Backpan mirroring incomplete

[kentfredric]

I was doing a lot of scripts to fetch stuff from backpan, rotating with metacpan's server, and I found a few inconsistencies. Metacpan 404's for several hundred .meta files at least.

( 
  X="authors/id/K/KR/KRAIH/Mojolicious-1.3.meta" ;
  diff -Naur <(  curl cpan.metacpan.org/$X ) <(  curl backpan.cpantesters.org/$X ) 
)

Gives a substantial difference, one of course being a 404.

[ranguard]

It's not just .meta files, Bio-Homology-InterologWalk-0.5.tar.gz is missing as well...

Compare:

http://backpan.cpantesters.org/authors/id/G/GG/GGALLONE/

and

http://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/G/GG/GGALLONE/

[kentfredric]

This case is amusing:

( X="authors/id/D/DW/DWHEELER/PGXN-API-Searcher-v0.10.1.meta" ; diff -Naur <(  curl cpan.metacpan.org/$X  ) <(  curl backpan.cpantesters.org/$X ) )

metacpan gives JSON, backpan gives YAML :)