Is it possible to transfer a list of Perl installed packages to another machine and mark for installation in ActiveState's ActivePerl?

Question

So we are migrating servers. Arghh. There is a lot of Perl stuff on one machine that we need to set up on another one.

Is there a way to export / import a list of all packages that are installed so that I can install them on the new server instead of looking up one by one? (using ActivePerl)

Answer 1

If you are using ppm, you can use ppm profile commands. You can store a list of installed packages via

ppm profile save my_modules.xml

and restore on another machine with

ppm profile restore my_modules.xml

Answer 2

cpan -a

will create a Bundle of all your installed packages, which can be moved to your CPAN directory on the other system and installed there.

I did this once, a few years ago, and it seemed to work then.