Bug 755 – CPAN/arch-less distribution would be useful

Bug 755 - CPAN/arch-less distribution would be useful

Summary:

CPAN/arch-less distribution would be useful

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Logitech Media Server
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Misc
Version:	unspecified
Platform:	PC All

Importance:	P2 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Blackketter Dean

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Reported:	2004-12-28 11:27 UTC by Brooks Davis
Modified:	2008-09-15 14:37 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Brooks Davis 2004-12-28 11:27:25 UTC

The CPAN/arch directory is over 4.5 MB and by necessicity, most of it is 
irrelevent to any given platform.  Additionaly, many arches are not being kept 
up to date so the files are of limited use on those platforms.  (For instance, 
on a number of platforms, the arch dirs only contains files for perl 5.6, but 
CVS only support 5.8+).  When you add the fact that users will have to build 
their own modules on many odd ball platforms (FreeBSD/ia64, most NetBSD 
platforms, etc), a distribution that didn't contain this directory would be 
useful.

Comment 1 Dan Sully 2005-01-18 00:13:14 UTC

Brooks - builds after January 17th 2005 should have a .no-cpan-arch.tar.gz file.

Comment 2 Chris Owens 2006-06-16 14:40:48 UTC

There are 536 bugs in the database with targets of '---' that were fixed prior to new year 2006.  I am setting them to targets of 6.2.1 to keep them from showing up in my queries.