[gentoo-dev] Re: proj/en/perl/outdated-cpan-packages.xml automatic update

[Torsten Veller]

* "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.

Thanks.