Re: Repology and outdated packages

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> writes:

> On 2022-06-07, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
>> kiasoc5@disroot.org writes:
>>
>>> I've been watching the Repology page for Guix and I've noticed that
>>> we've dropped to 51% outdated packages
>>> [https://repology.org/repository/gnuguix]. We used to be at 40%
>>> outdated packages a few months ago.
>>
>> Repology hasn't been able to caught Guix package updates for a while
>> now. As a consequence, many packages are marked as outdated in Repology
>> even though they are not.
>
> I wondered about this again, and was pointed to:
>
>   https://github.com/repology/repology-updater/issues/1261
>
> Appears that where the website is hosted might indirectly (e.g. nobody
> explicitly configured this on guix infrastructure) have traffic
> originating in Russian blocked...
>
> Wonder if it makes sense to sync the files to multiple sites and put in
> round-robin DNS? Apparently it is already available at bayfront.

Assuming the website fall-back that exists on bayfront is complete,
that'd be worth it I believe.  If you're comfortable with DNS
configuration, send a patch effecting the change to the guix-maintenance
repo to guix-sysadmins@gnu.org for review!

Thanks,

Maxim