Re: Open source archives hosting malicious software packages

2017-09-21 Thread David Cantrell
one looking at scrollback *carefully*. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist Planckton: n, the smallest possible living thing

Re: Open source archives hosting malicious software packages

2017-09-20 Thread David Cantrell
Ix::Class or a misremembered Class::DBI, and there's nothing stopping anyone from uploading a DBI::Class package that does all kinds of dodgy stuff. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla.

Re: Making www.cpan.org TLS-only

2017-09-04 Thread David Cantrell
erstand. The long-term fix is for me to upgrade the version of Debian that CPANdeps uses, but in the mean time can that be another file excluded from the re-directs please. -- David Cantrell | Pope | First Church of the Symmetrical Internet I apologize if I offended you personally,

"How to contribute" documentation

2016-06-08 Thread David Cantrell
lorg/cpanorg/pull/32 * I have contacted him for clarification, because we all know what happens when we assume -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist I know that you believe you understand what you think you wrote, but I'm not sure you realize that what you wrote is not what you meant.

New maintainer needed for cpXXXan

2016-04-29 Thread David Cantrell
current employer decides to stop giving me hosting for free. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice The voices told me to [THIS SIG CENSORED BY GCHQ FOR REASONS OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND DECENCY AND OH MY GOD IS THAT A LOBSTER]

RECENT-* seem to have got stuck

2016-04-18 Thread David Cantrell
See http://www.cpan.org/authors/ Looks like the only one that's getting updated is RECENT-1h.yaml. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness comparative and superlative explained: worse, worser, worsest, worsted, wasted

Re: Renaming the "QA Hackathon"?

2016-04-09 Thread David Cantrell
I think the word you're looking for is symposium. Although I think hackathon is just fine. -- David Cantrell This electrogram was despatched by wireless field telegraph. I would therefore ask that the recipient be so kind as to excuse any failures of courtesy or linguistic inelegance

Re: CPAN River - water quality metric

2016-01-04 Thread David Cantrell
ndency. That is, it samples the water quality once, ignoring the factory upstream that shits its pants a coupla times a year. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic If you can't imagine how I do something, it's because I have a better imagination than you

Re: Backpan mirror?

2015-09-15 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:24:47PM -0400, David Golden wrote: > Ah, right. It's private. > > I suggest you email the Perl NOC and ask for private rsync access. I think > supporting CPXXXAN makes a good case for it. Will do - thanks. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engine

Backpan mirror?

2015-09-15 Thread David Cantrell
? -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" Irregular English: you have anecdotes; they have data; I have proof

Re: Backpan mirror?

2015-09-15 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:04:50PM -0400, David Golden wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:03 PM, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> > wrote: > > rsync: failed to connect to backpan.cpantesters.org: Connection refused > > (111) > > > > Can someone recom

Re: Leo is skinning www.cpan.org

2010-09-27 Thread David Cantrell
? At a glance, it appears to be a log of all uploads and deletes from the beginning of time up to some point in recent history, at which point it stops. It would be Really Useful to have it be updated a few times a year. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing Irregular English: ladies

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-30 Thread David Cantrell
useful to some downstream reusers of the archive. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world When one has bathed in Christ there is no need to bathe a second time -- St. Jerome, on why washing is a vile pagan practice in a letter to Heliodorus, 373 or 374 AD

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-30 Thread David Cantrell
polite. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing You can't spell AWESOME without ME!

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-29 Thread David Cantrell
laptop at the time had something like 30GB, and that had to include the OS and all my mp3s. A CPAN-onna-stick was very useful at hackathons and on train journeys. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence I think the most difficult moment that anyone could face is seeing

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-27 Thread David Cantrell
. Because the most important mirror sites mirror CPAN as just a very small part of what they do. They won't want to have to use weird tools for just that tiny corner of their disk. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic I caught myself pulling grey hairs out of my beard

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-25 Thread David Cantrell
to know if a specific release has been marked as being the latest working release for a particular perl/os. You just described cpXXXan: http://cpxxxan.barnyard.co.uk/ -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig You know you're getting old when you fancy the teenager's parent