search.cpan.org is going away (replaced by MetaCPAN)

[Adam Weinberger]

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 12:05 PM James E Keenan <jkeenan at 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

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