In article <20111206123211.gf18...@bytemark.barnyard.co.uk>, 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. 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. Well, that's true, but not at all what I was saying. CPAN's index is also BackPAN's index. Take the CPAN index and use it with a BackPAN mirror and it's the same thing. You're confusing this by using something that is not CPAN's index, like an out of date copy that might be on BackPAN. Part of the confusion most people have stems from CPAN.pm, et alia insisting on fetching the index from the same place it will fetch the modules.
