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

[Christian Grothoff]

On 03/22/2013 01:25 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sree Harsha Totakura<address@hidden>  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 key (which is user-configurable)
> > and proceeds with the download of actual binaries.
>
> 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.

We won't be using the *anonymous* file-sharing for this.

> For Guix, downloading binaries is an option that is only worthwhile if
> it’s faster than building locally.

Of course.

-Christian