David,
I apologize for this inconvenience, I did not realize this happened, I will be careful about what I delete from now on. However, I think you might want to email the maintainer of this port and let him/her know that this is happening so that they can update it.
Thanks,
Stevan
On Apr 1, 2005, at 6:17 AM, David Baird wrote:
Hi,
just a heads-up about cleaning up CPAN. I know old versions are always
available from BACKPAN (whatever that is, havent actually checked it out),
but I came across a situation on FreeBSD. For those who dont know, FreeBSD
has an excellent package management system called the ports tree, and it
includes a large proportion of CPAN. However, the ports tend to lag a version
or two behind CPAN, depending on the energy of the particular port
maintainer. So for instance Tree::Simple is at 0.14 on CPAN, and previous
versions have been deleted. In the ports tree, the p5-Tree-Simple package is
still looking for version 0.12, which no longer exists, so it fails.
In my opinion, this is a deficiency of the ports system in not automatically
picking the most up to date version from CPAN, but thats the way it is.
Take care,
d.
