Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 14:00:36 -0400 From: James E Keenan <jkeenan@pobox.com> To: Greg Kennedy <kennedy.greg@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: search.cpan.org is going away (replaced by MetaCPAN) Message-ID: <2c553d68-1e6a-a01a-03c4-d8c9119ba97b@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN1%2BP_1Lp=8hW6H1mPUZ3FDMgcQeh0uBOcJjw8G=AmUDnMsupw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAN1%2BP_1Lp=8hW6H1mPUZ3FDMgcQeh0uBOcJjw8G=AmUDnMsupw@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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