cpanpm issues

Skip distributions in a Raku subdir in DISABLED distroprefs

To allow for future use of a Raku subdir, as in https://github.com/andk/pause/issues/346

Wishlist: First try distro packages for dependencies

I have for a long time had a policy to first see if any dependencies of packages I install can be satisfied by the Linux distro I'm using. In practice,...

kjetilk

add support for cperl and fixed YAML::XS

Using these fixes for the last 2 years in cperl. Tested for all major perl versions. Note: The YAML::XS situation is still unclear, as upstream maintainers were doing nothing for...

rurban

Fix for RT68781 - reports does not work with YAML

The 'YAML' module has (sometimes?) problems decoding the reports from cpantesters - the 'reports' function in CPAN only works if you have YAML::XS or YAML::Syck installed. There is another issue,...

mbeijen

Fix minor typo: fatest

Minor typo fatest -> fastest

phuzion

CPAN::Config use manual install as default for root

'local::lib' seems to be a good default choice for unprivileged users, but when cpan is run by root we should consider using 'manual' as the default option.

atoomic

use metacpan API to retrieve a module's changes

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See https://log.perl.org/2018/05/goodbye-search-dot-cpan-dot-org.html Rather than scraping for a link to the raw changes file, we can just get it from metacpan's API, and also use it to more reliably get the...

Grinnz