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

[Greg Kennedy]

Thanks, looks like we are all set then!

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 2:10 PM, Adam Weinberger <adamw at adamw.org> wrote:
> 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
>
> # Adam
>
>
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