bug#40074: trilinos-serial-xyce source disappeared

bug#40074: trilinos-serial-xyce source disappeared

[Marius Bakke]

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The source URI for 'trilios-serial-xyce' serves a 404 page.  Following
download links from the home page only leads to the git repository.

This package should probably be changed to download a tagged git
revision instad of attempting to fetch a defunct tarball.

ci.guix.gnu.org has a copy of the previous source tarball so it's not
very urgent (anyone coming here can add "--fallback" to their guix
invokation to get it).

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bug#40074: trilinos-serial-xyce source disappeared

[zimoun]

Dear,

On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 at 13:48, Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> wrote:
> The source URI for 'trilios-serial-xyce' serves a 404 page.  Following
> download links from the home page only leads to the git repository.
>
> This package should probably be changed to download a tagged git
> revision instad of attempting to fetch a defunct tarball.
>
> ci.guix.gnu.org has a copy of the previous source tarball so it's not
> very urgent (anyone coming here can add "--fallback" to their guix
> invokation to get it).

The commit 74cb33c22818b25d1b9c6d576352fc8249832d34 [1] transitioned
from ’url-fetch’ to ’git-fetch’ for missing upstream (even disappeared
one).   I am proposing similar strategy:

First patch, replace ’url-fetch’ by ’git-fetch’ with creating a Git repo
from the build farm tarball and falling back to SWH.  This does not
change the integrity checksum.  And it avoids the “pressure“ on the
build farm.

Second patch, update the upstream source to the new good ’git-fetch’.
And this change the integrity checksum.  Maybe upstream released a new
version.


WDYT?

1: <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/43426>


All the best,
simon

bug#40074: trilinos-serial-xyce source disappeared

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 21:38, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 at 13:48, Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> wrote:

> First patch, replace ’url-fetch’ by ’git-fetch’ with creating a Git repo
> from the build farm tarball and falling back to SWH.  This does not
> change the integrity checksum.  And it avoids the “pressure“ on the
> build farm.
>
> Second patch, update the upstream source to the new good ’git-fetch’.
> And this change the integrity checksum.  Maybe upstream released a new
> version.

Commit b729be989f137749430779499b8c0dd1d54f2a18 did the replacement by
’git-fetch’ using the upstream repo.

It is hard to compare the both sources but it does not really matter
since the new one is the official upstream one.

Well, what remains is the guarantee that ’guix time-machine’ will still
work even if the Guix project looses the tarball.

This case should be covered by Disarchive and SWH.  Well, is it worth to
keep open this issue when the question about the time-machine coverage
is bigger than just this example.

Closing?

Cheers,
simon

bug#40074: trilinos-serial-xyce source disappeared

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 at 17:37, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:

> This case should be covered by Disarchive and SWH.  Well, is it worth to
> keep open this issue when the question about the time-machine coverage
> is bigger than just this example.

After 2 weeks without an answer, I am closing since this specific case
is already covered by the ongoing work around Disarchive and SWH.

Feel free to reopen if I miss something.

Cheers,
simon