Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 13:10:35 -0600 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> To: jkeenan@pobox.com Cc: kennedy.greg@gmail.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: search.cpan.org is going away (replaced by MetaCPAN) Message-ID: <CAP7rwcieVdygHFw%2BThUDBb6Rm2p565eoENvn=f3qyYFfUCghGA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2c553d68-1e6a-a01a-03c4-d8c9119ba97b@pobox.com> References: <CAN1%2BP_1Lp=8hW6H1mPUZ3FDMgcQeh0uBOcJjw8G=AmUDnMsupw@mail.gmail.com> <2c553d68-1e6a-a01a-03c4-d8c9119ba97b@pobox.com>
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On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 12:05 PM James E Keenan <jkeenan@pobox.com> wrote: > > On 05/30/2018 01:53 PM, Greg Kennedy wrote: > > 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 > > > > Gret, thank you for calling attention to this. > > My hunch is that once search.cpan.org has been retired, we should take a > sample of the URL fields in the pkg-descr field and verify the links > they actually resolve to (as distinct from what they are currently > *expected* to resolve to). At that point, a mass find-replace becomes > feasible and testable. > > Thank you very much. > Jim Keenan Sunpoet already took care of this a few days ago. https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=470993 # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@adamw.org https://www.adamw.org
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