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+2  Q: 

How can I get list of mirrors in newest CPAN.pm?

In old CPANs, when you run it first time, it asked you for the continent/country your're in, and then gave you a way to choose mirror.

Now it doesn't ask this question! I can of course find mirror manually, and put it in urllist, but the geographical browsing in CPAN was really handy, but I can't seem to be able to get it any longer.

Was this feature removed, or am I simply missing something?

+1  A: 

According to the documentation, you have to set this manually. A list of mirrors is avaliable here

dsm  2009-09-14 12:42:08
I know, that I can do it manually. I'm just asking if there is a way to somehow run the ability that *was* (or perhaps still is, but I can't find it) in CPAN.
depesz  2009-09-14 13:08:25
+4  A: 

Try entering o conf init urllist into the CPAN shell. This gives me the geographical menu you are looking for. (I've got cpan script version 1.9; CPAN.pm version 1.9402; perl, v5.10.0 built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi)

Gaurav  2009-09-15 07:10:22
Perfect. Thanks.
depesz  2009-09-15 08:05:11

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