Le mer. 1 mai 2019 à 10:41, Neil Bowers <neil.bow...@cogendo.com> a écrit :
>
> Hi Thierry,
>
> >> Do you know how people are likely to install your distributions? Will they 
> >> do it using a CPAN client, or using a linux package? Even if you believe 
> >> most people will install from linux packages, we still want the most 
> >> likely behaviour to work on CPAN as well.
> >
> > They usually got installed as RPM packages (resp perl-URPM & urpmi)
>
> Good to know, thanks.
>
>
> >> Once our proposed change is released, then PAUSE would index whichever of 
> >> URPM and urpm was most recently released. If you’d prefer that URPM is the 
> >> module that’s always indexed, you could just ensure that the “urpm” module 
> >> is never indexed. The easiest way for you to achieve this would be for you 
> >> to add the following to the META_MERGE clause in Makefile.PL for that 
> >> distribution: [no_index example]
> >
> > I guess another solution would be to:
> > 1) renale urpm as urpmi
> > 2) make it provides a dummy urpmi.pm module so that CPAN is haoppy
> > (like I did in rpmtools-7.10)
> >
> > WDYT?
>
> That’s even better: if you rename urpm.pm (in the urpmi distribution) to be 
> urpmi, then the main module in the distribution will match the distribution 
> name, something that PAUSE requires for new distributions.

Sorry I miswrite:
I wouldn't rename urpm.pm to urpmi.pm (that would break a lot of
existing software),
I only plan to provide a urpmi.pm stub module)

> And then there wouldn’t be a permissions case clash, and we won’t have to get 
> into no_index or other hairy workarounds!

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