change of dist location @ CPAN
Sergei Vyshenski <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports |
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Hi, Leon Timmermans (LEONT), author of 147 perl modules at CPAN: https://metacpan.org/author/LEONT recently has changed location of his distributions from https://cpan.metacpan.org/modules/by-module/... to https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/L/LE/LEONT/... More precisely older versions can be found at BOTH locations, but newer versions can be found ONLY at the second location. Consider module Module::Build::Tiny as an example. Version 0.052 can be found in both places: https://cpan.metacpan.org/modules/by-module/Module/Module-Build-Tiny-0.052.tar.gz https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/L/LE/LEONT/Module-Build-Tiny-0.052.tar.gz But version 0.053 can be found only here: https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/L/LE/LEONT/Module-Build-Tiny-0.053.tar.gz Hence maintainers had better add a line to the respective port's Makefile, which is similar to: MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR= CPAN:LEONT Otherwise portscout will fail to warn about new versions. Have no idea if this change of location is typical to this particular author. And have no idea how this change could be automated to make all perl ports happy . Regards, Sergei