Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 12:53:55 -0500 From: Greg Kennedy <kennedy.greg@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: search.cpan.org is going away (replaced by MetaCPAN) Message-ID: <CAN1%2BP_1Lp=8hW6H1mPUZ3FDMgcQeh0uBOcJjw8G=AmUDnMsupw@mail.gmail.com>
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Found this news item today relating to Perl: https://log.perl.org/2018/05/goodbye-search-dot-cpan-dot-org.html In short, search.cpan.org is being retired on June 25, with the replacement MetaCPAN website to take its place. At that time they will transparently redirect all URL requests to comparable MetaCPAN pages. FreeBSD porting style usually requires that the URL for Perl modules (in pkg-descr) be set to something like... ##### WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN-Testers-Common-Client/ ##### While these links will (theoretically) continue working, we should think about a mass find-replace in all "*/p5-*/pkg-descr" URL fields to point to new MetaCPAN URLs. Also, the Porter's Handbook / portlint / etc would need to be updated to recommend using MetaCPAN URLs instead of the existing search.cpan.org links. I didn't see any other discussions on this in the past couple months of the mailinglist archive so I thought I'd raise the issue here :) -Greg
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