fishy

Thanks to minicpan, I keep a local copy of the latest versions hosted on CPAN.
Running minicpan weekly, I keep it up to date.
My .minicpanrc file:

local: /home/netbook/minicpan/miniCPAN_20140405/

remote: http://your.favorite.cpan.mirror/

also_mirror: indices/ls-lR.gz

Now, I want to carry my local minicpan keeping it on a memory stick.
Changing .minicpanrc to:

local: /media/USB16GB/miniCPAN_20140405/

remote: file://home/netbook/minicpan/miniCPAN_20140405/

also_mirror: indices/ls-lR.gz

and running minicpan again, sweeps my minicpan onto my stick.
Fine.
Now, I can install any module offline (as long as specific version dependencies are satisfied).
Just mount my stick and either, first time running cpan:

...

Would you like to configure as much as possible automatically? [yes]

...

sites for you? (This means connecting to the Internet) [yes] no

...

Would you like to pick from the CPAN mirror list? [yes] no

...

Please enter your CPAN site: [] file:///mnt/minicpan

Enter another URL or ENTER to quit: []

New urllist

  file:///mnt/minicpan/


Autoconfiguration complete.

commit: wrote '/home/userOne/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm'

...

or by modifying manually ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm

...

'urllist' => [q[file:///mnt/minicpan]],

...

So, it's easy installing modules on offline systems or installing apps on user (e.g. /home/user) Perls.



UPDATE:

After discovering how to comment, my .minicpanrc looks like:

## web ---> local disk (computer A)

#local: /home/netbook/minicpan/miniCPAN_20140414/

#remote: http://your.favorite.cpan.mirror/

#also_mirror: indices/ls-lR.gz


## local disk (computer A) ---> USB

local:  /media/USB16GB/miniCPAN_20140414/

remote: file://home/netbook/minicpan/miniCPAN_20140414/

also_mirror: indices/ls-lR.gz

## USB ---> local disk (computer B)

#local:  /home/dan/miniCPAN/miniCPAN_20140414/

#remote: file://media/usb/miniCPAN_20140414/

#also_mirror: indices/ls-lR.gz