Subject: Re: bug#46849: ELPA packages are fetched from unstable url -> not reproducible

From: zimoun <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2021 23:33:31 +0100

Hi,

I did a mistake and the bug report had not been CC.

Cheers,
simon

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From: zimoun <[email-masked]>
To: Johannes Rosenberger <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: bug#46849: ELPA packages are fetched from unstable url -> not
 reproducible
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2021 02:32:11 +0100

Hi,

Thanks for the notification.

On Mon, 01 Mar 2021 at 14:15, Johannes Rosenberger <[email-masked]> wrote:

> These are only available for the newest version of a package.
> ELPA keeps compressed archives only of around 20 hand-selected versions. 
> All package versions are kept in their git repo, which is a complete archive,
> but there you must somehow extract the commit hash of a version.

So it would break the “guix time-machine”, right?

There is 2 solutions:

 1- trust the future Tarball Heritage [1]
 2- switch to git-fetch all the ELPA packages.

> - https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=46441

About #2, I am confused by this quote:

        If you can work from the elpa.git instead, then you'll avoid
        those problems (but the content is slightly different, so it
        might be less convenient).

1: <https://git.ngyro.com/disarchive>

All the best,
simon
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