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On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:03:44 +0000 (UTC) |
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Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> So I would not worry too much about it: It is not worth the cost of |
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> hosting a huge number of tarballs permanently (or to convince |
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> upstream to let them be hosted by github for every single version, |
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> only because one cannot theoretically exclude that a similar thing |
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> won't ever happen again). Yes, for the transition period (until all |
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> github servers use a new enough version) a solution for the few |
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> involved tarballs has to be found (like temporarily hosting on |
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> devspace). But after this period it is only a question of updating the |
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> checksum once for the involved packages. |
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Agreed. I use this GitHub feature quite a lot and I've only ever seen |
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this happen maybe once? Even then, I think it might have been one of |
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the additional downloads rather than the git archives, which upstream |
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had probably replaced without bumping. |
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James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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