Re: Update on x.org

2013-03-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Cyril Roelandt skribis: > I cannot build xorg-server, though. I'm getting this error: My understanding is that the server side is not fully baked yet, but the client side libraries are. Ludo’.

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Using GNUnet for binary package distribution

2013-03-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Christian Grothoff skribis: >>> gnunet-update is not yet finished, we're currently planning to revise >>> some internal part that gnunet-update will depend on (stream); still, >>> help in moving this area along would be of course welcome. >> >> So what would you think of submitting this idea for

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Using GNUnet for binary package distribution

2013-03-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Christian Grothoff skribis: > On 03/22/2013 01:25 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: [...] >> OK. Wouldn’t using the AFS service be a bottleneck, in terms of >> availability and bandwidth? My impression is that it might be OK for >> small updates like those of GNUnet itself, but not for a full distro

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Using GNUnet for binary package distribution

2013-03-22 Thread Christian Grothoff
On 03/22/2013 01:25 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi, Sree Harsha Totakura skribis: For authentication, we intend to use GPG with gnunet-update. The idea is that the gnunet-updater would search for updates using GNUnet's File Sharing service and downloads meta-data files. It then verifies if t

Re: DreamOS

2013-03-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Nikita Karetnikov skribis: > Yesterday I read this paper [1] which describes how a generalization > can be used to boost performance and improve UX. Nice paper. > I don't see a way to implement anything similar without rewriting the > entire system from scratch. But I may be wrong. Wh

Re: [PATCH] gnu-maintenance: Improve 'official-gnu-packages'; add the related procedures.

2013-03-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Brandon Invergo skribis: > FYI we just moved the last/next-contact information into a separate file > in Womb called contact-activity.txt, so I'd imagine that it will be > removed from the gnupackages.txt file at some point. OK, thanks for the heads-up. It’s not essential for our purposes anywa

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Using GNUnet for binary package distribution

2013-03-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Christian Grothoff skribis: > Well, the GNUnet DHT expects that the data source periodically > refreshes the values by re-issuing the PUT; without that, it cannot > work. Sure. > Furthermore, you need to consider that DHTs are typically only useful > for small data pieces (think <= 64k), not fo

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Using GNUnet for binary package distribution

2013-03-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Sree Harsha Totakura skribis: > For authentication, we intend to use GPG with gnunet-update. The idea > is that the gnunet-updater would search for updates using GNUnet's File > Sharing service and downloads meta-data files. It then verifies if the > meta-data files are signed by a trusted

Re: [PATCH] gnu-maintenance: Improve 'official-gnu-packages'; add the related procedures.

2013-03-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nikita Karetnikov skribis: > But it doesn't work. These lines rise an error: > > + (cons (gnu-package-descriptor > +(inherit (first state)) > +((eval (match-field str) > + (interaction-environment)) str

Re: [PATCH] gnu-maintenance: Improve 'official-gnu-packages'; add the related procedures.

2013-03-22 Thread Brandon Invergo
> (define %package-list-url >(string-append "http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/"; > "viewvc/*checkout*/gnumaint/" > "gnupackages.txt?root=womb")) > > +(define-record-type* > + gnu-package-descriptor > + make-gnu-package-descriptor > + > + gnu-package-descrip