[Slackbuilds-users] Perl update checker script

[B. Watson]

I wrote this a while back, might as well share it...

https://slackware.uk/~urchlay/repos/ck4up-config/plain/perlupd

It takes a maintainer name (or -a for all maintainers) and checks CPAN
for updated versions of Perl modules. For each new version, it gives
the version number and the download URL, which makes updating the
SlackBuild easy.

It's not perfect: the SBo build names don't always map to the CPAN
package names in an obvious way, and a few things in our perl/
category aren't on CPAN at all. Still, it should be useful.

About the request for an updated perl-Exporter-Tiny, it did spot this:

perl-Exporter-Tiny: outdated 1.000000, avail 1.006003  https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/T/TO/TOBYINK/Exporter-Tiny-1.006003.tar.gz