From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Wed May 30 19:10:52 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8473FEF3D1D for ; Wed, 30 May 2018 19:10:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamw@adamw.org) Received: from mail-yb0-x231.google.com (mail-yb0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4002:c09::231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2602673B0F for ; Wed, 30 May 2018 19:10:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamw@adamw.org) Received: by mail-yb0-x231.google.com with SMTP id o80-v6so6739820ybc.7 for ; Wed, 30 May 2018 12:10:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=adamw-org.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=lDAyJpHcOyLocAcTSAJgy6enJ0INDQymo+P2jTUGPfI=; b=xq4BsG/DBMARRLrHGlFJn6uVa+vnoN281mCERdmnsG554LNGE0QKP1XY41Y6zu+Kyo yZpS0lJRvtcV3Cixxl/9qTcFkziqI1JNRIv6W1Ac2ixSTL/4fynpfNkjdaBN1NEAkPUP QfpvhSfhazgMgf5uIEs/nxHjMEeaquS3AmqQ+/wW836mKuVGMB0pclCWYeBCiFTqgVoy q+FZ/FDgJ09UKB35a0x0H21MV5zAKIktoBLUip5vft197f5RYVbFVOF+50GyxxQwLBeG 1U4JYoHBBKDZb2cuYae/OE5kyA7b0o8MuxANemDpH0z/7stMVYfs6S6QgKPh7Z21zKhG Udqg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=lDAyJpHcOyLocAcTSAJgy6enJ0INDQymo+P2jTUGPfI=; b=KqF3dgXaeMVqmy5PzC3viJgF4bhDK+pNCmMc99kzqJsjDmZYUqq/Q9mhur78Cp+6kr 5E6sI7xuWJ5706em8LSIgE2i8z/c6AC/kWXVBIy69w4ePZQ8W58c04k1kSNzbwdEBmav +x71KFOWQLqPKz1/tZvP6LxtjUeZy/4DErkWGDoTendOcN5GqB6FAeCfnSLdQuu62Fe/ YAclXRm2m5IGrAqa/rDybhrVC65W1XnVENeMT6CEYdr3jnRk6J3n9gZ/1xsi0w/exrrN tHHc8YCPQw9BSilpuUVAZMPstNx5EVtN4/IYwjK5HF+7p1W2B9NNUAs+vn9hStBV17Ul oU8w== X-Gm-Message-State: ALKqPwc7sjKuXffeB+9N+QGCal/IvF6N7AeXQPhva7SBT+tMvTjdSyZc ui8mZdGHaW2kEC2aJESyGZ0WUP9RIr8OzraoKXJujrBswmw= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ADUXVKJ8Qem5o+Fm6newqD3OvvYh2sZ30hQXmgBOQnAZ8uRRrQ8+dT98OH11rS2aKAICyI678qp3q2GpVKoLFWHPSlU= X-Received: by 2002:a25:7690:: with SMTP id r138-v6mr2256590ybc.408.1527707451521; Wed, 30 May 2018 12:10:51 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <2c553d68-1e6a-a01a-03c4-d8c9119ba97b@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <2c553d68-1e6a-a01a-03c4-d8c9119ba97b@pobox.com> From: Adam Weinberger Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 13:10:35 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: search.cpan.org is going away (replaced by MetaCPAN) To: jkeenan@pobox.com Cc: kennedy.greg@gmail.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 19:10:52 -0000 On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 12:05 PM James E Keenan 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