repository" (i.e. a store
for archives before they are injected into the mirror).

-------------------CONFIG STARTS NEXT LINE-------------------
local: C:/CIPRESwin/cipres-and-deps/cipres/framework/perl/cpan
remote: ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN
repository: C:/tmp
passive: yes
dirmode: 0755
-----------------CONFIG ENDED PREVIOUS LINE, CUT ABOVE-------

I can then add an archive to the repository like so:

$ mcpani --add --module Math::Random --authorid GROMMEL --modversion 0.69 --file Math-Random-0.69.tar.gz

...and inject the repository's contents into the mirror
(i.e. this folder and subfolders) like so:

$ mcpani --inject