On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:32 AM, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 06:21:13PM -0600, brian d foy wrote: >> In article <20111205154758.gh17...@bytemark.barnyard.co.uk>, David >> Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> wrote: >> > There's at least one other significant difference: CPAN has an >> > up-to-date index. Â BackPAN doesn't. >> Well, CPAN's index is also BackPAN's index. That is, neither of them >> include all of the files in the repository. > > Various backpan mirrors seem to have different 02packages files. In > general you can't rely on them to be the same as CPAN's.
More broadly, different mirrors (BackPAN and otherwise) can have different 02packages files and you can't rely on them to be the same as PAUSE's, which is the one true index, of which all others are but shadows. (hat tip, Roger Zelazny, RIP) -- David
