From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?QmrDtnJuIEjDtmZsaW5n?= Subject: Re: Internet Archive APIs useful as fallback? Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 22:28:46 +0100 Message-ID: <20181219222846.5af6a8dd@alma-ubu> References: <161edf75-57b7-4d5b-8acf-a4c61358add1@riseup.net> <87d0pxwon3.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/oyPmrF.KFT+Aqk3fk9M9VfG"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48764) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gZjOo-0001Lq-VJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2018 16:29:03 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gZjOl-0003VW-PG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2018 16:29:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87d0pxwon3.fsf@gnu.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: Ludovic =?UTF-8?B?Q291cnTDqHM=?= Cc: guix-devel --Sig_/oyPmrF.KFT+Aqk3fk9M9VfG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 15:57:04 +0100 Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > We added support to retrieve Git checkouts (and some tarballs) from > Software Heritage recently: >=20 > https://issues.guix.info/issue/33432 >=20 > The Internet Archive is not in the business of archiving software, but > it=E2=80=99d be interesting to see if it archives tarballs that people pu= t on > =E2=80=9Crandom=E2=80=9D web sites, in which case it could also be useful. We sometimes use it to replace expired packages or home-page URIs: In some cases, the home-page or even the tar-file is in the archive. But that is a manual step of cause. A famous example of recent time is the package bzip2, where the domain expired and was taken over. Bj=C3=B6rn --Sig_/oyPmrF.KFT+Aqk3fk9M9VfG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlwauA8ACgkQvyhstlk+X/1EUwCfaVhE3JoWo334iLNMnk2dC9xJ GE8AnAjkoXkQ7BMAedggLjO1vQCMBcnJ =WojI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/oyPmrF.KFT+Aqk3fk9M9VfG--