[bug#43442] [PATCH 1/2] gnu: mpfi: Replace 'url-fetch' by 'svn-fetch'.

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:

> On Fri, 25 Sep 2020 at 10:56, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Note that the original svn revision number is discarded, AFAICS.
>
> No, it is not... but to find it one needs a bit of guidance by SWH folks. :-)
>
> 1. With the URL, fetch:
> https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/origin/https://scm.gforge.inria.fr/anonscm/svn/mpfi/visit/latest/
>
> 2. From #1 one gets 'snapshot' and fetch:
> https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/snapshot/e7fdd4dc6230f710dbc55c1b308804fa1b5f51f0/
>
> 3. From #3, one gets the 'target' and fetch:
> https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/revision/f7b445a6bdc38bf075f29265120ca49824f698ea/log/
>
> And #3 lists all the revisions in SWH.

Ah yes, under “extra_headers” there’s the SVN revision number.  (guix
swh) doesn’t expose “extra_headers” yet, but once it does, we can walk
snapshots until we find the SVN revision we’re looking for.

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scheme@(guile-user)> (lookup-origin "https://scm.gforge.inria.fr/anonscm/svn/mpfi/")
$3 = #<<origin> visits-url: "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/origin/https://scm.gforge.inria.fr/anonscm/svn/mpfi/visits/" type: #f url: "https://scm.gforge.inria.fr/anonscm/svn/mpfi">
scheme@(guile-user)> (origin-visits $3)
$4 = (#<<visit> date: #<date nanosecond: 902765 second: 25 minute: 53 hour: 21 day: 21 month: 9 year: 2020 zone-offset: 0> origin: "https://scm.gforge.inria.fr/anonscm/svn/mpfi" url: "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/origin/https://scm.gforge.inria.fr/anonscm/svn/mpfi/visit/1/" snapshot-url: "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/snapshot/e7fdd4dc6230f710dbc55c1b308804fa1b5f51f0/" status: full number: 1>)
scheme@(guile-user)> (visit-snapshot (car $4))
$5 = #<<snapshot> branches: (#<<branch> name: "HEAD" target-type: revision target-url: "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/revision/f7b445a6bdc38bf075f29265120ca49824f698ea/">)>
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So the next step is to augment (guix swh) with a
‘lookup-subversion-revision’ procedure.

Thanks for investigating!

Ludo’.