From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: bug#21784: Old XZ tarballs Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 20:58:27 +0100 Message-ID: <87si4sb02k.fsf_-_@gnu.org> References: <87r3kd8lpb.fsf@gnu.org> <20151030194730.4a2639ae@tukaani.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35445) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZsFpK-0004g4-Fg for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:59:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZsFpG-0000AR-FH for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:59:06 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:55820) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZsFpG-0000AN-BV for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:59:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZsFpG-0001bj-3P for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:59:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20151030194730.4a2639ae@tukaani.org> (Lasse Collin's message of "Fri, 30 Oct 2015 19:47:30 +0200") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Lasse Collin Cc: 21784@debbugs.gnu.org Hi, Lasse Collin skribis: > On 2015-10-29 Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >> "-=3D}\*/{=3D-" skribis: >>=20 >> > ERROR: download failed "http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.4.tar.gz" 403 >> > "Forbidden" >>=20 >> This seems to be an issue at tukaani.org since this URL is still >> listed at . >>=20 >> Lasse: Could it be that the permissions for old tarballs were >> inadvertently changed? > > As documented at the beginning of the page you linked, it's intentional > but (possibly) temporary. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. Sorry, I had overlooked that. > For some reason the old XZ Utils versions are more popular downloads > than the latest versions (5.0.8 and 5.2.2). Perhaps I should move the > downloads somewhere else to avoid bandwidth quota issues, Some people move old tarballs to an old/ sub-directory, to make sure people do not mistakenly take an old version. I don=E2=80=99t know if that would help here? > but on the other hand I feel that it's not nice if source-based > distributions rely on upstream servers instead of providing their own > distro-specific mirrors. If you think this isn't a reasonable wish, > feel free to say so. Guix does automatically mirror tarballs via its =E2=80=9Csubstitute=E2=80= =9D mechanism. However, users can turn it off, in which case they end up downloading the tarball from the upstream URL specified in the package recipe. > By the way, is there a reason why you use 5.0.4 instead of 5.0.8 (or > even 5.2.2)? No good reason! We=E2=80=99ll upgrade it as soon as this can be done witho= ut triggering too much rebuild/redownloads for users. Thank you, Ludo=E2=80=99.