Hi! Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis:
> According to the linux-libre team in the #gnu-linux-libre IRC channel on > Libera.chat, all releases of linux-libre before 4.4.282, 4.9.281, > 4.14.245, 4.19.205, 5.4.143, 5.10.61, and 5.13.13 will be deleted from > their servers, and their Git repo is also going to be rewritten to > remove them. > > So, if anybody wanted to build old versions of Guix System (or > linux-libre based on old revisions of guix.git), some third party should > preserve and mirror those files and the Git repo: > > https://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/ > git://linux-libre.fsfla.org/releases.git At the time you wrote this message (Sep. 4), I and others who were present on IRC downloaded the tarballs to be on the safe side, so thanks for the heads-up! Now we have to see what’s available on berlin & co., and the extent to which SWH can help with this situation. So far I’m not sure about the tarball contents, but the repo seems to be archived: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- scheme@(guile-user)> ,m (guix swh) scheme@(guix swh)> (lookup-origin "https://guix.gnu.org/sources.json";) $2 = #<<origin> visits-url: "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/origin/https://guix.gnu.org/sources.json/visits/"; type: #<unspecified> url: "https://guix.gnu.org/sources.json";> scheme@(guix swh)> (car (origin-visits $2)) $3 = #<<visit> date: #<date nanosecond: 807978 second: 20 minute: 38 hour: 17 day: 8 month: 9 year: 2021 zone-offset: 0> origin: "https://guix.gnu.org/sources.json"; url: "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/origin/https://guix.gnu.org/sources.json/visit/313/"; snapshot-url: "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/snapshot/bfdb775f4768dd3d20231effbf29b96cd7184985/"; status: partial number: 313> scheme@(guix swh)> (define s (visit-snapshot $3)) scheme@(guix swh)> (car ((@@ (gnu packages linux) linux-libre-urls) "5.14.1" "gnu")) $4 = "https://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/5.14.1-gnu/linux-libre-5.14.1-gnu.tar.xz"; scheme@(guix swh)> (lookup-snapshot-branch s $4) $5 = #f scheme@(guix swh)> (lookup-snapshot-branch s (car ((@@ (gnu packages linux) linux-libre-urls) "5.13.14" "gnu1"))) $6 = #f scheme@(guix swh)> (lookup-snapshot-branch s (car ((@@ (gnu packages linux) linux-libre-urls) "5.10.62" "gnu1"))) $7 = #f scheme@(guix swh)> (lookup-origin "git://linux-libre.fsfla.org/releases.git") $8 = #<<origin> visits-url: "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/origin/git://linux-libre.fsfla.org/releases.git/visits/"; type: #<unspecified> url: "git://linux-libre.fsfla.org/releases.git"> scheme@(guix swh)> (car (origin-visits $8)) $9 = #<<visit> date: #<date nanosecond: 729324 second: 34 minute: 9 hour: 17 day: 4 month: 9 year: 2021 zone-offset: 0> origin: "git://linux-libre.fsfla.org/releases.git" url: "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/origin/git://linux-libre.fsfla.org/releases.git/visit/4/"; snapshot-url: "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/snapshot/cbf57c5bd0c5161c8df8853c64e96040b5c9cd9c/"; status: full number: 4> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- For some reason, we seem to be exporting only one tarball in sources.json currently (the file that SWH periodically reads): --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ wget -qO - https://guix.gnu.org/sources.json|jq |grep linux-libre.fsfla.org "https://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/5.4.20-gnu/linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz";, "https://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/5.4.20-gnu/linux-libre-5.4.20-gnu.tar.xz";, --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- We should check why we’re not providing all the URLs and fix it. > The reason for the removal is that some nonfree things were accidentally > not removed by the previous releases of the deblob scripts. IMO such issues should be treated as regular bugs, without compromising on transparency and availability. Thanks, Ludo’.
