Hi Timothy, Timothy Sample <samp...@ngyro.com> skribis:
> Allow me to present to you a long-overdue update to the Preservation of > Guix (PoG) report: <https://ngyro.com/pog-reports/2023-03-13/>. 🎉 Yay, thank you!! Do you think this could be turned into a Guix System service, with an eye towards making it run on project infrastructure? > Over the whole set, 77.1% are known to be safely tucked away in the > Software Heritage archive. But it’s actually much better than that. If > we only look at the most recent sampled commit (from Sunday the 5th), > that number becomes 87.4%, which is starting to look pretty good! Truly impressive! > I have a few more notes on the report, but I want to put this near the > top of the message so that people will see it. :) I wrote a script > (see attached) that uses the PoG database to find missing sources on a > packge-by-package basis. That is, you can run > > guix repl specification-to-swhids.scm pog.db bash Neat! > • Subversion support (for TeX-based documentation stuff, I guess) > • bzip2 support for Disarchive (there are 45 bzip2 tarballs) > • ZIP support for Disarchive (for the 8 ZIP files) > • lzip support for Disarchive (or a workaround for ed) > • Fix some issues (gettext is .tar.gz, but something went wrong) > • Do something with the static bootstrap binaries Subversion support should probably be high-priority because TeX Live is deep down in the dependency graph so if we ever lose it, we’re doomed. Thanks for the update! Ludo’.
