Re: CPAN Search Going Away

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On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 12:55:27PM -0400, Dan Book wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 12:34 PM, Petr Pisar <ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 10:55:02AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
> > > See https://log.perl.org/2018/05/goodbye-search-dot-cpan-dot-org.html
> > >
> > > This means that the URLs included in RPMs of CPAN modules will need to
> > > change to MetaCPAN URLs.
> > >
> > > Please let me know if I can be any help making this happen.
> > >
> > I can mass update spec files for all Perl packages. I submitted this
> > Fedora 29
> > change request <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Perl_Move_to_
> > MetaCPAN>
> > and this packaging guidelines request
> > <https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/770>.
> >
> > If it is approved, I will try to do that before Perl 5.28 mass rebuild so
> > that the change becomes visible in Fedora 29 release.
> >
> > I propose rewriting both URL and Source tags like this:
> >
> > -URL:            http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPANPLUS/
> > +URL:            https://metacpan.org/release/CPANPLUS
> > -Source0:        http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BI/BINGOS/CPANPLUS-%{
> > cpan_version}.tar.gz
> > +Source0:        https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/B/BI/BINGOS/
> > CPANPLUS-%{cpan_version}.tar.gz
> >
> > Are you fine with it?
> >
> > While the old addresses will probably work, I believe it makes sense to
> > update
> > them because:
> >
> > (1) The less intermediary steps to the final location, the better. (Fewer
> >     things can get broken.)
> > (2) It's good when a user see the same address in RPM and in his web
> > browser.
> 
> 
> The changes look good to me. However, the source URL does not really need
> to be updated (it will still mirror the file); www.cpan.org is not
> changing, only search.cpan.org is. If there is any source URL using the
> search.cpan.org mirror that could be updated:
> http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/... ->
> https://www.cpan.org/authors/id/... or
> https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/...
> 
> -Dan

Do we know if files like /modules/02packages.details.txt are
still going to be provided by cpan.org?  If not, virtually all
CPAN tools will have to be updated.  cpanspec included.

P

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