Re: infrastructure/mk/cpan.port.mk: search.cpan.org -> metacpan.org

On 2018/10/30 20:40, Charlene Wendling wrote:
>
> I'm proposing here a change for CPAN modules' default HOMEPAGE to
> metacpan.org instead, as search.cpan.org is no more [1]:
>
> - This would avoid useless redirections
> - It provides https for homepages
>
> It's the first time i touch to something in the infrastructure, i may
> have missed something. I've rebuilt and install various Perl ports with
> that change, it works as expected.
>
> Any comments or feedback?
>
> Charlène.
>
> [1] https://log.perl.org/2018/05/goodbye-search-dot-cpan-dot-org.html
>
>
> Index: cpan.port.mk
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/ports/infrastructure/mk/cpan.port.mk,v
> retrieving revision 1.20
> diff -u -p -r1.20 cpan.port.mk
> --- cpan.port.mk 20 Mar 2016 19:56:44 -0000 1.20
> +++ cpan.port.mk 29 Oct 2018 21:46:21 -0000
> @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ MASTER_SITES ?= ${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN:
> MASTER_SITES ?= ${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN:=../by-authors/id/$
> {CPAN_AUTHOR:C/^(.).*/\1/}/${CPAN_AUTHOR:C/^(..).*/\1/}/$
> {CPAN_AUTHOR}/} .endif
> -HOMEPAGE ?= http://search.cpan.org/dist/${DISTNAME:C/-[^-]*$//}/
> +HOMEPAGE ?= https://metacpan.org/release/${DISTNAME:C/-[^-]*$//}
>
> CATEGORIES += perl5
> .if ! ${CONFIGURE_STYLE:L:Mperl}
>

REVISION will need to be bumped on every port that has its HOMEPAGE changed
as a result.

This is possible, but easier for someone with commit and already familiar
with this type of change to do it when they have time.