Subject: [bug#39547] Addition of %content-addressed-mirrors to sources.json (SWH)?

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 17:19:11 +0100

Hello!

zimoun <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Some upstream sources could disappear between the moment when the
> package enters in Guix and the moment when SWH ingests it. (As an edge
> case, let consider the recent harfbuzz one.)
>
> Now the format 'sources.json' should accept an array. Does it make
> sense to put in this array the content addressed mirrors
> (ci.guix.gnu.org and tarball.nixos.org)?

Yes, I think ‘sources.json’ should contain, for each item, a list of
URLs rather than a single URL, and mirror:// URLs should be expanded.

However, ‘sources.json’ is currently specified to contain a single URL,
so we’re stuck with a single URL for now.

Is that what you meant?

Thanks,
Ludo’.