From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Using IPFS to host mirrors of source packages Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 10:18:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87a82sdngs.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20170811151019.GB20919@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 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]:37508) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <ludo@gnu.org>) id 1dk4Ou-0008Tq-Fm for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 04:19:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <ludo@gnu.org>) id 1dk4Or-00052i-C5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 04:19:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170811151019.GB20919@thebird.nl> (Pjotr Prins's message of "Fri, 11 Aug 2017 17:10:19 +0200") 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> 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.=20 > > https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs I would love such a thing to happen (that=E2=80=99s also why we had a GSoC = on using GNUnet=E2=80=99s 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 =E2=80=98guix substitute=E2=80=99 could readil= y talk to without any modification), though one would still need to populate IPFS in the first place. Ludo=E2=80=99.