From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Wed May 30 20:56:57 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 B7F6AEFD86A for ; Wed, 30 May 2018 20:56:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kennedy.greg@gmail.com) Received: from mail-io0-x22c.google.com (mail-io0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c06::22c]) (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 4D7DE79D73 for ; Wed, 30 May 2018 20:56:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kennedy.greg@gmail.com) Received: by mail-io0-x22c.google.com with SMTP id o185-v6so23293143iod.0 for ; Wed, 30 May 2018 13:56:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=zWuE/vivVMCrg0tcfP/lughIi2/Ufrxa5yJQmM7sBDA=; b=exMRohclYJr5eutjgxKobixJdbdTVb/nBsvFAzwek6mcFXZ6rgNu1H/l05z3Gn8jA0 t/H8nRVg1/aU6qYN5yz/ly4UXiy8SZpU0Fo/ZQvsYcsNDXkGAeVighQbjLdt5X2P9kHf gEkZx+m1jpgrw5FSm1IyStb+p5ySG+7pLPwsMFae9ZNBCGt+WRvhOaKW1b2JVc9+xWzx OTjkRehWdu+gnRKKBpp3gHJwO4Skwtt5VhdCuogzXOAYGcMq0nRRtTeWFMiogTpKrLuv O6z9OGLZbMbc7jq3lkIXFHsvtwKmhGUYwMwfEgrjB8JMo5Z7Aqzx335CMg5/jIS9ePgz uqqA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=zWuE/vivVMCrg0tcfP/lughIi2/Ufrxa5yJQmM7sBDA=; b=lmlZoICL8Zothl/SJpuNX8fRhLzPuEhnE3rzwti588zZeebe5HN6Z7DEn7buksz6zk tNk9m3edz00AMqHRwzdbdNLV4zIrLLX9ZntIMGnd8BCfs/V6hgRm15EvdadOu08xpqWW SDr61OwKffxYPTX/ptkYIvVEIuDW96y8LYpxCyDyMPFx8huIBRdwhxu9aQACbl2Hnfii KPyAMiigo0Ugb7vZvNxzsVYOt+162pp6locE/35Ss4KxFEqDgXRC7hcYPwd6+BOLdZeL THSybtPeByTJxz9M4mqVYWMzIhz724kDXqW89Ta2N/0v2c211MVTn8cqy8hy3p7jr5Nt Ggew== X-Gm-Message-State: ALKqPwdHH9c80JdQiHLxSG2lXHtXxyYc/XYUyht0CZTErYdFApyt9W13 ocGM9Iq6waO5UxJU6bsESev3dEPOnCOYFyXgrGI= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ADUXVKJ47KUUZdXdRdRJdkqdBYMwoag+wvbI8CfuHUbsoNQrtvd6knb3O5qlu6mFotpuzpbH+BOU7l2To2tSmLpjc9g= X-Received: by 2002:a6b:d312:: with SMTP id s18-v6mr3683506iob.284.1527713815840; Wed, 30 May 2018 13:56:55 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 2002:a6b:3a3:0:0:0:0:0 with HTTP; Wed, 30 May 2018 13:56:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <2c553d68-1e6a-a01a-03c4-d8c9119ba97b@pobox.com> From: Greg Kennedy Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 15:56:55 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: search.cpan.org is going away (replaced by MetaCPAN) To: Adam Weinberger Cc: jkeenan@pobox.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 20:56:57 -0000 Thanks, looks like we are all set then! On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 2:10 PM, Adam Weinberger wrote: > 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