Hi, this sounds very much like the bioconda approach, they have self-archived / mirrored the packages, which is not ideal.
The Bio.tools people also ran into that issue earlier, and as mentioned in [1] is now fixed on the bioconductor side with stable download links. Yours, Steffen [1] https://github.com/bio-tools/biotoolsRegistry/issues/425#issuecomment-557270484 On Tue, 2020-03-31 at 12:27 -0700, Tim Sears wrote: > Hi > I am working to make bioconductor packages available through the nix > package manager (https://nixos.org/). Currently nixpkgs points to a > source > url on one of the bioconductor mirrors. nixpkgs tracks the url and a > sha256 > hash of the unpacked source link. Unfortunately the links themselves > often > disappear as the packages get updated either due to a version number > change > or changes inside the repo that affect the hash output. This breaks > corresponding nix package. This happens even for stable bioconductor > versions like 3.10. nixpkgs aims for reproducible builds, which means > when > things change, the url should reflect the change too and the contents > behich old urls should be preserved long enough to manage > the change. Do > you have any suggestions short of rebuilding a bioconductor mirror > with > immutable urls? > > Thanks, > TIm > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel -- Current bits of interest: * PSI Spring Meeting Online, 23.-25.03.2020, http://www.psidev.info/hupo-psi-meeting-2020 * Annual symposium of German Society for Metabolomics e.V. (DGMet) in Berlin 4.-5th November. https://www.mdc-berlin.de/dgmet-2020 --- IPB Halle Bioinformatics and Scientific Data Dr. Steffen Neumann http://www.IPB-Halle.DE *** Working from Home, available by Mail, Phone, Video Calls *** Weinberg 3 Tel. +49 (0) 345 5582 - 1470 06120 Halle +49 (0) 345 5582 - 0 sneumann(at)IPB-Halle.DE Fax. +49 (0) 345 5582 - 1409 _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
