From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: bug#35010: Many CPAN download URLs are no longer available Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 17:18:00 -0400 Message-ID: <87va05baho.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58755) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h8tVH-0001YP-Tx for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2019 17:21:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h8tVG-0002Gz-SP for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2019 17:21:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47090) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h8tVG-0002Gq-Mt for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2019 17:21:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h8tVG-000082-Dv for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2019 17:21:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58519) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h8tV4-0001OX-Nx for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2019 17:20:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h8tTh-0001WI-QA for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2019 17:19:27 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([64.112.178.59]:41736) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h8tTh-0001W6-KA for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2019 17:19:25 -0400 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" To: 35010@debbugs.gnu.org Many perl packages cannot be built on hydra.gnu.org because the source code is no longer available at the source URLs known to Guix. Moreover, apparently they were gone by the time Hydra made its first build attempt. Here are some examples: mirror://cpan/authors/id/E/ET/ETHER/URI-1.76.tar.gz mirror://cpan/authors/id/S/SY/SYOHEX/Mouse-v2.5.6.tar.gz mirror://cpan/authors/id/S/SZ/SZABGAB/Class-Date-1.1.17.tar.gz mirror://cpan/authors/id/S/SZ/SZABGAB/SVG-2.84.tar.gz mirror://cpan/authors/id/A/AB/ABW/Template-Toolkit-2.28.tar.gz mirror://cpan/authors/id/D/DA/DAGOLDEN/Log-Any-1.707.tar.gz mirror://cpan/authors/id/K/KE/KENTNL/Carp-Clan-6.07.tar.gz mirror://cpan/authors/id/R/RJ/RJBS/Carp-1.50.tar.gz mirror://cpan/authors/id/D/DA/DAGOLDEN/File-Temp-0.2309.tar.gz mirror://cpan/authors/id/M/MA/MAKAMAKA/Text-CSV-1.99.tar.gz and these are the corresponding download derivations: /gnu/store/c73chq3k1z1n2wnbh0sbi2vwip6dfzbk-URI-1.76.tar.gz.drv /gnu/store/550r5gdrvs5370rsa2zwp1bs0xwj5dnm-Mouse-v2.5.6.tar.gz.drv /gnu/store/qxkgrj9gz1kp9id2d7d3mzrfn5b56019-Class-Date-1.1.17.tar.gz.drv /gnu/store/7239snjzan94plk58hw2zgachq71rh64-SVG-2.84.tar.gz.drv /gnu/store/qn1w1wvy5x2wngq4845j60i3qvkwhwvi-Template-Toolkit-2.28.tar.gz.drv /gnu/store/w1cb4r6c0v37xcjav6z16fzbc2zp47ff-Log-Any-1.707.tar.gz.drv /gnu/store/7gdg0aqsc3i7iwnrajcv6skkjbnf6z4r-Carp-Clan-6.07.tar.gz.drv /gnu/store/2b088r47jay82d91w62hr35lszqbdrkk-Carp-1.50.tar.gz.drv /gnu/store/jsddlzd5aba8vnjz1adggcxmvkgv5qf6-File-Temp-0.2309.tar.gz.drv /gnu/store/y2yb19kf1pfblhqwxcll7rrh6pgpr9sh-Text-CSV-1.99.tar.gz.drv At least some, and probably most, of these URIs were updated quite recently. For example, the 'perl-mouse', 'perl-carp-clan', and 'perl-file-temp' were all updated on March 23, and presumably the source URIs worked at that point, but then all three URIs had to be updated two days later to fix the broken download links. The CPAN download URLs that we are using are apparently not long-lived. Does anyone know if CPAN, or perhaps another site, offers more stable download URIs for these packages? Thanks, Mark