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The options below perform functions not closely related to the quotidien process of building a package.

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=item B<--fetch=C<string-value>>

One of B<cpanplus>, B<cpan>, B<web>, or B<reg>, this parameter specifies which method to use when retrieving a module from CPAN.  Web retrievals are by parsing the CPAN website and may be faster though more error prone.  To use either the CPAN or CPA...

If your environment requires the use of a proxy, simply set the environment variable as indicated below in (bash format):

F<export HTTP_PROXY=http://user:password@host.org:8080>

=item B<--modules, -f =C<string-value>>

Lists of modules to be processed can be stored in a file.  Pass this parameter the name of your file.  The file should contain the name of each module in a single line and the modules can be specified in any of their many forms (e.g. url, path to tar...

=item B<--mk-rpm-dirs=C<string-value>>

This option allows the non-root user to easily set up his account for building packages.  The option requires a directory path where the RPMS, SPECS, etc. subdirectories will be created.  These directories will contain the spec files, binaries and th...

Additionally, the script will create architecture directories F<i386>, F<i686> and F<noarch> and allows the user to pass B<--buildarch> to also create a directory for that architecture.