On 02/28/2012 06:12 AM, Marc Weber wrote: > And then? Do the same as current buildfarm does? Duplicate work by > building subversion revisions? > > Or be a "slave" of the official buildfarm (in which case all users have > to trust your server as well?)
Hi, I have been thinking about a distributed solution to this. There are two things to be solved: 1) creating manifests (signed pairs of derivation and output hashes) 2) distributing the data (manifests simply, store paths differentially) Note that 2) is easy as it needs almost none computational power, so we could use some well-known solution like bittorrent. As you noticed, 1) has a problem with trust but this IMO also has distributed solutions like the web-of-trust stuff. You would always check if someone you trust have signed what you need (or at least k independent sources you trust). If not, you build it (there could also be some kind of locking not to duplicate work too much). As always, I've got loads of ideas but no time to implement them... By the way, I've also got some idle HW which could be used, If you find a suitable way. Vlada _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
