In some computers in my company, only IE have access to Internet. So I would like to know if I can have a local copy of some CPAN modules in a local mirror. I heard of the CPAN::Mini module that can synchronize the local mirror with a public one.
How can I manually download the modules I want in my mirror with IE and configure cpan to look locally for the modules?
EDIT
I cannot use CPAN::Mini or other similar tools because only IE has access to internet. I need to replicate my mirror through IE first.
If you just want a partial mirror of CPAN, you can do this easily with OrePAN2.
orepan2-inject --simple Module::Name /path/to/darkpan/
This will also generate on 02packages file for you, which CPAN clients can read.
orepan2-inject --simple Carton darkpan
Wrote 1 from Carton
[INFO] Could not find useful meta from 'darkpan/authors/id/D/DU/DUMMY/Carton- v1.0.12.tar.gz'
[INFO] Scanning for provided modules...
/tmp/foo ∙ tree darkpan/
darkpan/
├── authors
│ └── id
│ └── D
│ └── DU
│ └── DUMMY
│ └── Carton-v1.0.12.tar.gz
├── modules
│ └── 02packages.details.txt.gz
└── orepan2-cache.json