Vincent Ambo <taz...@yandex-team.ru> writes: > How would another official server be different from the various mirrors > of the official servers that already exist? > > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/Mirrors > > These use the same signing keys (as they are just mirroring), so there's > no additional trust infrastructure needed for them.
The GCD conflates build farms and mirrors. I thought each mirror needed to build and sign substitutes themselves but it seems that is not the case. I will update it. The main point is to get users to start using mirrors: requiring people to manually set --substitute-urls and look up the URLs on LibrePlanet is not ideal. > Maybe an alternative (and for now - cheaper) approach would be something > like surfacing these more actively in the documentation, and maybe > developing a site that shows the respective "weather" for these caches, > to indicate that they are indeed still up-to-date. Yes there would definitely need to be a way to verify the mirrors are working/correct. Also there should be a process to determine which mirrors are reliable enough to be listed in the installer or documentation.
