Hello Robin,
On 2020-04-05 13:38:43 +0200 wrote Robin Broda
On 4/5/20 1:19 PM, @RubenKelevra wrote:
I was wondering if there's interest from you or the team to implement native IPFS support in pacman?
The idea is, to extend the current database definition, by an additional field, which holds the Content-ID necessary to fetch a package from IPFS.
If the database gets extended by an additional field for every new network layer people come up with, where do we draw the line?
This needs a solution that does not require the database format to be altered to suit protocol-specific metadata.
I understand the concerns. The Content-ID itself is build around the 'multihash' idea, where the string not only contains a checksum, but also which checksum algorithm was used - to support multiple checksum algorithms at the same time and also to be compatible with new checksum algorithms. The definition of the Content-ID[0]. Behind the Content-ID is a JSON file, which get's fetched from IPFS. This contains entries of the individual blocks of a file, with a size and a Content-ID for this block. So the data-structure is extremely simple and could be used with any protocol. [0] https://github.com/multiformats/cid Best regards, Ruben