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Re: [PATCH] gnu: add sparta-dsmc
From: |
Leo Famulari |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] gnu: add sparta-dsmc |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:03:21 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) |
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 01:47:18AM -0500, Lukas Gradl wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 08:21:35PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 12:04:56PM -0500, Lukas Gradl wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 04:26:59AM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 03:55:51PM -0500, Lukas Gradl wrote:
> > > > > Hello Guix!
> > > > >
> > > > > Attached is a patch to add the SPARTA Direct Simulation Monte Carlo
> > > > > Software.
> > > > >
> > > > > There maybe is a problem with the source URL: The URL always points to
> > > > > the latest version of the source tar ball which is constantly updated
> > > > > and immediately released by upstream. This means that the hash of the
> > > > > source tar ball available at this URL changes several times a month.
> > > > > Is
> > > > > this acceptable or does anyone have an idea how this should be
> > > > > handled?
> > > >
> > > > I assume you've looked for a more stable URL. Are there other distros
> > > > that have solved this problem? Can you contact the SPARTA developers and
> > > > ask if there is a solution?
> > >
> > > AFAIK this software is not packaged in any other distro. I am already
> > > in contact with the author of SPARTA, he provided the URL that I used in
> > > the patch. I explained the problem to him and I am waiting for his
> > > response.
> > >
> > > Thank you!
> >
> > Not just for this package but potentially for others, could we stick a
> > copy on archive.org with a date-stamp or something?
>
>
> Sorry for the long delay!
>
> My message to upstream is still unanswered, so I went ahead and uploaded
> the tar ball to archive.org. Attached is an updated patch.
Do we at least know why the tarball keeps changing? For example, is it a
new release? Have you inspected the differences from one to the next?
If the upstream author could say, "use this tarball with hash xxx[...]",
we could confidently distribute software from the author to our users.
Thanks for you work on this so far!