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Great, thanks! ipfs isn't useful yet, but will ping back here when it is.

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@ianonavy Hey! We will soon be at an alpha, and getting an AUR package set up might be nice to have.

Thoughts @jbenet ?

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@whyrusleeping let's reopen + worry about this once we actually have the alpha.

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As long as the build process from git is straightforward, it should be pretty trivial to set up a "-git" AUR package. If we want to release a stable package that is released alongside the version numbers and installs binaries to /usr/bin instead of $GOPATH/bin, we can do that as well.

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The package should probably include an ipfs.service file. It might also make sense to create a dedicated ipfs system user to run the service as (that's how I have it setup). It seems like there's no benefit to running per-user ipfs nodes, if you have root access, but if that was wanted a secondary [email protected] could be included. Also an ipfs.socket could be included, to support socket activation.

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@ianonavy ipfs is useful now!

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@jbenet It appears I orphaned the AUR package and Freso has picked it up. Glad to hear this project is still going strong. :)

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@ianonavy thanks :) -- do you know Freso's account on github?

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https://github.com/freso

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FYI: go-ipfs package has been promoted to the official Arch repository. It will make ipfs usage at Linux Arch even more easier and pleasant.

I have the same question as @edrex. ipfs should be really a system service with blocks stored under /var/. But it looks like ipfs client expects to see config files under ~/.ipfs/. Is there a way to tell client the new location for configs/block/logs files?

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Is there a way to tell client the new location for configs/block/logs files?

Yes: #1872

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This can be closed. btw, the official package includes a Systemd user unit, which can be set to start when the user logs in.

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Yeah, there's an official package in Arch Linux's community repository: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/go-ipfs/ - and I will still be maintaining the -git package at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/go-ipfs-git as well. (And yes, I'm @Freso here on GitHub. ;))

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@Freso @ianonavy @anatol @edrex this is all great to hear!! Thanks very much for shipping this.

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Sweet! Thank you for making it! Let's make sure to add a reference to this package on the distributions page //cc @dignifiedquire .

Closing this issue :)

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