cpan: pushy_https download mechanism
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Starting with version 2.29 of the cpan shell, a new download mechanism
is the default which exclusively uses cpan.org as the host to download
from. The configuration variable pushy_https can be used to (de)select
the new mechanism. Please read more about it and make your choice
between the old and the new mechanism by running
o conf init pushy_https
Once you have done that and stored the config variable this dialog
will disappear.Note: the 0 is not a bullet point, but the letter "o", an actual part of the command.
$ sudo cpan
cpan> o conf init pushy_https
Boolean. Defaults to true. If this option is true, the cpan shell will
use https://cpan.org/ to download stuff from the CPAN. It will fall
back to http://cpan.org/ if it can't handle https for some reason
(missing modules, missing programs). Whenever it falls back to the
http protocol, it will issue a warning.
If this option is true, the option C<urllist> will be ignored.
Consequently, if you want to work with local mirrors via your own
configured list of URLs, you will have to choose no below.
<pushy_https>
Do you want to turn the pushy_https behaviour on? [yes] y
commit: wrote '/root/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm'