I'm proposing here a change for CPAN modules' default HOMEPAGE to metacpan.org instead, as search.cpan.org is no more [1]:
- This would avoid useless redirections - It provides https for homepages It's the first time i touch to something in the infrastructure, i may have missed something. I've rebuilt and install various Perl ports with that change, it works as expected. Any comments or feedback? Charlène. [1] https://log.perl.org/2018/05/goodbye-search-dot-cpan-dot-org.html Index: cpan.port.mk =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/ports/infrastructure/mk/cpan.port.mk,v retrieving revision 1.20 diff -u -p -r1.20 cpan.port.mk --- cpan.port.mk 20 Mar 2016 19:56:44 -0000 1.20 +++ cpan.port.mk 29 Oct 2018 21:46:21 -0000 @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ MASTER_SITES ?= ${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN: MASTER_SITES ?= ${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN:=../by-authors/id/$ {CPAN_AUTHOR:C/^(.).*/\1/}/${CPAN_AUTHOR:C/^(..).*/\1/}/$ {CPAN_AUTHOR}/} .endif -HOMEPAGE ?= http://search.cpan.org/dist/${DISTNAME:C/-[^-]*$//}/ +HOMEPAGE ?= https://metacpan.org/release/${DISTNAME:C/-[^-]*$//} CATEGORIES += perl5 .if ! ${CONFIGURE_STYLE:L:Mperl}
