Hi, I did a mistake and the bug report had not been CC.
Cheers, simon -------------------- Start of forwarded message -------------------- From: zimoun <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> To: Johannes Rosenberger <johan...@jorsn.eu> 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 <johan...@jorsn.eu> 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 -------------------- End of forwarded message --------------------
