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Contovounesios" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46441: GNU ELPA feature request: host .lz archives (as well as uncompressed) for current versions Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 17:32:23 +0000 Message-ID: <87ft21qjiw.fsf@tcd.ie> References: <87r1lml74t.fsf@collares.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4267"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 46441@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier To: Mauricio Collares Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 12 18:33:15 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lAcJd-0000wo-VY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2021 18:33:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53372 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lAcJc-0006iH-Vd for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2021 12:33:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47542) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lAcJS-0006gJ-C0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2021 12:33:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:49579) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lAcJS-0005I9-4E for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2021 12:33:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lAcJR-0006mc-VH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2021 12:33:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Basil L. 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For example, auctex is currently at > version 13.0.4; today I can download it from > https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/auctex-13.0.4.tar, but this link will stop > working as soon as a new version of auctex is released and the old > version gets compressed. This makes it slightly annoying to pin a > particular version of an ELPA package by URL. > > I would like to ask the GNU ELPA maintainers to host both > https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/PACKAGE-CURRENTVERSION.lz (permanent) as > well as https://elpa.gnu.org/packagesa/PACKAGE-CURRENTVERSION > (temporary). This would make it easier for people to build reproducible > environments by pinning a package version. I don't particularly care > about exposing it as a link on the website; for my purposes, it's enough > that the file exists. This is perhaps a little bit wasteful, but > compressed versions shouldn't be too big. Wouldn't it be wasteless if the "current version" URL was symbolic and resolved to the concrete versioned release? Thanks, -- Basil