piedar / ipfs-distfiles-gentoo

Use the Interplanetary File System (https://ipfs.io/) to download gentoo source files.

What?

Use the Interplanetary File System to download gentoo source files.

How?

First, put this repo into /usr/portage/distfiles and fill it with symlinks to /ipfs/Qm... If you already have a repo under $DISTDIR, take a backup!

cd "${DISTDIR:-/usr/portage/distfiles}"
git init
git remote add ipfs-distfiles https://github.com/piedar/ipfs-distfiles-gentoo
git fetch --all
git reset --hard ipfs-distfiles/master

Next, launch the ipfs daemon to mount /ipfs and serve the symlinks. (The fusermount -u commands will clean up mountpoint in case of failure.)

ipfs daemon --mount ; fusermount -u /ipfs ; fusermount -u /ipns ;

Notes

If the /ipfs mount fails, portage will detect it as a checksum failure and overwrite the symlinks. This is nice as a fallback, but once the ipfs daemon is running again do git reset --hard ipfs-distfiles/master to restore the links.

Use the scripts under ./.bin/ to import more files into the repo.

todo

• more ebuilds
• rewrite import script to python or nim