On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Björn Grüning <bjoern.gruening(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Peter,
Am 08.08.2016 um 15:54 schrieb Peter Cock:
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Eric Rasche <esr(a)tamu.edu> wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> The cargo port is the ideal place for this, however it does not support
>> manual uploads of files.
>>
>
> Thanks Eric,
>
> You mean
https://github.com/galaxyproject/cargo-port
>
> Is that something which might be addressed in future? The use case
> is when a previously public file stops working (either temporarily or
> permanently), so you can't use the official URL to make the cached
> copy?
>
> Would it be OK to use a short lived URL like a personal dropbox URL,
> and then once cached, update urls.tsv with the original official
> (but broken) URL?
Yes this is totally fine. We just need to have a way to verify and check
tarballs before upload and we thought github and PR are a nice fit for this.
Thanks,
Bjoern
(I can't find the Mac binaries for MIRA 4.9.5, hopefully I might have
that on my home machine but it's a long shot.)
Peter