Re: Unreleased wget

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> Speaking of core-updates, I made a mistake during the latest merge
> last spring. We needed a new wget release and the wget maintainers took
> some time, so I rolled a "non-release" 1.21.3.24 before the 1.21.4
> release (in core-updates, commit 93f9c260ac333ae7b86bfaeeead674fe01d924ce
> updates wget to the 1.21.4 release, one more reason to hope for a merge
> soon), for which I stored a .tar.lz on a server of my own.
>
> However, this release does not exist (and I actually removed the file from
> the server, but for the time being keep it still around on my laptop, and
> it is still available in the build farm); and I did not realise it would
> break the time machine (which I did not use at the time).
>
> Is there a good way forward to allow a way backward?

I’ve now uploaded a copy of that tarball to ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/mirror.
As a rule of thumb, we should always store upstream tarball copies or
variants thereof on that server.

For the record, here’s what we get right now when bypassing substitutes:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix time-machine -q --commit=8852e6bb5521edca099d6f346efc92db3244584c -- 
build -S wget --check
The following derivation will be built:
  /gnu/store/cqq5m8chqnbwpd0d59ai0v19hrpkxmay-wget-1.21.3.24-2b723.tar.lz.drv
building 
/gnu/store/cqq5m8chqnbwpd0d59ai0v19hrpkxmay-wget-1.21.3.24-2b723.tar.lz.drv...

Starting download of 
/gnu/store/12y21qcxcz9p2g3m29j3rw6g8660bni3-wget-1.21.3.24-2b723.tar.lz
>From https://www.multiprecision.org/wget-1.21.3.24-2b723.tar.lz...
download failed "https://www.multiprecision.org/wget-1.21.3.24-2b723.tar.lz"; 
404 "Not Found"

Starting download of 
/gnu/store/12y21qcxcz9p2g3m29j3rw6g8660bni3-wget-1.21.3.24-2b723.tar.lz
>From 
>https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/file/wget-1.21.3.24-2b723.tar.lz/sha256/17ip94mvax83h0gh4905jqc64g5qf3vgxr3bj9gn02pijjm5lzbp...
downloading from 
https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/file/wget-1.21.3.24-2b723.tar.lz/sha256/17ip94mvax83h0gh4905jqc64g5qf3vgxr3bj9gn02pijjm5lzbp
 ...

warning: rewriting hashes in 
`/gnu/store/5q1c82ncvcr77sbmz412ssiqv7ih42r2-wget-1.21.3.24-2b723.tar.lz'; 
cross fingers
successfully built 
/gnu/store/cqq5m8chqnbwpd0d59ai0v19hrpkxmay-wget-1.21.3.24-2b723.tar.lz.drv
successfully built 
/gnu/store/cqq5m8chqnbwpd0d59ai0v19hrpkxmay-wget-1.21.3.24-2b723.tar.lz.drv
/gnu/store/5q1c82ncvcr77sbmz412ssiqv7ih42r2-wget-1.21.3.24-2b723.tar.lz
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Thanks,
Ludo’.