[Nix-dev] How to handle Repositories which don't keep old versions?

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 27/09/13 17:09, Moritz Ulrich wrote:

> As some of you might be aware of, I built support for Emacs' package
> manager package.el into Nix. This is accomplished just like with node
> & python (a helper script generates a nix file) based on the
> repository's contents.
> 
> Unfortunately, package.el repositories don't keep old versions. If a
> package is updated, the old version is deleted. This is obviously
> problematic with Nix.
> 
> My question is: What's the best way to handle this? I personally have
> no problem hosting a mirror which keeps old versions, but I want to
> ask if you guys have other suggestions.

Yes, mirroring them is the best solution.

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