On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 02:23:12PM +0100, Armin K. wrote: > Hi all, > > I've noticed a lot of Perl Modules tickets last night and wondered why > they weren't picked up by the currency scripts. After some > investigation, the format used for specifying the URL and md5sum isn't > the standard one used by other packages and none of the perl modules end > up in the wget-list. > > It can easily be fixed, although. The attached patch modifies the > Archive-Zip section to use a layout like other packages do. An example > on what's visibly different can be seen in the screenshot. It could be > changed to use the more standard (Download (HTTP), MD5Sum, etc) > approach, but I don't think it's necessary here. > > Now, if nobody minds, I can fix all the packages and submit a patch. I > would also like to move download url's and md5sums into entities at the > beginning of the page. > > Pro is we get version checks from currency scripts and all the modules > in the wget-list. I can't yet see any cons. So if anybody has any > suggestion or reason why we shouldn't do this - please speak up. >
The problem with perl is that if the maintainer of a module changes, the link points to the old versions and the new version is not found. When I checked versions in August, two modules had different maintainers. So a few updates will still slip through the net. But if this change means most of them are automatatically noticed, it will definitely help. For the new tickets, no rush - I'm preparing for a new build, got a few more things to sort out before I start the build (and I've also got a lot more perl changes than this, some of which look as if they might pull in new dependencies, ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
