From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: david.larsson@selfhosted.xyz Subject: Re: guile-bash updated source url Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 18:08:55 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <87imurbq18.fsf@gnu.org> <87ef5cse3h.fsf@netris.org> <87ftpp3746.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:52101) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hPUZq-0004Vf-RJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 May 2019 12:10:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hPUZF-0003y9-0t for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 May 2019 12:09:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87ftpp3746.fsf@netris.org> 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: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Wed, 8 May 2019, Mark H Weaver wrote: > FYI, David might not have seen my reply below, because my mail server is > unable to perform DNS lookups for his domain, and thus is unable to look > up the MX record to deliver mail to him. I'm not yet sure what's going > wrong, maybe something in my firewall configuration. > > Mark Hi, Im not sure why, I do make some scheduled blocklist-updates and resets around midnight which could have led to a temporary block. (Though I think most MTA's just resends a few times before giving up so I haven't concerned myself with this so far). > >>> I made a commit since I was unable figure out how to create a >>> git-mirror from the Software Heritage website but was able to retrieve >>> the correct commit as a tarball. Then I guix init'ed the folder, and >>> made a commit in order to push it to gitlab. >> >> Hmm. If I understand correctly, it sounds like this will discard the >> entire previous git history. If you want to maintain this package and >> host the repository yourself (as opposed to us relying on Software >> Heritage), I would advocate trying again until you can properly clone >> the existing repository. We can help if needed. It's important to get >> this right now, because git history cannot be rewritten after the fact, >> and it's important to preserve the existing history. Yeah unfortunately the gitlab url I added don't have any git history. If you can help me retrieve it from software heritage like a git clone or so with the git version history that would be very nice. I tried finding a way and looked at swh.scm but I couldn't figure it out within any reasonable amount of time. Sincerely, David L