Hi, while still wrestling with the perlbal port, I've found that there is no way to download this package from CPAN with 'make fetch' because this results in attempts to fetch .../by-module/... . After nagging quite a lot of people, Andreas J. Koenig from mind.de finally answered an email of mine to [email protected] and said that the symlink trees have been abandoned long ago, that they are about to be deprecated, and that I should use CPAN or CPANPLUS or similar modules to fetch from CPAN, using their index files.
At the same time, I noticed the following (small?) issues with the current scheme: * Fetches are done via FTP, thus most likely bypassing CPAN's load-balancing and redirection scheme. * The hard-coded list of CPAN sites in templates/nework.conf.template is imho geared towards users in the Americas, and Asia. At least, I was chased around the world, and most servers "in my neighbourhood" were bypassed. Maybe this can somehow be improved to automatically select local servers, too. In any case, it might be a good idea to not rely on the symlink trees to fetch the code from CPAN for the upcoming OpenBSD release, as their availability appears to be rather doubtful. Kind regards, --Toni++
