perl5.8 5.8.8_1 fetch failure (404 not found)

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Brian Hunter ​reported on macports-users that perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2 cannot be fetched from ​http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/ and I can confirm this:

$ sudo port -f fetch perl5.8
--->  Fetching perl5.8
--->  Attempting to fetch perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2 from http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/
--->  Attempting to fetch perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2 from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/perl5.8
--->  Attempting to fetch perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2 from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/
--->  Attempting to fetch perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2 from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/perl5.8
Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
$

The archive (and many other archives) seems to be missing from the CPAN server. I'll see if I can figure out whom I need to contact about that.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I sent an email to cpan at perl dot org about the problem.

[afb@…]

​http://www.cpan.org/src/perl-5.8.8.tar.gz works, maybe switch to gzip in the meantime ? (perl5.10 is using gzip already, since there is no bzip2 variant for the newer release)

[afb@…]

Fixed, rhwood in r32781.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I can confirm that the contents of the gz archive and the previous bz2 archive are identical. Meanwhile, I'm still trying to discover from the CPAN folks why the bz2 archives disappeared.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The perl folks explain that the 5.8.8 bz2 file was inadvertently removed from the server, and has now been restored, so I reverted r32781 in r33050.

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