puppet-cpan

Handle installations of cpan modules via puppet. The force parameter will allow stubborn modules to be installed unattended.

Usage Example

include cpan
cpan { "Clone::Closure":
  ensure  => present,
  require => Class['::cpan'],
  force   => true,
}

Package Management

To avoid conflicts with inhouse package management, use:

class {'cpan':
  manage_package => false,
}

Install Destination

To control target installation path, use:

class {'cpan':
  installdirs => 'vendor'
}

Any of site (default), perl and vendor are accepted.

To further control the location of installed modules, you can use local::lib:

cpan { 'Foo::Bar':
  ensure    => present,
  local_lib => '/opt',
}

This will install the module into /opt. Of course you need to adjust @INC of your code in order to use that new location, e.g. by using perl -Mlocal::lib=/opt myapp.pl.

You can also define the default value of local_lib for all cpan resources:

Cpan { local_lib => '/opt' }