Re: [PATCH 1/6] pkgs/skaware: vendor backported patches

[Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>]

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colbyt <colby@colbyt.com> writes:

> Two skaware backports were fetched from cgit patch endpoints.  Those
> endpoints are not stable enough for package inputs: the same URL can
> return an unrelated patch, breaking the build before the VM can start.
>
> Keep the small upstream diffs in-tree instead.  The package still
> applies the same s6 and mdevd fixes, and the comments next to each patch
> record the upstream commit IDs.
>
> Signed-off-by: colbyt <colby@colbyt.com>

Yes, it has been unreliable… I looked into it before and it seemed like
it was some sort of overzealous anti-scraper mitigation.  I reported it
but it doesn't seem to have been improved, so something should be done
here.  I prefer not vendoring patches unless absolutely necessary
because experience from Homebrew and Nixpkgs shows they can end up
permanently accumulating quite an impact on repo size over time, but
these repos have an official GitHub mirror, so I'll change to fetching
the patches from there instead.  Thanks!

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