Re: Cook source disappeared

2016-07-25 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Leo Famulari skribis: > This project is trying to address the problem: > https://www.softwareheritage.org/ > > I wonder if Guix can use that archive as a last resort? Yes, when it’s available (currently there’s no HTTP API that we can use). I discussed our use case with the

Re: Cook source disappeared

2016-07-24 Thread John Darrington
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 08:15:55PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 03:58:30AM +0200, John Darrington wrote: > It looks as if his entire home page is now gone. As I recall, it used to be hosted > by the Australian Unix User Group. I suggest they just re-arranged

Re: Cook source disappeared

2016-07-24 Thread Andreas Enge
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 03:58:30AM +0200, John Darrington wrote: > It looks as if his entire home page is now gone. As I recall, it used to be > hosted > by the Australian Unix User Group. I suggest they just re-arranged their web > site, > and it somehow got inadvertently dropped. > > It

Re: Cook source disappeared

2016-07-24 Thread Andreas Enge
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 09:10:46PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote: > There's also fossies That is what I used in the end. Andreas

Re: Cook source disappeared

2016-07-24 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 12:45:57PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 06:25:14PM +0200, John Darrington wrote: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/issues.html > > > > But if I understand correctly, that is not going to do anything if hydra's > > internal >

Re: Cook source disappeared

2016-07-24 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 06:25:14PM +0200, John Darrington wrote: > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/issues.html > > But if I understand correctly, that is not going to do anything if hydra's > internal > cache is good. From what Andraes says, we only noticed this because we

Re: Cook source disappeared

2016-07-24 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 04:12:07PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote: > On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 03:58:30AM +0200, John Darrington wrote: > > I wonder if it would be worth having some kind of daemon which crawls and > > flags > > sources which are either missing, or have bad checksums? > >

Re: Cook source disappeared

2016-07-24 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 03:58:30AM +0200, John Darrington wrote: > Yes, like Leo says, Peter Miller is deceased. > > It looks as if his entire home page is now gone. As I recall, it used to be > hosted > by the Australian Unix User Group. I suggest they just re-arranged their web > site, >

Re: Cook source disappeared

2016-07-23 Thread John Darrington
Yes, like Leo says, Peter Miller is deceased. It looks as if his entire home page is now gone. As I recall, it used to be hosted by the Australian Unix User Group. I suggest they just re-arranged their web site, and it somehow got inadvertently dropped. It might well be worth a mail to the

Re: Cook source disappeared

2016-07-23 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Leo, On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 03:23:35PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > The author of cook and Aegis, Peter Miller, died in 2014 [0]. thank you for this information! > I noticed the missing source code last year, and I didn't find a new > "canonical" source for it. Perhaps we can find it in

Re: Cook source disappeared

2016-07-23 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 08:46:56PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: > in Guix, the "cook" package currently does not build for lack of source > (it is possible that the source has disappeared a while ago, but that > this was only noticed once the cache broke down with hydra.gnu.org). > The Free Software

Cook source disappeared

2016-07-23 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, in Guix, the "cook" package currently does not build for lack of source (it is possible that the source has disappeared a while ago, but that this was only noticed once the cache broke down with hydra.gnu.org). The Free Software Directory mentions version 2.25 from 2004 with a home page