NAME Gentoo::MirrorList - A programmatic way to access Gentoo.org Mirror Metadata VERSION version 0.01000101 SYNOPSIS my @mirrors = Gentoo::MirrorList->region('North America')->country('CA')->ipv4->all; my @mirrors = Gentoo::MirrorList->region('North America')->ipv4->random(3); my $mirror = Gentoo::MirrorList->region('Australia')->ipv4->random(); my @all_names = Gentoo::MirrorList->mirrorname_list my @australian_names = Gentoo::MirrorList->country('AU')->mirrorname_list; DESCRIPTION This module will download the most up-to-date copy of and parse it into an array of Gentoo::MirrorList::Mirror which you can then filter down progressively using the methods defined below to find, via code, any mirror that meets a given criteria. For efficiency, this module uses App::Cache to cache both the mirror list and the parsed representation of that list, and the data files are stored in ~/.gentoo_mirrorlist/cache/ METHODS Explicit Filters. All of the following self-filter the data set they are on. my $x = Gentoo::MirrorList->FILTER my $y = Gentoo::MirrorList->new() my $z = $y->FILTER x and y will be the same. y and z will be the same object. country ..->country( 'AU' )->.. ..->country( qr/AU/ )->.. See also "country_list" countryname ..->countryname( 'Australia' )->.. ..->countryname( qr/Aus/ )->.. See also "countryname_list" region ..->region('North America')->.. ..->region(qr/America/)->.. See also "region_list" mirrorname ..->mirrorname(qr/^a/i)->.. See also "mirrorname_list" uri ..->uri(qr/gentoo/)->.. See also "uri_list" proto ..->proto('http')->.. ..->proto(qr/^.*tp$/)->.. See also "proto_list" ipv4 ..->ipv4( 1 )->.. ..->ipv4( 0 )->.. ipv6 ..->ipv6( 1 )->.. ..->ipv6( 0 )->.. partial ..->partial( 1 )->.. ..->partial( 0 )->.. exclude_country ..->exclude_country(qr/^K/i)->.. ..->exclude_country('AU')->.. See also "country_list" exclude_countryname ..->exclude_countryname(qr/America/i)->.. ..->exclude_countryname('Australia')->.. See also "countryname_list" exclude_region ..->exclude_region(qr/Foo/)->.. ..->exclude_region('Foo')->.. See also "region_list" exclude_mirrorname ..->exclude_mirrorname(qr/Bad/)->.. ..->exclude_mirrorname('Bad')->.. See also "mirrorname_list" exclude_uri ..->exclude_uri(qr/Bad\.ip/)->.. ..->exclude_uri('Bad.ip')->.. See also "uri_list" exclude_proto ..->exclude_proto(qr/sync/)->.. ..->exclude_proto('rsync')->.. See also "proto_list" is_ipv4 ..->is_ipv4->.. not_ipv4 ..->not_ipv4->.. is_ipv6 ..->is_ipv6->.. not_ipv6 ..->not_ipv6->.. is_partial ..->is_partial->.. not_partial ..->not_partial->.. Terminating List If called directly on Gentoo::MirrorList will return all data possible. If called on an object that has been filtered, only shows the data that is applicable. country_list my ( @foo ) = ...->country_list countryname_list my ( @foo ) = ...->countryname_list region_list my ( @foo ) = ...->region_list mirrorname_list my ( @foo ) = ...->mirrorname_list uri_list my ( @foo ) = ...->uri_list proto_list my ( @foo ) = ...->proto_list Mirror Selectors The following methods will return one or more Gentoo::MirrorList::Mirror objects, They can be called directly on Gentoo::MirrorList or on filtered objects. On filtered objects, the filtration that has been performed affects the output. random my ( $mirror ) = ...->random() my ( @mirrors ) = ...->random( 10 ); all returns all Mirrors in the current filtration. There is no explicit sort order, but it will likely resemble parse order AUTHOR Kent Fredric COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2009 by Kent Fredric. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.