[Slackbuilds-users] perl-glib source URL

Glenn Becker glenn.becker at gmail.com
Wed Feb 24 22:12:10 UTC 2016


Good point. Thanks!

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On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Chris Novakovic <chris at chrisn.me.uk> wrote:

> On 22/02/2016 15:11, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wrote:
> >> source URL in perl-glib.info should be
> >>
> >> https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/X/XA/XAOC/Glib-1.307.tar.gz
> >
> > done
>
> In general, I'd recommend using BackPAN for links to Perl module
> distribution tarballs on SBo. Module authors are able (in fact, are
> encouraged) to delete old versions of their module distributions from
> PAUSE, and we're typically still referring to those files long after
> they've been deleted from the CPAN mirrors. BackPAN maintains a
> permanent archive of everything that has been uploaded to PAUSE.
>
> The BackPAN link for Glib-1.307 is
>
> http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/X/XA/XAOC/Glib-1.307.tar.gz
>
> and will work indefinitely. (cpan.metacpan.org also seems to be storing
> some rather old files, but I can't find a guarantee that they won't be
> deleted at some point.)
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
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