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From:
David Cantrell
Date:
December 6, 2011 04:32
Subject:
Re: Need suggestions for terminology
Message ID:
20111206123211.GF18267@bytemark.barnyard.co.uk
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 06:21:13PM -0600, brian d foy wrote:
> In article <20111205154758.GH17527@bytemark.barnyard.co.uk>, David
> Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> wrote:
> > There's at least one other significant difference: CPAN has an
> > up-to-date index.  BackPAN doesn't.
> Well, CPAN's index is also BackPAN's index. That is, neither of them
> include all of the files in the repository.

Various backpan mirrors seem to have different 02packages files. In
general you can't rely on them to be the same as CPAN's.

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