From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: add sparta-dsmc Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:03:21 -0400 Message-ID: <20160425190321.GB17335@jasmine> References: <20160404205551.GB16062@serenity.ph.utexas.edu> <20160405082659.GB4775@jasmine> <20160405170456.GB4273@serenity.public.utexas.edu> <20160405172135.GA14293@debian-netbook> <20160423064704.GA11097@serenity> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58384) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1auln6-0000F7-8z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:03:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1auln2-0002dc-8l for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:03:28 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:42135) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1auln2-0002dV-5j for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:03:24 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160423064704.GA11097@serenity> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Lukas Gradl Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 01:47:18AM -0500, Lukas Gradl wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 08:21:35PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 12:04:56PM -0500, Lukas Gradl wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 04:26:59AM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 03:55:51PM -0500, Lukas Gradl wrote: > > > > > Hello Guix! > > > > > > > > > > Attached is a patch to add the SPARTA Direct Simulation Monte Carlo > > > > > Software. > > > > > > > > > > There maybe is a problem with the source URL: The URL always points to > > > > > the latest version of the source tar ball which is constantly updated > > > > > and immediately released by upstream. This means that the hash of the > > > > > source tar ball available at this URL changes several times a month. Is > > > > > this acceptable or does anyone have an idea how this should be handled? > > > > > > > > I assume you've looked for a more stable URL. Are there other distros > > > > that have solved this problem? Can you contact the SPARTA developers and > > > > ask if there is a solution? > > > > > > AFAIK this software is not packaged in any other distro. I am already > > > in contact with the author of SPARTA, he provided the URL that I used in > > > the patch. I explained the problem to him and I am waiting for his > > > response. > > > > > > Thank you! > > > > Not just for this package but potentially for others, could we stick a > > copy on archive.org with a date-stamp or something? > > > Sorry for the long delay! > > My message to upstream is still unanswered, so I went ahead and uploaded > the tar ball to archive.org. Attached is an updated patch. Do we at least know why the tarball keeps changing? For example, is it a new release? Have you inspected the differences from one to the next? If the upstream author could say, "use this tarball with hash xxx[...]", we could confidently distribute software from the author to our users. Thanks for you work on this so far!