From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Libreoffice source disappeared
Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 12:42:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878t8ewqts.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874lj6daa3.fsf@gmail.com>
Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:
> * For a given version X.Y.Z, the release cycle behaves like this:
>
> * Before the release is announced, any number of X.Y.Z.N release
> candidates may be published. Based on what we saw just recently, as
> new releases are added, the old ones will be removed from the main
> download location.
>
> * Once the release is announced, no further X.Y.Z.N release candidates
> will be published, and the last "N" is used as the X.Y.Z release.
>
> So, the reason 5.4.7.2 replaced 5.4.7.1 when it came out is because the
> 5.4.7 release hasn't been announced yet. Until the 5.4.7 release has
> been announced, we might see more release candidates (e.g., 5.4.7.3).
Oh, that’s counter intuitive. I would have thought that 5.4.7.3 would
be more recent than 5.4.7, and I think that the Guix version comparator
would agree.
Does this mean we should avoid release candidates?
>>> FYI, when I asked on the LibreOffice IRC channel, they told me that old
>>> releases can be found here:
>>>
>>> http://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/5.4.7.1/src/libreoffice-5.4.7.1.tar.xz
>>>
>>> Maybe we should add the "old" archives (and mirrors thereof, if any
>>> exist) to the list of mirrors, so that when they remove a published
>>> release, we have a chance of automatically fetching it from the "old"
>>> archives. What do you think?
>>
>> Yes, we should add this alternate address.
>
> Actually, today they told me that the "old" location contains
> everything, even the new releases. To simplify things, perhaps we
> should always just use the "old" location. What do you think?
It’s fine to use both.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-21 10:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-17 5:22 Libreoffice source disappeared Chris Marusich
2018-05-17 5:31 ` Leo Famulari
2018-05-17 7:13 ` Chris Marusich
2018-05-20 10:42 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2018-05-21 17:18 ` Leo Famulari
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