Found a nice module/script to keep a local copy of the cpan repository for those times when we aren’t connected to the internet.
Used cpanp to get CPAN::Mini
minicpan -r ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/ -l CPAN/
From cpan use this to add the local repository. (This is a pain to do with cpanplus
o conf urllist unshift file:///home/mgrimes/CPAN/
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