CPAN-OUTDATED(1)

NAME
cpan-outdated - detect outdated CPAN modules in your environment

SYNOPSIS
    # print the list of distribution that contains outdated modules
    % cpan-outdated

    # print the list of outdated modules in packages
    % cpan-outdated -p

    # verbose
    % cpan-outdated --verbose

    # alternate mirrors
    % cpan-outdated --mirror file:///home/user/minicpan/

    # additional module path(same as cpanminus)
    % cpan-outdated -l extlib/
    % cpan-outdated -L extlib/

    # install with cpan
    % cpan-outdated | xargs cpan -i

    # install with cpanm
    % cpan-outdated    | cpanm
    % cpan-outdated -p | cpanm

DESCRIPTION
This script prints the list of outdated CPAN modules in your machine.

It's same feature of 'CPAN::Shell->r', but "cpan-outdated" is much faster and uses less memory.

This script can be integrated with cpanm command.

PRINTING PACKAGES VS DISTRIBUTIONS
This script by default prints the outdated distribution as in the CPAN distro format, i.e: "A/AU/AUTHOR/Distribution-Name-0.10.tar.gz" so you can pipe into CPAN installers, but with "-p" option it can be twaked to print the module's package names.

For some tools such as cpanm installing from packages could be a bit more useful since you can track to see the old version number where you upgrade from.

AUTHOR
Tokuhiro Matsuno

LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2009 Tokuhiro Matsuno.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO
CPAN

App::cpanminus

If you want to see what's changed for modules that require upgrades, use cpan-listchanges