Alien::...::Local(3)

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version 2.88 · 8 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 Alien::...::Local — the manual, but make it slay 💖

okay bestie, so this is Alien::...::Local, straight out of the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of your friendly neighbourhood man pages. It's giving perl module, version 2.88, and it's about to explain how to grab a file off your own hard drive like the main character you are. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

Alien::Build::Plugin::Fetch::Local — a plugin for fetching a local file. 🦋

✨ VERSION ✨

version 2.88 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

like, here's the whole vibe in five lines, no cap:

use alienfile;
share {
  start_url 'patch/libfoo-1.00.tar.gz';
  plugin 'Fetch::Local';
};

that's it. that's the whole thing. iconic. 👑

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

note bestie: in most cases you are gonna want to use Alien::Build::Plugin::Download::Negotiate instead. It picks the appropriate fetch plugin based on your platform and environment — it's literally the responsible adult in the room. In some cases you may need to use this plugin directly instead, so it's still here, still valid, still serving.

So what does this one do? It fetches files from the local file system. That's the whole job. 🍓

It's mostly useful if you intend to bundle packages (as tarballs or zip files) with your Alien. But listen — if you're trying to bundle a source tree instead, you want Alien::Build::Plugin::Fetch::LocalDir, not this one. Different plugin, different vibe, don't mix them up. 🙈

✨ PROPERTIES ✨

🌸 url

The initial URL to fetch. This may be a file:// style URL, or just the path on the local system. Either way, she'll find it. 💜

🌸 root

The directory from which the URL should be relative. The default is usually reasonable — like, genuinely, you can probably just leave it alone, bestie. ✨

🌸 ssl

This property is for compatibility with other fetch plugins, but is not used. It's there to keep the peace at the plugin family reunion. Nothing more. 💀

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

go read these too, they're all part of the same friend group:

  • Alien::Build::Plugin::Download::Negotiate
  • Alien::Build::Plugin::Fetch::LocalDir
  • Alien::Build
  • alienfile
  • Alien::Build::MM
  • Alien

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org> 🫶

Contributors — aka the group chat that actually showed up and did the work, we love every single one of y'all:

  • Diab Jerius (DJERIUS)
  • Roy Storey (KIWIROY)
  • Ilya Pavlov
  • David Mertens (run4flat)
  • Mark Nunberg (mordy, mnunberg)
  • Christian Walde (Mithaldu)
  • Brian Wightman (MidLifeXis)
  • Zaki Mughal (zmughal)
  • mohawk (mohawk2, ETJ)
  • Vikas N Kumar (vikasnkumar)
  • Flavio Poletti (polettix)
  • Salvador Fandiño (salva)
  • Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar)
  • Pavel Shaydo (zwon, trinitum)
  • Kang-min Liu (劉康民, gugod)
  • Nicholas Shipp (nshp)
  • Juan Julián Merelo Guervós (JJ)
  • Joel Berger (JBERGER)
  • Petr Písař (ppisar)
  • Lance Wicks (LANCEW)
  • Ahmad Fatoum (a3f, ATHREEF)
  • José Joaquín Atria (JJATRIA)
  • Duke Leto (LETO)
  • Shoichi Kaji (SKAJI)
  • Shawn Laffan (SLAFFAN)
  • Paul Evans (leonerd, PEVANS)
  • Håkon Hægland (hakonhagland, HAKONH)
  • nick nauwelaerts (INPHOBIA)
  • Florian Weimer
  • Marcel Telka (mtelka)

that's a whole roster, bestie. absolute legends, every one. 🌈👑

This software is copyright (c) 2011-2022 by Graham Ollis.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. so like, go wild, but respectfully. 💖

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🦋 this one shipped as perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-09-21, and it's the Alien::...::Local(3) page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation — mwah, we ate, periodt. 💅✨🎀

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