Good evening!
Below is a list of GSoC ideas for GNU Guix.
Guix people: you’re welcome to put your name as the mentor of one of the
projects below, and to propose other ideas.
Thanks!
Ludo’.
Supporting binary package distribution through GNUnet
GNU Guix provides a transparent binary/source deployment model. A
server can claim: “hey, I have the binary for
/nix/store/v9zic07iar8w90zcy398r745w78a7lqs-emacs-24.3!”, where the
base32 string uniquely identifies a build process. If you trust that
server to provide genuine binaries, then you can grab them instead of
building Emacs locally.
The “traditional model” has been to have a build farm build and serve
binary packages. In that model, users trust the build farm to provide
authentic binaries.
The project aims to provide a practical decentralization
distribution mechanism for binary packages, using GNUnet’s file sharing service. In that
model, users would be able to automatically share binaries they have
built locally, and to install binaries built by other users. This is
part of a broader goal of disintermediation among users,
and between users and upstream software developers.
Problems to be solved http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-03/msg00085.html";>include
the authentication of binary packages, user privacy, and the development
of a user interface that makes it trivial to contribute package build
results.
Mentor: mailto:l...@gnu.org";>Ludovic
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Package management from Emacs
The goal of this project is to write a complete package management
user interface for use in GNU Emacs. The UI would provide the
same functionality as the guix package command, but using an
interface similar to that of package.el.
Mentor: mailto:l...@gnu.org";>Ludovic
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Porting Guix to GNU/Hurd
GNU Guix currently supports building packages for GNU/Linux only. The
goal of this project would be to allow it to cross-build and build
packages for GNU/Hurd, and to provide a virtual machine image that
boots into such a system.
This would involve packaging Mach/Hurd/MiG/libc, adjusting allowing
cross-compilation to GNU/Hurd, cross-compiling the “bootstrap
binaries” for GNU/Hurd, and then working towards support for GNU/Hurd
in the (gnu system) Guix modules. This last point would
allow a VM image of the complete system to be built.
Mentor: mailto:l...@gnu.org";>Ludovic
Courtès
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