Hi, I am currently working on Hydra aborted jobs, and for a few packages the sources totally disappeared.
An example of this is the directfb package. The site http://www.directfb.org/ returns server not found. (there is even a news on phoronix regarding that [1]) It doesn't look like a temporary failure as the news is from end of August. What would be the best way to deal with such cases? I can think of: 1/ mark the package as broken until upstream reappear. 2/ get the source from another place (phoronix comments mentions archive.org) 3/ As some packages in nixpkgs have http://tarballs.nixos.org/ as source, download the latest source archive and upload it there. 1 is not a real solution as upstream might never reappear, 2 seems a little fragile as the new source is not official and could fail so 3 seems the best solution. But I couldn't find any instructions on how to put files in http://tarballs.nixos.org/ in the available resources. What would be the best way to deal with such problems? [1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DirectFB-Is-It-Gone [2] https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.directfb.org/ -- Eric Sagnes サニエ エリック _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
