Re: Cook source disappeared

[John Darrington]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 04:12:07PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:
     On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 03:58:30AM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
     > Yes, like Leo says, Peter Miller is deceased.
     > 
     > It looks as if his entire home page is now gone.  As I recall, it used 
to be hosted
     > by the Australian Unix User Group.  I suggest they just re-arranged 
their web site,
     > and it somehow got inadvertently dropped.
     > 
     > It might well be worth a mail to the webmaster asking if they know 
anything about it.
     > 
     > 
     >      > (it is possible that the source has disappeared a while ago, but 
that
     >      > this was only noticed once the cache broke down with 
hydra.gnu.org).
     > 
     > I wonder if it would be worth having some kind of daemon which crawls 
and flags
     > sources which are either missing, or have bad checksums?
     > 
     
     https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/issues.html
     
But if I understand correctly, that is not going to do anything if hydra's 
internal
cache is good.  From what Andraes says, we only noticed this because we 
happened to
loose the cache.

J'


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