On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 09:43:53AM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > > 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. >
Just set CPAN_AUTHOR to the authors id. Look at cpan.port.mk or grep through other Perl ports also using this variable. Regards, Simon P.S.: the license of p5-Net-Netmask doesn't seems to be Artistic.
