On Fri, Nov 08, 2024 at 08:18:54PM +0100, Troy Figiel wrote: > Why tarballs.nixos.org is used as a backup, I do not know. I do not > recall ever having seen this behaviour before.
The Nix cache has been used since 2016 to mitigate the problem of package sources disappearing from the net: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=cd436bf05a8344acf4462f3602e7d360821a902a
