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Tiny Core Base => TCB Talk => Topic started by: saper on November 12, 2023, 03:15:26 PM

Title: Archiving old releases to Internet Archive?
Post by: saper on November 12, 2023, 03:15:26 PM

Regularly old releases are being removed from the website (as announced in this forum (https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,26497.0.html). Maybe it would be a possibility to archive these to the Internet Archive (https://archive.org)? Unlike the well known Wayback Machine, one has to actively publish stuff to the Internet Archive. It is even able to run some software in the browser!

I am think people from The Archive Team (https://wiki.archiveteam.org/) could be of help here. Maybe even the extensions could be made downloadable from there.

I have worked with IA archives in the past and I can help, too.

Title: Re: Archiving old releases to Internet Archive?
Post by: curaga on November 13, 2023, 02:15:46 AM

I posted the 1.x and 2.x isos there for historical purposes, but it's way too cumbersome for extensions, and later release isos have less historical interest anyway. So I won't be doing that for later releases. However everything's freely available, you don't need our permission to post a copy of the isos or extensions - please go ahead if you'd like to do so.

Title: Re: Archiving old releases to Internet Archive?
Post by: mocore on November 18, 2023, 01:24:48 AM

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related : "3.x release to be removed by year's end ... ?softwareheritage.org?"
@ https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,26498.msg170803.html#msg170803

Title: Re: Archiving old releases to Internet Archive?
Post by: gadget42 on November 18, 2023, 02:48:13 AM

stumbled across this document recently:
https://repo.jing.rocks/devuan/devuan_mirror_walkthrough.txt

near the end of it there was a reference to mirror checking.

i only visited(but definitely enjoyed) this one:
https://sledjhamr.org/apt-panopticon/results/Report-web.html

also the list of mirrors was fun:
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/mirror_list.txt

i wonder what the "over-duplication-factor" is on the larger projects(say debian/devuan for just one example)?

enjoy!

Title: Re: Archiving old releases to Internet Archive?
Post by: CentralWare on November 19, 2023, 04:43:14 AM

@curaga: I have to run a sync with v3.x before it goes into the ether at year's end to make sure I have copies of source code for all of our support files in /usr/s-bin /usr/local/s-bin etc.
For example, the source code for /usr/bin/autoscan-devices is in the 3.5 archive - and nowhere later that I've come across.  There are a few binaries I haven't found sources on yet (sudo and visudo for example!) to match our apps, but I just started doing this yesterday, so it's far from being complete.

If you guys have these items all combined into a root source package, etc. please feel free to enlighten me! :)

Thanks!

Title: Re: Archiving old releases to Internet Archive?
Post by: Rich on November 19, 2023, 08:27:13 AM

Hi CentralWare
Some of Tinycores source code has been migrated to here:
https://github.com/tinycorelinux

autoscan-devices.c  can be found here:
https://github.com/tinycorelinux/tc-misc

The source for the current version (1.7.8p1) sudo (and visudo)
is over here:
http://tinycorelinux.net/4.x/x86/archive/4.7.7/src/4.2/

Title: Re: Archiving old releases to Internet Archive?
Post by: curaga on November 19, 2023, 11:23:02 AM

Yeah sw written by us should all be at github.

Title: Re: Archiving old releases to Internet Archive?
Post by: CentralWare on November 20, 2023, 05:57:41 AM

Thanks, guys!  I'll send over a list when "inventory" is done so we can sync it up @ github
(tc-config might get altered from time to time as needs change, but many of our files rarely ever get dusted -- they "just work."  The last thing I'd want to see is something from days of old being on the chopping block and "gone forever" with a history purge :) )

* github masters primaries what ever we're allowed to call them these days and the sudo sources have been added to our archives