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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Using IPFS to host mirrors of source packages
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 10:18:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a82sdngs.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170811151019.GB20919@thebird.nl> (Pjotr Prins's message of "Fri, 11 Aug 2017 17:10:19 +0200")

Hello,

Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:

> By hosting source packages on IPFS they become content addressable and
> should scale for downloads. It would also become a safe way of
> distributing data. 
>
> https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs

I would love such a thing to happen (that’s also why we had a GSoC on
using GNUnet’s file sharing capabilities a while back.)

The simplest thing to get started, as you wrote, would be to have an
HTTPS gateway to IPFS (which ‘guix substitute’ could readily talk to
without any modification), though one would still need to populate IPFS
in the first place.

Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-22  8:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-11 15:10 Using IPFS to host mirrors of source packages Pjotr Prins
2017-08-11 15:33 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2017-08-11 19:17 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-08-12 13:58   ` Pjotr Prins
2017-08-13  7:36 ` Arun Isaac
2017-08-22  8:18 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-08-22  8:38   ` ng0
2017-08-22  9:14     ` Pjotr Prins
2017-08-22 10:17       ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-08-22 16:49         ` Pjotr Prins
2017-08-22 22:27           ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-08-22 19:31       ` ng0
2017-08-22  9:17     ` ng0
     [not found] <mailman.1213.1502464262.21956.guix-devel@gnu.org>
2017-08-11 15:44 ` Joshua Sierles

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