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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
Subject: Re: Re: proj/en/perl/outdated-cpan-packages.xml automatic update
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 18:43:20 -0700
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:46:14AM +0200, Torsten Veller wrote:
> * "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>:
> > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 07:33:11AM +0200, Torsten Veller wrote:
> > > * "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>:
> > > > And something is broken with CPAN, just in time for us :-).
> > > > Manually browsing give me:
> > > > http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Email-MessageID-1.400/
> > > 
> > > This version was released yesterday.
> > > 
> > > > But using CPAN itself gives me:
> > > > Email::MessageID                  1.351  R/RJ/RJBS/Email-MessageID-1.351.tar.gz
> > > It's in here:
> > > Last-Updated: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:26:55 GMT
> > > Email::MessageID                  1.400 R/RJ/RJBS/Email-MessageID-1.400.tar.gz
> > If you look at the commits that the script made, some of the CPAN
> > mirrors had Email-MessageID-1.400 in the index, but others didn't.
> 
> <http://cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#Which_site_mirror>:
> <http://www.cs.uu.nl/stats/mirmon/cpan.html>:
> The mirrors are not all syncing from the master site and sync
> at different times probably only once a day while the master
> gets update more often.
> So a new module can be missing on some servers.
> 
> Then again some servers are not uptodate at all.
> 
> archive.cs.uu.nl:         Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:26:55 GMT
> arwen.cs.dal.ca:          Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:28:05 GMT
> cpan.biz.net.id:          Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:27:30 GMT
> cpan.catalyst.net.nz:     Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:27:05 GMT
> cpan.mirror.ac.za:        Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:27:30 GMT
> cpan.mirrors.easynet.fr:  Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:26:50 GMT
> cpan.mirror.choon.net:    Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:27:05 GMT
> cpan.mirror.clemson.edu:  Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:26:48 GMT
> cpan.net.pl:              Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:02:47 GMT
> cpan.triplemind.com:      Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:02:58 GMT
> cpan.velug.org.ve:        Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:27:05 GMT
> 
> For the scipt we should use a reliable mirror or the master site.
Which one is the actual master, or would you recommend as a highly
reliable site, just for running the script and not getting flapping in
result sets.

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-- Robin H. Johnson
Re: proj/en/perl/outdated-cpan-packages.xml automatic update
-- Robin H. Johnson
Re: proj/en/perl/outdated-cpan-packages.xml automatic update
-- Torsten Veller
Re: Re: proj/en/perl/outdated-cpan-packages.xml automatic update
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