From: "Björn Höfling" <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Internet Archive APIs useful as fallback?
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 22:28:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181219222846.5af6a8dd@alma-ubu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d0pxwon3.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 15:57:04 +0100
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> We added support to retrieve Git checkouts (and some tarballs) from
> Software Heritage recently:
>
> https://issues.guix.info/issue/33432
>
> The Internet Archive is not in the business of archiving software, but
> it’d be interesting to see if it archives tarballs that people put on
> “random” web sites, in which case it could also be useful.
We sometimes use it to replace expired packages or home-page URIs: In
some cases, the home-page or even the tar-file is in the archive. But
that is a manual step of cause. A famous example of recent time is the
package bzip2, where the domain expired and was taken over.
Björn
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-19 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-19 5:26 Internet Archive APIs useful as fallback? swedebugia
2018-12-19 14:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-12-19 17:18 ` swedebugia
2018-12-20 7:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-12-20 12:55 ` swedebugia
2018-12-19 21:28 ` Björn Höfling [this message]
2018-12-20 3:00 ` bill-auger
2018-12-20 4:42 ` swedebugia
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