CDN Mirrors for GNU Guix

CDN Mirrors for GNU Guix

[Tom Li]

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Currently, GNU Guix is still in the early stage of development, and there is a great
lack of mirrors worldwide. For example. in my region, using GNU Guix is incredibly
slow, the speed is around 4 KiB/s and rendering it almost unusable.

Therefore, I created two CDN mirrors of https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/, by using
CloudFlare and Amazon CloudFront's service. I know some have the concerns about
such type of centralized corporation-controlled service. Personally, I have done my
best to minimized the security risks (HTTPS only, untouched signatures) and set ip
up faithfully. Please use it according to your own judgement.

they are available at:

* https://guix-cloudflare.tomli.me/
* https://guix-amazon.tomli.me/

Since they are identical mirrors of Hydra, you just need to use `--substitute-urls=`
in order to use it.

I have no experience on setting up mirrors. I expected to have some problems
related to cache things for too long. Please report any problems.

Happy Hacking!
Tom.

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Re: CDN Mirrors for GNU Guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

Tom Li <tomli@protonmail.ch> skribis:

> Therefore, I created two CDN mirrors of https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/, by using
> CloudFlare and Amazon CloudFront's service. I know some have the concerns about
> such type of centralized corporation-controlled service. Personally, I have done my
> best to minimized the security risks (HTTPS only, untouched signatures) and set ip
> up faithfully. Please use it according to your own judgement.
>
> they are available at:
>
> * https://guix-cloudflare.tomli.me/
> * https://guix-amazon.tomli.me/
>
> Since they are identical mirrors of Hydra, you just need to use `--substitute-urls=`
> in order to use it.

Thanks for sharing!

Ludo’.