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bug#46849: ELPA packages are fetched from unstable url -> not reproducib
From: |
zimoun |
Subject: |
bug#46849: ELPA packages are fetched from unstable url -> not reproducible |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Mar 2021 23:33:31 +0100 |
Hi,
I did a mistake and the bug report had not been CC.
Cheers,
simon
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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Rosenberger <johannes@jorsn.eu>
Subject: Re: bug#46849: ELPA packages are fetched from unstable url -> not
reproducible
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2021 02:32:11 +0100
Hi,
Thanks for the notification.
On Mon, 01 Mar 2021 at 14:15, Johannes Rosenberger <johannes@jorsn.eu> wrote:
> These are only available for the newest version of a package.
> ELPA keeps compressed archives only of around 20 hand-selected versions.
> All package versions are kept in their git repo, which is a complete archive,
> but there you must somehow extract the commit hash of a version.
So it would break the “guix time-machine”, right?
There is 2 solutions:
1- trust the future Tarball Heritage [1]
2- switch to git-fetch all the ELPA packages.
> - https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=46441
About #2, I am confused by this quote:
If you can work from the elpa.git instead, then you'll avoid
those problems (but the content is slightly different, so it
might be less convenient).
1: <https://git.ngyro.com/disarchive>
All the best,
simon
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