From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Outdated package "r-scales" Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:52:02 +0200 Message-ID: <87wpvya9fh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <55F0943B.40100@gmail.com> <87wpvzqnsh.fsf@gmail.com> 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]:49005) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZyWc-0005J5-Gk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 05:52:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZyWb-0006cs-H3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 05:52:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87wpvzqnsh.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:35:10 +0300") 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Alex Kost Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Alex Kost skribis: > Cyril Roelandt (2015-09-09 23:19 +0300) wrote: > >> On 09/09/2015 09:50 PM, Vicente Vera wrote: >>> Hello, >>> Right now installing r-ggplot2 fails because dependency r-scales can't >>> be found on CRAN mirrors: >>>=20 >>> ERROR: download failed >>> "http://cran.../src/contrib/scales_0.2.5.tar.gz" 404 "Not Found" >>>=20 >> >> Are old versions always removed from the CRAN mirrors? > > Hm, it looks like there is a separate URL for the latest tarball: > > mirror://cran/src/contrib/.tar.gz > > and an archive of the previous versions: > > mirror://cran/src/contrib/Archive//.tar.gz Then I think we should always add the two URLs and change the importer to do so. Ricardo, WDYT? Ludo=E2=80=99.