From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>,
Jason Self <jself@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Linux-libre source code will be taken offline
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 16:17:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtnxbocu.fsf@ponder> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnn1hcrr.fsf@netris.org>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1791 bytes --]
On 2021-09-27, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 04, 2021 at 01:32:16PM -0700, Jason Self wrote:
>>> The scripts are not being removed and my understanding is that Guix
>>> only uses the scripts anyway.
>>
>> Okay, that's great. We do use the scripts.
>
> Unfortunately, the older deblobbing scripts have now been removed from
> the HTTPS URLs that our linux-libre build recipes fetched them from, so
> I guess there will now be difficulties for users trying to reproduce any
> Guix system more than about a month old.
>
> If we wish to preserve Guix users' ability to reproduce older systems,
> we will need an 'origin' to fetch the Linux-libre deblob scripts from
> that has a policy of retaining older releases, unchanged and at a fixed
> location. Apparently the HTTPS URLs at <https://linux-libre.fsfla.org>
> that we currently use are not suitable for that purpose.
>
> The Linux-libre git repository *might* be suitable, but I haven't yet
> seen a commitment from the Linux-libre project that they will retain the
> tags for older flawed deblobbing scripts in their repository going
> forward. Without tags protecting them, I guess the commits could be
> deleted by 'git-gc' even if we referenced them directly by their commit
> hashes.
>
> Perhaps the SWH fallback is the answer we need, if they are archiving
> the Linux-libre git repository. Does anyone know if they are?
The most promising two I found were:
https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=git://linux-libre.fsfla.org/releases.git
https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https://jxself.org/git/linux-libre.git
Not sure exactly how Software Heritage handles rebased branches...
live well,
vagrant
[-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 227 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-27 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-04 18:17 Linux-libre source code will be taken offline Leo Famulari
2021-09-04 20:32 ` Jason Self
2021-09-06 17:36 ` Leo Famulari
2021-09-27 22:30 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-09-27 23:17 ` Vagrant Cascadian [this message]
2021-09-28 13:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-09-27 23:30 ` Leo Famulari
2021-09-28 0:13 ` zimoun
2021-09-28 0:17 ` zimoun
2021-09-28 0:46 ` Jason Self
2021-09-28 8:43 ` zimoun
2021-09-28 14:02 ` Jason Self
2021-09-28 14:30 ` Jason Self
2021-09-28 17:11 ` zimoun
2021-09-28 17:52 ` Jason Self
2021-09-29 8:50 ` zimoun
2021-10-08 1:58 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-10-11 8:43 ` zimoun
2021-09-08 22:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-09-08 23:46 ` Why linux-libre source code is not in sources.json zimoun
2021-09-09 7:37 ` zimoun
2021-09-09 9:50 ` Maxime Devos
2021-09-09 17:18 ` zimoun
2021-09-11 0:22 ` Linux-libre source code via SWH sources.json zimoun
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87mtnxbocu.fsf@ponder \
--to=vagrant@debian.org \
--cc=guix-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=jself@gnu.org \
--cc=leo@famulari.name \
--cc=mhw@netris.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.