[gentoo-dev] Perl-Modules download problems

[gentoo-dev] Perl-Modules download problems

[Martin Schipany]

Who had the ******* idea to download perl-modules from
cpan.valueclick.com? today the download of the following modules failed:

Parse-RecDescent
libnet
MIME-Base64
HTML-Parser
libwww-perl

if you replace cpan.valueclick.com by cpan.org in the ebuild everything
works, and you do not download any advertisments ...

I thought the ebuild should point to the as original as possible source
if the download from a mirror fails?

* ElCondor wondering pasa *



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Re: [gentoo-dev] Perl-Modules download problems

[Michael Cummings]

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Martin,

	What advertisements?? 

	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.
	If you are experiencing a problem with those ebuilds as is, please submit a bug report at bugs.gentoo.org. Thanks!

On 02 Jun 2003 09:20:10 +0200
Martin Schipany <elcondor+gentoo@warum.net> wrote:

> 
> Who had the ******* idea to download perl-modules from
> cpan.valueclick.com? today the download of the following modules failed:
> 
> Parse-RecDescent
> libnet
> MIME-Base64
> HTML-Parser
> libwww-perl
> 
> if you replace cpan.valueclick.com by cpan.org in the ebuild everything
> works, and you do not download any advertisments ...
> 
> I thought the ebuild should point to the as original as possible source
> if the download from a mirror fails?
> 
> * ElCondor wondering pasa *
> 
> 
> 
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> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Perl-Modules download problems

[Max Kalika]

Quoting Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>:

> 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.

I have been meaning to ask this for a while.  Would it not make sense to
choose a few mirrors from <http://cpan.org/SITES.html> for
thirdpartymirrors and use implement mirror://cpan for all the perl modules?
Heck, I'm willing to help in the grunt work of converting all the SRC_URI.
:-)

---max kalika
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