The toolset has been split off, and is now here available.

pacman.store

Current status and any announcements as well as a maintaince log can be found here

Under the domain pacman.store are package mirrors provided via the IPFS-Network. If you choose this as your mirror, Pacman will download the files from a local http-proxy and the accessed files will be shared with the IPFS-Network.

If you run on multiple machines in your local network IPFS will exchange the files locally rather than downloading the same file multiple times from the internet.

The data is hold and shared by a collaborative cluster, where everyone can participate.

Cluster members

Member ID	Server	Location	Internet-Provider	AS	Provider
`12D3KooWDM4BGmk...`	`odin.pacman.store`	Nuremberg, Germany	netcup	AS197540	@RubenKelevra
`123...`	`loki.pacman.store`	Nuremberg, Germany	netcup	AS197540	@RubenKelevra
`123...`		Guthrie, Oklahoma	Cox Communications Inc	AS22773	@teknomunk
`123...`	`vidar.pacman.store`	Vilnius, Lithuania	UAB Interneto vizija	AS20080814	@RubenKelevra
`12D3KooWN9pSnzm...`	`heimdal.pacman.store`	Mumbai, India	Oracle Corporation	AS31898	@RubenKelevra
`123...`		~ Tokyo, Japan		AS7506	anonymous

Import Server uptime (since 2020-07-02)

Service	Status
IPv6
IPv4
IPFS-Port
IPFS-Cluster-Port

Join the Cluster

If you want to join and contribute bandwidth and disk space, feel free to do so. The repo-size is about 70 GB. Since the data is rotating quite quickly it's recommended to enable the Garbage Collector with --enable-gc for your IPFS-Daemon.

The default storage size for IPFS needs to be altered in the config file.

If you're running your cluster follower on a computer with a static ip or a static domain name: Feel free to add it to the list of peer_addresses in the JSON config files, found in collab-cluster-config. Then send a pull request.

Details how to join the cluster are available on the collab cluster website.

tl;dr: You need a locally running IPFS node. Your IPFS StorageMax setting may needs to be adjusted. You need ipfs-cluster-follow, then run:

ipfs-cluster-follow pkg.pacman.store run --init cluster.pkg.pacman.store

Use the pkg cache with Pacman

Install ipfs on each of your systems, you need set it up and and start it as a service.

Then add the following to your /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist as first entry:

# IPFS
Server = http://x86-64.archlinux.pkg.pacman.store.ipns.localhost:8080/$repo

Since directory lookups may be slower over IPNS, you may need to set the pacman option --disable-download-timeout for fetching dbs or packages.

FAQ

If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the IPFS-chat on matrix, after consulting the FAQ

Get an ISO/bootstrap image from IPFS

ISO and bootstrap files are also stored on the cluster:

ArchLinux ISO/bootstrap images

IPFS-URL	Content
`/ipns/cluster.pkg.pacman.store`	cluster setup domain which holds the config file
`/ipns/x86-64.archlinux.pkg.pacman.store/`	regular mirror (without '/os/x86_64/' subfolders in path)
`/ipns/x86-64.archlinux.pkg.pacman.store/iso/`	current ArchLinux ISO+bootstrap images