Software Repository Mirrors may be a good start for IPFS

[kehao95]

Hi, I think hosting public software repository mirrors such as pip-mirror or apt-mirror is a good start for IPFS.
How can we make this possiable?

[koalalorenzo]

Check this discussion here!

Ubuntu archive on top of IPFS

Hello! Last week on the Costa Rican hackerspace we started a project to serve the ubuntu archive on top of IPFS. The idea is that it should be faster to download deb packages from an IPFS node that is closer than the closest mirror of the archive. For example, in Costa Rica there is only one mirror, hosted at the university in the middle of the country. On the jaquerespeis there are at least 50 Ubuntu users spread on different geographic areas. If we get all of them to use the ipfs mirror, we…

[MirceaKitsune]

I am very interested in a RPM mirror, for distributions that use RPM repositories for software management. Please consider making both a rpm and deb repository for Linux users who want to maintain the up-to-date daemon system-wide.

[DaniellMesquita]

Both pip, rpm and deb is bad for deduplication.
Git/pijul and IPFS should get objects inside compressed files and other binaries. Similar thing were proposed by @jbnet here: Ubuntu archive on top of IPFS

[DaniellMesquita]

@kehao95
There is a project for implementing pip packages on IPFS: Dpip - Python Package Index (pypi.org) on IPFS

[DaniellMesquita]

There’s also NPM-on-IPFS and GX package manager. But package managers will not work feasibly without deduplication. That’s why I propose Common Bytes: (draft) Common Bytes - standard for data deduplication