Re: Advice about GuixSD on Serveraptor?

[Thomas Danckaert]

From: Leo Famulari <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Advice about GuixSD on Serveraptor?
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:53:35 -0400

> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 04:46:20PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > So what I'm doing here is trying to provide Serveraptor with a 
> > GuixSD
> > image that they'd offer to users.
> >
> > People could regenerate the image themselves, but it would be 
> > difficult
> > to verify that it matches what is offered by Serveraptor.
>
> And to clarify my previous question: Should this QEMU image be 
> created
> by me, or should it be created by a Guix maintainer as part of the 
> Guix
> release process?

Hi,

to add my 2 cents: I think it would be fine if you provided the 
image, if you are confident that it works.

When GuixSD becomes widely available on various hosting providers, 
the Guix maintainers cannot provide all those images (or guarantee 
their correctness) anyway (I imagine that typically an employee of 
such a service would create the image?).  Even now, when you provide 
an image to Serveraptor, you have no way to verify if Serveraptor 
provides the same image to their users (I think?).

Once Serveraptor provides the image you created (or any other GuixSD 
image) to its users, the responsibility lies with them.  
Serveraptor's users will have to trust Serveraptor (and, if they use 
your image, Serveraptor has to trust you, but it sounds like they 
already do :-) ).

Thomas