From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> Subject: Re: Using IPFS to host mirrors of source packages Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:06:15 +0530 Message-ID: <4ee002a1.AEEAOtIRgN0AAAAAAAAAAAOtZhgAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZkAF3@mailjet.com> References: <20170811151019.GB20919@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: <guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org> Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38332) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <4ee002a1.AEEAOtIRgN0AAAAAAAAAAAOtZhgAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZkAF3@bnc3.mailjet.com>) id 1dgnRl-0007Er-9L for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2017 03:36:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <4ee002a1.AEEAOtIRgN0AAAAAAAAAAAOtZhgAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZkAF3@bnc3.mailjet.com>) id 1dgnRi-0000HZ-2N for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2017 03:36:29 -0400 Received: from o178.p8.mailjet.com ([87.253.233.178]:37485) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <4ee002a1.AEEAOtIRgN0AAAAAAAAAAAOtZhgAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZkAF3@bnc3.mailjet.com>) id 1dgnRh-0000Dz-P1 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2017 03:36:25 -0400 In-reply-to: <20170811151019.GB20919@thebird.nl> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/guix-devel>, <mailto:guix-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/> List-Post: <mailto:guix-devel@gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:guix-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guix-devel>, <mailto:guix-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" <guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org> To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org> Pjotr Prins writes: > 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 > > Essentially the interplanetary file system allows for distributed > storage servers and a distributed DNS style resolution for finding > files. It allows people to share storage and by pooling storage we > can provide resilient access to all source packages. Especially the > ones that prove dodgy now. > > This should be fairly trivial to implement as long as some of us can > commit some storage. We could use the build farm. > > Next we can do the same for binary Guix packages. It would make for > way faster downloads when the Guix-deamon supports the protocol. > > Can we look into this? Who of us can host IPFS and expose port 4001? I > can put in some. Yes, I think we should look into this. I can host IPFS on port 4001 of my home server. I have rather low bandwidth (around 1 Mbps of upspeed, at best), but I can do my bit. =