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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: proj/en/perl/outdated-cpan-packages.xml automatic update
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:59:15
Message-Id: 20081005014320.GA15949@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: proj/en/perl/outdated-cpan-packages.xml automatic update by Torsten Veller
1 On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:46:14AM +0200, Torsten Veller wrote:
2 > * "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>:
3 > > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 07:33:11AM +0200, Torsten Veller wrote:
4 > > > * "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>:
5 > > > > And something is broken with CPAN, just in time for us :-).
6 > > > > Manually browsing give me:
7 > > > > http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Email-MessageID-1.400/
8 > > >
9 > > > This version was released yesterday.
10 > > >
11 > > > > But using CPAN itself gives me:
12 > > > > Email::MessageID 1.351 R/RJ/RJBS/Email-MessageID-1.351.tar.gz
13 > > > It's in here:
14 > > > Last-Updated: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:26:55 GMT
15 > > > Email::MessageID 1.400 R/RJ/RJBS/Email-MessageID-1.400.tar.gz
16 > > If you look at the commits that the script made, some of the CPAN
17 > > mirrors had Email-MessageID-1.400 in the index, but others didn't.
18 >
19 > <http://cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#Which_site_mirror>:
20 > <http://www.cs.uu.nl/stats/mirmon/cpan.html>:
21 > The mirrors are not all syncing from the master site and sync
22 > at different times probably only once a day while the master
23 > gets update more often.
24 > So a new module can be missing on some servers.
25 >
26 > Then again some servers are not uptodate at all.
27 >
28 > archive.cs.uu.nl: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:26:55 GMT
29 > arwen.cs.dal.ca: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:28:05 GMT
30 > cpan.biz.net.id: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:27:30 GMT
31 > cpan.catalyst.net.nz: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:27:05 GMT
32 > cpan.mirror.ac.za: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:27:30 GMT
33 > cpan.mirrors.easynet.fr: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:26:50 GMT
34 > cpan.mirror.choon.net: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:27:05 GMT
35 > cpan.mirror.clemson.edu: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:26:48 GMT
36 > cpan.net.pl: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:02:47 GMT
37 > cpan.triplemind.com: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:02:58 GMT
38 > cpan.velug.org.ve: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:27:05 GMT
39 >
40 > For the scipt we should use a reliable mirror or the master site.
41 Which one is the actual master, or would you recommend as a highly
42 reliable site, just for running the script and not getting flapping in
43 result sets.
44
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