From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 16 19:46:17 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA7CA1065670 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:46:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de) Received: from rz1.akoenig.de (rz1.akoenig.de [83.223.90.65]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64CF88FC19 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:46:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from franz.ak.mind.de (p5DDB17A1.dip.t-dialin.net [93.219.23.161]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "franz.ak.mind.de", Issuer "franz.ak.mind.de" (not verified)) by rz1.akoenig.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 213F31AE00C3; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:30:07 +0100 (CET) Received: from k75.linux.bogus (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by k75.linux.bogus (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-6) with ESMTP id p1GJTu1j030052 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:29:56 +0100 Received: (from k@localhost) by k75.linux.bogus (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id p1GJTtx1030051; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:29:55 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: k75.linux.bogus: k set sender to andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de using -f From: andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig) To: milki References: <20110211004338.GK81862@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <878vxnazqh.fsf@franz.ak.mind.de> <20110216095034.GF75783@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:29:55 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20110216095034.GF75783@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> (milki@rescomp.berkeley.edu's message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:50:34 -0800") Message-ID: <87wrkz6amk.fsf@franz.ak.mind.de> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.org, cpan-discuss@perl.org Subject: Re: /modules/by-module not indexing new modules? X-BeenThere: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: maintainer of a number of perl-related ports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:46:17 -0000 >>>>> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:50:34 -0800, milki said: > On 06:48 Fri 11 Feb , Andreas J. Koenig wrote: >> We are tending to remove the whole directory because it's an insane way >> of maintaining information. The canonical way of indexing takes place in >> .../CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz > Is /modules/by-author also planning to be phased out? That is just one symlink: k@pause:/home/ftp/pub/PAUSE/modules$ ls -l by-authors lrwxrwxrwx 1 500 root 10 2006-03-26 09:30 by-authors -> ../authors And authors is the real thing. Under modules we have only a dozen files, thousands of directories and symlinks. -- andreas