Hi I am working to make bioconductor packages available through the nix package manager (https://nixos.org/). Currently nixpkgs points to a source url on one of the bioconductor mirrors. nixpkgs tracks the url and a sha256 hash of the unpacked source link. Unfortunately the links themselves often disappear as the packages get updated either due to a version number change or changes inside the repo that affect the hash output. This breaks corresponding nix package. This happens even for stable bioconductor versions like 3.10. nixpkgs aims for reproducible builds, which means when things change, the url should reflect the change too and the contents behich old urls should be preserved long enough to manage the change. Do you have any suggestions short of rebuilding a bioconductor mirror with immutable urls?
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