The mirror of my old #GNUArch archives now has a top-level README, conveniently pointing to the blog post I just wrote, with step-by step examples on how to retrieve the sources of the Perl module that triggered this whole restoration exercise.
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My old #GNUArch archives are now up on http://tla.madhouse-project.org/, and they can be registered and retrieved and all that.

It's not easy, though, and I will likely put up a README at the top level to explain how to make it work.

First: the TLA version in nixpkgs does not seem to play well with https, so the archives have to be registered with a http URL.

Second, tla get wants to use tar -m --preserve -zxf -, but modern tar considers --preserve ambigous, so I made a small wrapper that rewrites --preserve to --preserve-permissions. Then I could tla get my old stuff.

I originally wanted to resurrect some historic stuff from there, convert them to git, but... that's too much work for very little reward. I might do that some other time, but not today.

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Added some more repos to my #gnuarch mirror, found in a dump of the old gna.org (h/t @abentley for the pointer). Some repos are defective in the archive, and tla isn’t the most resilient tool either. Let’s see if there’s any way to recover them, but probably not…

Currently downloading: dumps of projects hosted on berlios.de. Let’s see what hidden treasures of the early naughts are to be found in there.

Fun fact: the gna.org collection contains some of my own ancient code. Good times!

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There used to be the idea that "the Internet doesn't forget." Well, it does.

I just received a new set of historical (that is, 2003-2005) #GNUarch repositories from somebody's archives which are now published at https://arch.georgi.software/ (and will end up on archive.org soon enough) but I fear there won't be a lot to follow.

Just like old mailing lists and web sites slowly disappearing, that's a chunk of the early computing history that historians of the 22nd century won't be able to interpret because it's gone.
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