From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:15:48 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] infra/pkg-perl: use Backpan to get perl modules In-Reply-To: <1403545341-24506-1-git-send-email-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> References: <1403545341-24506-1-git-send-email-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Message-ID: <53A90984.3040502@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 23/06/14 19:42, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > From: "Yann E. MORIN" > > Old versions of some perl modules are aggressively pruned by their > authors, up to the point that only the latest version is available > for some modules. > > OF course, that does not play very well for us, since we'd soon trip > on missing upstream versions. > > As suggested br Fran?ois, switch over to using Backpan, that provides > all the versions (including current ones) of all the modules for an > apparently unlimited time (there are modules dating back 2005, at > least.) > > Fixes: > http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/a95/a95064fbffc35d16e78dbb1e73c5bbfc262b8338/ > http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/81c/81c00bd737ec37b7b44c1c3a4e1ca29b6d1281d2/ > http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/5ce/5cebc74580c8a34bb63d82a7591269c9403e95af/ > [...] > > Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" > Cc: Fran?ois Perrad > --- > Config.in | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in > index bf1ca86..05f709d 100644 > --- a/Config.in > +++ b/Config.in > @@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ config BR2_LUAROCKS_MIRROR > > config BR2_CPAN_MIRROR > string "CPAN mirror (Perl packages)" > - default "http://search.cpan.org/CPAN" > + default "http://backpan.perl.org/" > help > CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) is a repository > of Perl packages. It has multiple software mirrors scattered > I think it would be good to add the backpan explanation to the help text here. Otherwise, people may just configure a local CPAN mirror without understanding the consequences. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F