On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 01:47:18AM -0500, Lukas Gradl wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 08:21:35PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 12:04:56PM -0500, Lukas Gradl wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 04:26:59AM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 03:55:51PM -0500, Lukas Gradl wrote: > > > > > Hello Guix! > > > > > > > > > > Attached is a patch to add the SPARTA Direct Simulation Monte Carlo > > > > > Software. > > > > > > > > > > There maybe is a problem with the source URL: The URL always points to > > > > > the latest version of the source tar ball which is constantly updated > > > > > and immediately released by upstream. This means that the hash of the > > > > > source tar ball available at this URL changes several times a month. > > > > > Is > > > > > this acceptable or does anyone have an idea how this should be > > > > > handled? > > > > > > > > I assume you've looked for a more stable URL. Are there other distros > > > > that have solved this problem? Can you contact the SPARTA developers and > > > > ask if there is a solution? > > > > > > AFAIK this software is not packaged in any other distro. I am already > > > in contact with the author of SPARTA, he provided the URL that I used in > > > the patch. I explained the problem to him and I am waiting for his > > > response. > > > > > > Thank you! > > > > Not just for this package but potentially for others, could we stick a > > copy on archive.org with a date-stamp or something? > > > Sorry for the long delay! > > My message to upstream is still unanswered, so I went ahead and uploaded > the tar ball to archive.org. Attached is an updated patch.
Do we at least know why the tarball keeps changing? For example, is it a new release? Have you inspected the differences from one to the next? If the upstream author could say, "use this tarball with hash xxx[...]", we could confidently distribute software from the author to our users. Thanks for you work on this so far!
