[Nix-dev] Pkgs with unstable links

[Thomas Strobel]

time :)

On 09/12/2015 01:00 PM, Domen Kožar wrote:
> I've opened an issue two years ago on
> nixpkgs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/970
>
> Those packages should be mirrored to tarballs.nixos.org
> <http://tarballs.nixos.org>.
>
> What's missing for that to happen?
>
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Thomas Strobel <ts468 at cam.ac.uk
> <mailto:ts468 at cam.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 09/12/2015 12:42 AM, Peter Simons wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     >  > I would like to ask if we can create repo on github
>     (nixos/foobar)
>     >  > and upload there such pkgs? Or even are there some free
>     fileservers
>     >  > where we can store such things? That's a pretty tedious
>     problem and
>     >  > indeed we need to solve it.
>     >
>     > And while we're at it, we should also mirror all of rPackages
>     somewhere,
>     > because these people frequently modify their release archives
>     in-place,
>     > breaking hundreds of our builds in the process. :-(
>     >
>     > Peter
>
>     I'm looking into ways how to extend the mirroring that is already done
>     at tarballs.nixos.org <http://tarballs.nixos.org>. The plan is to
>     mirror everything that any nixpkgs
>     package references. Maybe that solves those problems as well. In the
>     long run I could imagine to place the mirrored files into something
>     like, e.g., IPFS (nixos.go14Packages.ipfs). As far as I know IPFS
>     might
>     get a S3 back-end with its next release, so maybe the nix cache
>     could be
>     provided over IPFS as well. Just sharing my thoughts here...
>
>     Thomas
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