Re: A Forum for Guix Users

[Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net>]

MSavoritias <email@msavoritias.me> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> writes:
>>
>>> If the xapian indexer also analysed mailing list output (through
>>> publicinbox, for example) and maybe debbugs and IRC logs it would be
>>> complete. 
>>
>> It does index the IRC logs, but there’s a bug in the deployment:
>>
>>     https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/hydra/goggles.scm#n56
>>
>>>> 5. Substitute availability is good, but download speeds can be poor
>>>> due to peering issues.
>>>
>>> That is a matter of money, I guess.
>>
>> Peering issues can only be avoided by distributing the artifacts to many
>> different locations.  We’ve previously paid for distribution via AWS,
>> which was rather expensive.
>>
>> It might be better to revive the distribution over IPFS.
>
> Isn't it worked on still?
> My understanding was that we are waiting for:
> 1. ERIS to happen -> https://eris.codeberg.page/ which is here ->
> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/52555
> 2. and also https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2023 which uses
> ERIS.
>
> Not sure if it has been picked up yet. I dont follow gsoc closely.

Distributed substitutes was AFAIK not accepted for GSoC, only the
parameterized packages project was.