On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Dave Messina wrote: > > I'm one of the core developers for the BioPerl project. > > We've had a persistent problem with users grabbing outdated versions of > our distributions from CPAN. For example, the distribution > bioperl-1.4.tar.gz is deprecated and is on backpan, as seen here: > > http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/B/BI/BIRNEY/ > > and yet in a search for bioperl through the cpan command-line interface, > bioperl-1.4.tar.gz turns up almost at the top of the list: > > cpan[2]> i /bioperl/ > Bundle Bundle::BioPerl (CRAFFI/Bundle-BioPerl-2.1.8.tar.gz) > Distribution BIRNEY/bioperl-1.4.tar.gz > Distribution BIRNEY/bioperl-db-0.1.tar.gz > [..snip..] > 16 items found > > Is there a way to prevent our old distributions from appearing in CPAN > search results?
Yes, you have to delete them from CPAN (using the PAUSE interface). The distribution will still stay on BackPAN but no longer be included in CPAN search results. Cheers, -Jan
