Its definitely annoying. There's discussion about it involving ipfs.
One stopgap solution is to rollback just for only that package. You can do that with nix-env -f on a tar.gz archive of nixpkgs from a commit hash on github. On 08/05/2016 10:19 AM, "J. R. Haigh" <james.r.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Nix project leaders, > I don't find NixOS to be very deterministic at all, and it's > nearly always for the same reason: source files on random servers scattered > across the Internet going walkabouts. > Please can we have all source files hosted by the Nix project and > all source URLs in nixpkgs and nixpkgs-channels replaced or accompanied by > the Nix-hosted copies. Ideally there should be a way to specify multiple > URLs for each source file, so both the original and the Nix-hosted > locations can be specified, as well as any other mirrors if there are any. > As for the duration of the hosting, I think that at least every > release build that goes through Hydra to build live images and such should > keep hosted files (source or binary alike) indefinitely. Anything that was > not one of these Hydra builds I don't mind too much if they go missing > because I nearly always stick to the release builds, but it would still be > appreciated if all source files could be hosted indefinitely to aid with > binary searches of regressions or other changes. > Better still, if magnet URIs could be specified and Nix would > support downloading from torrents then it would be very easy to avoid > breakage due to missing source files. > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > In this specific instance, please could someone with commit access > resolve this breakage a.s.a.p.?: > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/blob/nixos-15.09/pkgs/tools/misc/moreutils/default.nix > Perhaps it could be done by updating it from 0.57 to 0.58 or by > finding it on another mirror somewhere. The Debian source archive at > http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/moreutils/ lists 0.47, 0.52, > and 0.58, but not 0.57. Moreutils is depended on by Mercurial and Mercurial > is a build dependency of many things, so that one source breakage has > broken a lot of things from building in the head of the NixOS 15.09 release > channel branch. > > Best regards, > James R. Haigh. > -- > Sent from Claws Mail on NixOS. > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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