From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Using IPFS to host mirrors of source packages Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 17:33:11 +0200 Message-ID: <87a836unk8.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20170811151019.GB20919@thebird.nl> Reply-To: alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: <guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org> Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55777) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>) id 1dgBw8-0002CX-Ot for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 11:33:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>) id 1dgBw4-0002e4-QC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 11:33:20 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-x233.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::233]:35615) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>) id 1dgBw4-0002dj-JS for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 11:33:16 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-x233.google.com with SMTP id m85so44476584wma.0 for <guix-devel@gnu.org>; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 08:33:14 -0700 (PDT) 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. I would be willing to dedicate (part of the) resources on a UK based (small) VPS for an initiative of this type (doesn't necessarily have to be IPFS, but this sounds good so far :-) ). Best wishes, Alex