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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: add sparta-dsmc
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 14:37:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160405183722.GB7213@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160405172135.GA14293@debian-netbook>

On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 08:21:35PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 12:04:56PM -0500, Lukas Gradl wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 04:26:59AM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 03:55:51PM -0500, Lukas Gradl wrote:
> > > > Hello Guix!
> > > > 
> > > > Attached is a patch to add the SPARTA Direct Simulation Monte Carlo
> > > > Software.
> > > > 
> > > > There maybe is a problem with the source URL: The URL always points to
> > > > the latest version of the source tar ball which is constantly updated
> > > > and immediately released by upstream.  This means that the hash of the
> > > > source tar ball available at this URL changes several times a month.  Is
> > > > this acceptable or does anyone have an idea how this should be handled?
> > > 
> > > I assume you've looked for a more stable URL. Are there other distros
> > > that have solved this problem? Can you contact the SPARTA developers and
> > > ask if there is a solution?
> > 
> > AFAIK this software is not packaged in any other distro.  I am already
> > in contact with the author of SPARTA, he provided the URL that I used in
> > the patch.  I explained the problem to him and I am waiting for his
> > response.
> > 
> > Thank you!
> 
> Not just for this package but potentially for others, could we stick a
> copy on archive.org with a date-stamp or something?

There have been a few packages with unsuitable source URLs in the past,
but I've never paid much attention to how we resolved the issue. It
would be helpful to have a "go-to" solution for this sort of thing,
although in each case the best solution would be for upstream to
maintain a release archive.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-05 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-04 20:55 [PATCH] gnu: add sparta-dsmc Lukas Gradl
2016-04-05  8:26 ` Leo Famulari
2016-04-05 17:04   ` Lukas Gradl
2016-04-05 17:21     ` Efraim Flashner
2016-04-05 18:37       ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-04-23  6:47       ` Lukas Gradl
2016-04-25 19:03         ` Leo Famulari
2016-04-25 20:11           ` Lukas Gradl

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