From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Bioconductor: Use SVN/git by default? Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 17:13:39 +0200 Message-ID: <87vb17u9uk.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35848) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDvSv-0004Vh-3a for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2016 11:13:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDvSp-0006vI-3i for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2016 11:13:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Fri, 17 Jun 2016 10:54:28 +0200") 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel Hi! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > The lack of an archive is also a problem for reproducibility. You > simply cannot download an archive for an obsolete package version. [...] > What do you think? I see no way around using the sources from the > central Bioconductor SVN repository as tarballs simply don=E2=80=99t give= us > what we need in terms of reproducibility. Would it help if we had access to a universal content-addressed archive that would include everything Bioconductor has ever published? That could be another solution (with a big =E2=80=9Cif=E2=80=9D, granted ;-= )). Ludo=E2=80=99.