Subject: Re: [bug#43442] [PATCH 1/2] gnu: mpfi: Replace 'url-fetch' by 'svn-fetch'.

From: zimoun <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 23:01:03 +0200

On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 at 22:26, zimoun <[email-masked]> wrote:

> 1. With the URL, fetch:
> https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/origin/https://scm.gforge.inria.fr/anonscm/svn/mpfi/visit/latest/
>
> 2. From #1 one gets 'snapshot' and fetch:
> https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/snapshot/e7fdd4dc6230f710dbc55c1b308804fa1b5f51f0/
>
> 3. From #3, one gets the 'target' and fetch:
> https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/revision/f7b445a6bdc38bf075f29265120ca49824f698ea/log/
>
> And #3 lists all the revisions in SWH.
>
> Well, this should be enough for the saving request.  WDYT?
>

> However, it is not clear how to fetch cooking from the vault.  To be
> continued...

>From #3, using 'directory' (4193e93b4aea0abeaff715b1a1274c4d7eb4a27d),
it seems possible to cook from the vault and get the tarball (I did
with the web interface).  And the integrity field (guix hash -r) is
the same as the one I put in the patch submission.