Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:55:04 +0800 (CST) From: Cheng-Lung Sung <clsung@FreeBSD.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/99554: [patch] suggestion about MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR for perl in porter's handbook Message-ID: <20060627155504.C3BE57E94F@FreeBSD.csie.nctu.edu.tw> Resent-Message-ID: <200606271600.k5RG0bOY096593@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 99554
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [patch] suggestion about MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR for perl in porter's handbook
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: update
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Jun 27 16:00:37 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Cheng-Lung Sung
>Release: FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
FreeBSD @ Taiwan
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD FreeBSD.csie.nctu.edu.tw 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #7: Thu Apr 13 03:20:20 CST 2006 root@FreeBSD.csie.nctu.edu.tw:/home/usr.obj/usr/src/sys/FREEBSD i386
>Description:
We encourage p5-* ports maintainer to set MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR to module's
upper-level name, but this is not documented.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- porters-handbook/book.sgml.orig Tue Jun 27 18:44:10 2006
+++ porters-handbook/book.sgml Tue Jun 27 23:49:25 2006
@@ -4561,6 +4561,32 @@
<sect1 id="using-perl">
<title>Using <literal>perl</literal></title>
+ <para>If <literal>MASTER_SITES</literal> is set to
+ <literal>${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN}</literal>,
+ then preferred value of <literal>MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR</literal>
+ is top-level hierarchy name instead of author's id.
+ For example, the recommend value for
+ <literal>p5-Module-Name</literal> is <literal>Module</literal>.
+ The top-level hierarchy can be examined in
+ <ulink url="http://cpan.org/modules/by-module/">cpan.org</ulink>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>The exception is:</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The top-level hierarchy name of module does not exist in
+ <ulink url="http://cpan.org/modules/by-module/">cpan.org</ulink>.
+ In such case, using author's id is more appropriate.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>The reasons is that author of the Perl module may
+ change, and it will cause <maketarget>fetch</maketarget>
+ cannot find the required files.</para>
+ </note>
+
<table frame="none">
<title>Variables for ports that use <literal>perl</literal></title>
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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