cpan/CPAN - Update to version 2.38

2024-11-17  Andreas Koenig  <[email protected]>

	* release 2.38

	* unchanged from 2.38-TRIAL2

2024-10-13  k  <[email protected]>

	* release 2.38-TRIAL2

	* fix test skipping: bump minimum version of Pod::Perldoc::ToMan for running test t/97-run.t

2024-10-03  k  <[email protected]>

	* release 2.38-TRIAL

	* add documentation how to load your own CPAN/MyConfig.pm from you
	own path (thanks to Merijn Brand for asking the question)

	* try to fix tests that were failing on cpantesters

	* minor distroprefs maintenance

Author: thibaultduponchelle

Porting/Maintainers.pl

@@ -263,8 +263,8 @@ package Maintainers;
     },
 
     'CPAN' => {
-        'DISTRIBUTION' => 'ANDK/CPAN-2.37.tar.gz',
-        'SYNCINFO'     => 'tib on Fri Sep 13 19:07:54 2024',
+        'DISTRIBUTION' => 'ANDK/CPAN-2.38.tar.gz',
+        'SYNCINFO'     => 'tib on Mon Nov 18 08:14:50 2024',
         'FILES'        => q[cpan/CPAN],
         'EXCLUDED'     => [
             qr{^distroprefs/},

cpan/CPAN/lib/CPAN.pm

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # vim: ts=4 sts=4 sw=4:
 use strict;
 package CPAN;
-$CPAN::VERSION = '2.37';
+$CPAN::VERSION = '2.38';
 $CPAN::VERSION =~ s/_//;
 
 # we need to run chdir all over and we would get at wrong libraries
@@ -2087,6 +2087,17 @@ best placed in C<$HOME/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm>, because C<$HOME/.cpan> is
 added to the search path of the CPAN module before the use() or
 require() statements. The mkmyconfig command writes this file for you.
 
+If you want to keep your own CPAN/MyConfig.pm somewhere else, you
+should load it before loading CPAN.pm, e.g.:
+
+  perl -I/tmp/somewhere -MCPAN::MyConfig -MCPAN -eshell
+
+  --or--
+
+ perl -I/tmp/somewhere -MCPAN::MyConfig -S cpan
+
+Once you are in the shell you can change your configuration as follows.
+
 The C<o conf> command has various bells and whistles:
 
 =over