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From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: Mauricio Collares <mauricio@collares.org>
Cc: 46441@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#46441: GNU ELPA feature request: host .lz archives (as well as uncompressed) for current versions
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 19:08:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eehlqf2y.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tuqhf80p.fsf@collares.org> (Mauricio Collares's message of "Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:36:22 -0300")

Mauricio Collares <mauricio@collares.org> writes:

> Thanks for the reply! The particular use case here is to have a
> reproducible environment via the Nix package manager. Omitting
> irrelevant details, Nix is a source-based package manager whose
> "recipes" for building packages typically start by doing the equivalent
> of "download this file with this sha256 from this URL" (actually, this
> is typically done by fetching a specific commit from a repository, but
> in this case I believe tarballs are the only option);

What are the obstacles to fetching from elpa.git here?
E.g. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/?h=externals/auctex

Thanks,

-- 
Basil





  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-12 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-11 19:46 bug#46441: GNU ELPA feature request: host .lz archives (as well as uncompressed) for current versions Mauricio Collares
2021-02-12 17:32 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-02-12 18:10   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-12 18:36     ` Mauricio Collares
2021-02-12 19:08       ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2021-02-12 19:31         ` Mauricio Collares
2021-02-12 22:26       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-04  1:00     ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-04 23:09       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-12 18:41   ` Mauricio Collares

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