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Date:      Fri, 18 Apr 1997 22:49:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   perl5 MASTER_SITES list is arcane and somewhat bogus.
Message-ID:  <199704190549.WAA10814@time.cdrom.com>

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Is the perl5 distribution so rare that we have to go to places
like Finland and South Africa for it right from the start? :-)

Also, several of the paths appear to be out of date:

>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.is.co.za/pub/perl/CPAN/src/5.0/.
fetch: pub/perl/CPAN/src/5.0/perl5.003.tar.gz: cannot get remote modification time
fetch: ftp://ftp.is.co.za/pub/perl/CPAN/src/5.0/perl5.003.tar.gz: FTP error:
fetch: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://dong.math.ncu.edu.tw/perl/CPAN/src/5.0/.
fetch: dong.math.ncu.edu.tw: Unknown host

					Jordan



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