Howdy, My apologies if this topic has been covered elsewhere; I've been unable to concoct a search which would efficiently find it.
I've authored a distribution which contains a single executable and no supporting modules. After injecting the tarball into my local darkpan via orepan2-inject, cpanm is unable to find it. I believe the problem is that as there are no packages, the "provides" field in META.yml is empty, and as 02packages.detail.txt lists only packages, it won't show up there. I see two options: 1. Create an empty package which gets indexed; or 2. Add an entry to the "provides" field mapping the distribution's "package" name (App::pltvectors) to the script file. Unfortunately, if a tool uses the "provides" field to verify that the listed package is in the script file it will fail, so this approach may lead to breakage. Is there a third option which doesn't require creating the empty file? Thanks, Diab P.S. I'm interested not just for my package, but also one of my old-time favorites on CPAN, makepatch, which isn't indexed on metacpan because of this (see https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-web/issues/601) and thus isn't installable by CPAN clients, or indeed discoverable by metacpan, which is a shame. P.P.S. FWIW, here's the META.yml (without dependency entries): --- abstract: 'plot vectors as arrows or rectangles' author: - 'Diab Jerius <djer...@cfa.harvard.edu>' build_requires: ExtUtils::MakeMaker: '0' configure_requires: ExtUtils::MakeMaker: '0' dynamic_config: 0 generated_by: 'Dist::Zilla version 6.010, CPAN::Meta::Converter version 2.150010' license: gpl meta-spec: url: http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-v1.4.html version: '1.4' name: App-pltvectors no_index: directory: - eg - examples - inc - share - t - xt provides: {} resources: {} version: '2.1' x_serialization_backend: 'YAML::Tiny version 1.70'
