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On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 2:11 AM, Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Please find below project suggestions for GNU Guix for this year’s GSoC. > > Thanks, > Ludo’. > > <h3 id="guix"><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/guix";>Guix</a></h3> > > <p>GNU Guix is a purely functional package manager, and associated free > software distribution, for the GNU system. In addition to standard > package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and > roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and > garbage collection.</p> > > <p><strong>Contact:</strong> [email protected] (to subscribe, see the > <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guix";>list-info > page</a>).<br/> > <strong>Mentors:</strong> <a href="mailto:[email protected]";>Ludovic > Courtès</a> > > <h4>Supporting binary package distribution through GNUnet</h4> > > <p> > GNU Guix provides a transparent binary/source deployment model. A > server can claim: “hey, I have the binary for > <tt>/nix/store/v9zic07iar8w90zcy398r745w78a7lqs-emacs-24.3</tt>!”, where > the > base32 string uniquely identifies a build process. If you trust that > server to provide genuine binaries, then you can grab them instead of > building Emacs locally. > </p> > > <p> > The “traditional model” has been to have a build farm build and serve > binary packages. In that model, users trust the build farm to provide > authentic binaries. > </p> > > <p> > The project aims to provide a <emph>practical</emph> decentralization > distribution mechanism for binary packages, using <a > href="/software/gnunet">GNUnet’s file sharing service</a>. In that > model, users would be able to automatically share binaries they have > built locally, and to install binaries built by other users. This is > part of a broader goal of <emph>disintermediation</emph> among users, > and between users and upstream software developers. > </p> > > <p> > Problems to be solved <a > href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-03/msg00085.html > ">include</a> > the authentication of binary packages, user privacy, and the development > of a user interface that makes it trivial to contribute package build > results. > </p> > -- http://www.lingcc.com
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