Gx: A package management tool built around IPFS

Re:Gx: A package management tool built around IPFS by colemickens on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @03:22PM (#11347426)

I'm really hoping someone adds an IPFS binary cache system for Nix/NixOS.

(Nix already packages tons of Go/python/javascript/rust libraries and binaries)

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Re:Gx: A package management tool built around IPFS by mitchty on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @03:48PM (#11347622)

I've wanted exactly this for ages. Would make reproducible builds and distributions simple.

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Re:Gx: A package management tool built around IPFS by Ericson2314 on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @04:27PM (#11347935)

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/296#issuecomment-7234731...

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Re:Gx: A package management tool built around IPFS by CMCDragonkai on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @11:09PM (#11350301)

We also need an IPFS source cache, not just binary cache. It would be an immutable source mirroring for all of our dependencies allowing reproducible builds from source (which is sometimes required as not all compiler flags are specified by default). I've had tons of problems buildings from source in Nix because upstream source urls break.

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Re:Gx: A package management tool built around IPFS by david_ar on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @10:28PM (#11350151)

https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/51

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