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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-edger.
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-edger. |
Date: |
Mon, 23 May 2016 23:50:47 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Roel Janssen <address@hidden> skribis:
> Efraim Flashner writes:
>
>> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 09:33:28AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>>>
>>> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
>>> All previous releases might still be available via SVN, though, so maybe
>>> we can find a way to generalise this and add an SVN origin as a
>>> fallback. Maybe we should not use the tarballs at all and convert all
>>> of the Bioconductor packages to use SVN instead?
>>>
>>
>> It would be easier than making our own archive of releases or
>> systematically uploading them all to archive.org.
>
> I've encountered missing tarballs a couple of times now. I think it would
> make Guix more "complete" to add an option to consistently store source
> tarballs, so they can be backed up somewhere.
>
> We could integrate this with the substitutions infrastructure, or create a
> separate component that works kind of like this:
>
> If could add an option to export source tarballs from the store to a
> custom directory that maintains the structure:
> <dir>/<sha256-hash>-<name>-<version>.<extension>, then we could easily set
> up a web server with <dir> as webroot.
Did you see:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-05/msg00450.html
?
This should address 404s for people who don’t use substitutes (people
using substitutes don’t have these problems since sources are also
substitutable.)
> This can be completely automated, so I don't think it has to be a lot of
> work:
> 1. guix package --export-source-tarballs=/var/www/public_html/
We could do this, but I figured we might as well let others do it. :-)
Currently we have tarballs.nixos.org, and I think there’ll be another
one pretty soon. Hopefully that’ll cover our needs.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
- [PATCH] gnu: Add r-edger., Roel Janssen, 2016/05/03
- Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-edger., Leo Famulari, 2016/05/22
- Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-edger., Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/05/23
- Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-edger., Efraim Flashner, 2016/05/23
- Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-edger., Roel Janssen, 2016/05/23
- Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-edger.,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-edger., Roel Janssen, 2016/05/23
- Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-edger., Ludovic Courtès, 2016/05/24
- Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-edger., Roel Janssen, 2016/05/24
- Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-edger., Ludovic Courtès, 2016/05/26