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From: Michael Cummings <mcummings@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Perl-Modules download problems
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 08:03:18
Message-Id: 20030602040316.1987170b.mcummings@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Perl-Modules download problems by Martin Schipany
1 Martin,
2
3 What advertisements??
4
5 cpan.valueclick, for the record, is an authorized mirror site of cpan.org. I tend to point users to the mirrors and not the primary site in ebuilds to lessen the load on cpan.org.
6 If you are experiencing a problem with those ebuilds as is, please submit a bug report at bugs.gentoo.org. Thanks!
7
8 On 02 Jun 2003 09:20:10 +0200
9 Martin Schipany <elcondor+gentoo@×××××.net> wrote:
10
11 >
12 > Who had the ******* idea to download perl-modules from
13 > cpan.valueclick.com? today the download of the following modules failed:
14 >
15 > Parse-RecDescent
16 > libnet
17 > MIME-Base64
18 > HTML-Parser
19 > libwww-perl
20 >
21 > if you replace cpan.valueclick.com by cpan.org in the ebuild everything
22 > works, and you do not download any advertisments ...
23 >
24 > I thought the ebuild should point to the as original as possible source
25 > if the download from a mirror fails?
26 >
27 > * ElCondor wondering pasa *
28 >
29 >
30 >
31 > --
32 > gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Perl-Modules download problems Max Kalika <max+lists.gentoo-dev@×××××××××.edu>