Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 15:56:55 -0500 From: Greg Kennedy <kennedy.greg@gmail.com> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> Cc: jkeenan@pobox.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: search.cpan.org is going away (replaced by MetaCPAN) Message-ID: <CAN1%2BP_1X33yRDM_27RzB_TFGospRANo18QHQ9oGJZ4f5LUGfXA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAP7rwcieVdygHFw%2BThUDBb6Rm2p565eoENvn=f3qyYFfUCghGA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAN1%2BP_1Lp=8hW6H1mPUZ3FDMgcQeh0uBOcJjw8G=AmUDnMsupw@mail.gmail.com> <2c553d68-1e6a-a01a-03c4-d8c9119ba97b@pobox.com> <CAP7rwcieVdygHFw%2BThUDBb6Rm2p565eoENvn=f3qyYFfUCghGA@mail.gmail.com>
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Thanks, looks like we are all set then! On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 2:10 PM, Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> wrote: > 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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