Hi Shivam,
Welcome to Guix! I think that Sneakernet-esque distribution of substitutes is very interesting and something that was also talked about at the Guix Days before FOSDEM 23 (Guix with no internet and air-gapped machines). Some comments on the proposal: - You might want to refer to the document "SQLite for ERIS block storage" (https://eris.codeberg.page/eer/sqlite.xml). - I think the user experience as described in the proposal could be improved/might not quite work as expected: - Reading from a disk maybe should happen automagically if it can be detected (and is enabled in some configuration). This might also require some integration with udisks. The complexity of this should not be underestimated. - Writing packages to a USB stick seems to be closer to a `guix publish` or `guix deploy`. Maybe you can read up on those commands and think of a nice way to publish or deploy a set of packages to a USB stick. This is also relevant for publishing to other p2p networks (IPFS, GNUnet, etc.). - Maybe the Narinfos also need to packed onto the USB drive? How would an air-gapped computer otherwise know which substitute to get? Also have a look at the nar-herder tool (https://git.cbaines.net/guix/nar-herder) by Christopher Baines (in CC). -pukkamustard Shivam Madlani <shivammadla...@gmail.com> writes: > Hey everyone! > I am Shivam Madlani, an undergraduate at DAIICT, India. I want to participate > in GSoC'23 for The GNU > organization. The project "Decentralized substitute distribution" in GUIX > amused me and I want to > apply for the same. I have been in touch with the project mentor > -pukkamustard for over a month > now and started learning more about the project. I'm very excited to work on > this project as it lies in > my interests. > > I've drafted a proposal on this project and I aim to add a transport > protocol-Sneakernet. This will allow > the substitutes to be air-gappable. My approach is to use SQLite to store the > ERIS encoded substitute > in the external drive using a custom schema. This is just a brief overview of > the project and more > details are included in the attached proposal. > > I would love to hear your thoughts and reviews on my proposal and hopefully > improve it by filling in > any missing key points. > > Thank you, > Shivam > > [4. application/pdf; GSoC'23 GUIX proposal.pdf]...
