From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 30 12:48:55 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B231B16A401 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:48:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Hans.F.Nordhaug@hiMolde.no) Received: from sil.himolde.no (sil.hiMolde.no [158.38.83.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10E0D13C4B7 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:48:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Hans.F.Nordhaug@hiMolde.no) Received: from malle.himolde.no ([158.38.68.22]) by sil.himolde.no with InterScan Message Security Suite; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:48:49 +0200 Received: from harr.himolde.no (harr.hiMolde.no [158.38.68.20])by malle.himolde.no (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l2UCmq8u031613for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:48:52 +0200 Received: from harr.himolde.no (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])by harr.himolde.no (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l2UCmquA009800for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:48:52 +0200 Received: (from nordhaug@localhost)by harr.himolde.no (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id l2UCmqLr009799for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:48:52 +0200 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:48:52 +0200 From: "Hans F. Nordhaug" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070330124852.GA9718@hiMolde.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-imss-version: 2.046 X-imss-result: Passed X-imss-approveListMatch: *@*.no Subject: What to do with Perl Modules moved to BackPAN? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:48:55 -0000 Hi, list! I maintaining a port of a (very rarely used I guess) Perl Module, databases/p5-DMOZ-ParseRDF, which has been moved to BackPAN[1] - http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/P/PA/PAUL/ works, but http://search.cpan.org/dist/DMOZ-ParseRDF gives no hits. In the Makefile I use MASTER_SITES= ${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN} MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR= DMOZ but that doesn't work since MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN doesn't include any BackPANs[2]. So, my question, which is really a general one: Should we ask for the addition of a BackCPAN mirror to MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN or should we start updating old Perl Module ports with direct links to http://backpan.perl.org/? Regards, Hans [1] http://log.perl.org/2005/09/create_your_own.html [2] It seems some normal Perl mirrors also include a BackPAN mirror, for example ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/