https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/3504#issuecomment-54260503 I asked the author to provide stable URLs and I thought that he agreed to do this, but then he disappeared and didn’t respond to my last email. I’m not sure what was going on. You might try to ask him too, I hope you’ll be able to persuade him.
Mirroring might be an easier way to go, but I don’t think we currently have infrastructure for this kind of things (like e.g. gentoo distfiles mirrors). On Sun Feb 08 2015 at 10:40:12 PM Daniel Peebles <[email protected]> wrote: > A little concerning that the tarball is changing under a given URL, > since this means that at some point in the future this will break > again (and that we lose history). Can we mirror it elsewhere or ask > upstream to adopt a more packaging-friendly approach to releases? > > On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Peter Simons <[email protected]> wrote: > > Applied in f02ccf6acd418e1e4d38ddb651f0d205838c3120. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > nix-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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