Deployment Image with Perl Packages

[CJason]

I am trying to figure out how to deploy the needed perl packages (best practice) out to multiple machines. On my local machine, I use perl -MCPAN -e 'install xxx::yyy'. I don't want to run this on every machine, I just want to deploy the necessary files for xxx::yyy (which may have many dependencies...resolved by the MCPAN install).

Is the best way to simply tar up /usr/lib/perl (or, something deeper down like /usr/lib/perl/site_perl) and untar that on the other machines?

I've never deployed perl before, so this is new to me (forgive my ignorance).

Thanks in advance!

 

[mikrom]

Is the best way to simply tar up /usr/lib/perl (or, something deeper down like /usr/lib/perl/site_perl) and untar that on the other machines?

I would do that probably in the same way as you proposed.
But there are other ways too - maybe Perl Archiving Toolkit would be the better way (but I personally have no experience with it).