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Message #41 received at 39547 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 39547 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Addition of %content-addressed-mirrors to sources.json (SWH)?
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 17:19:11 +0100

Hello!

zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> 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’.

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