Synchronizing CPAN modules between different hosts
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For the second time this year I've taken on the task of setting up new servers as replacement for our old ones. Since the old ones run Debian and the freshly acquired ones have Ubuntu Server preinstalled on them, synchronizing packages between them was a breeze.
However, one of the old servers had quite a few Perl modules installed via CPAN and some of our applications that we were migrating to the new servers depend heavily on these little suckers. Naturally, CPAN packages are handled from the CPAN utilities and not the system's local package manager, which left me with a ...