Re: Preservation of Guix Report 2021-12-06

[zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>]

Hi Timothy,


On Mon, 6 Dec 2021 at 21:02, Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com> wrote:

>     <https://ngyro.com/pog-reports/2021-12-06/>

Thanks!  Really cool!


As mentioned in [1], upstream of one disappeared:

    https://code.divoplade.fr/mkdir-p.git

and the package had been removed by
0d2400ceca8d0a0358abaf4cd699e54ddad0e885 two months ago.  Hopefully,
we still have it in Berlin.

    guix time-machine --commit=3275c9e1f5 -- build -S guile-mkdir-p

However, it returns

/gnu/store/dz88dc1k8q7161f3j1m668hi8zna4qcx-guile-mkdir-p-1.0.1.tar.xz

So, it needs some work to push it to SWH and get the same checksum
01k20rjcv6p0spmw8ls776aar6bfw0jxw46d2n12w0cb2p79xjv8, IIUC.

1: <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2021-12/msg00032.html>


We have to investigate to these 3 ones:

    R "https://github.com/dalanicolai/djvu3";
    R "https://github.com/halostatue/minitar";
    R "https://github.com/stardiviner/org-contacts.el";

because the Web front-end of SWH says 'successed' when archiving and
for instance,

https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https://github.com/dalanicolai/djvu3

but PoG asks for the commit 37b675be1d4d436cdd0c3b5d3f13e88b59a7bf18
which is not in, if I read correctly.  Well, the only reference of
djvu3 in the Guix repo is commit
b61ee34c9d7b679cb772e6e8ff0c0876ccf087b1 which indeed refers to commit
37b675b.  However, if upstream is cloned:

    git clone https://github.com/dalanicolai/djvu3
    git -C djvu3 log --oneline | grep 37b

returns nothing.  Which probably means an upstream in-place rewrite.  Arf!

Berlin also has it.  However, again it requires some work to push to
SWH with the expected commit.


I have not investigated the two others.  Similar cases I guess.


Last, maybe I miss something but I do not see 'python-scikit-learn' or
'sway' when this bug#51726 is still pending.  Somehow, I have the same
question I tried to ask there [3].


2: <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/51726>
3: <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2021-12/msg00064.html>


Cheers,
simon