.\" $OpenBSD: mirroring-ports.7,v 1.12 2004/01/11 23:53:08 pvalchev Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2000 Marc Espie .\" .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE DEVELOPERS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES .\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. .\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE DEVELOPERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, .\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT .\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, .\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY .\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .Dd February 19, 2000 .Dt MIRRORING-PORTS 7 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm mirroring-ports .Nd how to build a mirror for ports distfiles .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm OpenBSD Ports Collection offers some powerful tools to mirror software sources. The ports infrastructure provides a .Ar mirror-maker target that can be used to build a Makefile to facilitate mirroring distfiles. This target builds .Ic ${DISTDIR}/Makefile , which can be used on almost any Unix-like machine to mirror .Ox distfiles. The variable .Ev RECURSIVE_FETCH_LIST can be set to .Sq Yes if port dependencies should also be recorded. .Pp A sample Makefile entry is formatted like this: .Bd -literal all:: audio/tracker/tracker-5.3 \&.PHONY: audio/tracker/tracker-5.3 audio/tracker/tracker-5.3: tracker-5.3.tgz tracker-5.3.tgz: $F @MAINTAINER="espie@openbsd.org" \\ SITES="ftp://ftp.uni-trier.de/pub/unix/audio/tracker/ " \\ CIPHER="sha1" CKSUM="b0973d6a9c363caebd3a71547412f42b0681f323" \\ exec ${FETCH} "$@" .Ed This Makefile is usually invoked by the user from the directory where they wish to mirror distfiles, with variables .Ev FETCH and .Ev F set on the command line, e.g., .Bd -literal -offset indent cd mirror && make -k -j 5 -f path_to_makefile FETCH=fetch_script .Ed .Pp Targets are set up so that each port is referenced by its full name, and retrieves all its distfiles. The default .Ar all target is used to retrieve all distfiles. Targets .Ar ftp and .Ar cdrom can be used to retrieve all distfiles necessary to build ftp and cdrom packages, respectively. Actual fetching is usually invoked with a parallel-make option, so that several retrievals through ftp can proceed simultaneously. .Pp The .Ev F variable can be set to a dummy name, or a recent filename, to force re-fetching of anything which is older than the filename. Its intended use is to force re-fetching existing files, or to checksum all files. .Pp The .Ev ${FETCH} script should be supplied by the user, and will download and verify the archive file. It must obey the following variables: .Bl -tag -width DIST_SUBDIR .It Ev MAINTAINER Port maintainer, used to report errors, .It Ev ERROR Some ports problems can be detected while building the Makefile, in which case this variable will be set to a proper error message. .It Ev DIST_SUBDIR See .Xr ports 7 for more details. The .Ev ${FETCH} script is responsible for creating this subdirectory and cd'ing to it before performing the actual fetch. .It Ev SITES A list of sites to try for fetching the distribution file. .It Ev CIPHER The checksumming utility to use for verifying the distribution file. It will normally be set to .Xr sha1 1 unless you tinker with .Ev PREFERRED_CIPHER while building the mirroring Makefile. .It Ev CKSUM The corresponding checksum. If neither .Ev CIPHER nor .Ev CKSUM nor .Ev ERROR are set, the distribution file needs not be checked. .El .Pp A standard fetch strategy is to try all sites in order: whenever the distribution file is found, download it; verify the checksum; erase the file and try the next site if it doesn't match. .Pp Mirroring sites should update their master Makefile fairly often. Activities a proper mirror should offer (in order of decreasing importance): .Bl -tag -width XXXXXXXXX .It Mirror new files Use a proper fetch script to download missing files, .It Run Pa ${PORTSDIR}/infrastructure/fetch/link-checksums This script creates permanent hardlinks that preserve distfiles against checksum changes. .It Verify all checksums All checksums should be verified from time to time, and maintainers notified of persistent discrepancies, .It Check mastersites liveliness Use a tool such as .Sq mirror to check that the master sites haven't fallen off the Earth. Even though the first site in the site list is the most important site, good mirrors will scan all sites and report all problems, .It Remove old files To gain room this, the mirror should maintain a list of .Sq active files (easy enough, just provide a fetch script that just lists the file names), and remove files that are no longer active. Since .Ox releases happen every six months, this delay should be longer than that. .El Sample scripts are provided in the .Pa ${PORTSDIR}/infrastructure/fetch directory. .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width XXXXXXXXX -compact .It Pa ${DISTDIR}/Makefile Main mirroring Makefile .It Pa ${PORTSDIR}/infrastructure/fetch/fetch-all Sample script usable to retrieve distfiles. .It Pa ${PORTSDIR}/infrastructure/fetch/check-all Sample script to check all distfiles checksums. .It Pa ${PORTSDIR}/infrastructure/fetch/link-checksums Populating checksums subdirectories with links, to guard against shifting checksums. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr ports 7 .Sh HISTORY This infrastructure was introduced for .Ox 2.7 by Marc Espie, with feedback from Bob Beck, Todd Fries, Camiel Dobbelaar, and a few other people. .Sh CAVEATS Changing checksums is a recurring problem that is outside the direct control of the .Ox Project. Some software distributors change distribution files without warning, without changing the file name proper. Once the problem has been identified, the port maintainer should usually contact the software author to fix the problem, or, if the software author is unresponsive, the maintainer should use .Ev DIST_SUBDIR to provide some state to guard against shifting checksums. .Pp However, a more robust approach is also needed, so that ports users can depend on distfiles mirrors to carry what they need irregardless of those synchronization issues. The .Pa link-checksums script creates another access to the distfiles, indexed through the actual checksums that the files should match. Provided mirroring is run sufficiently often, together with .Pa link-checksums , two versions of the same distfile with respective checksums cksum1 and cksum2 will be available under the names .Pa ${DISTFILES}/sha1/cksum1/distfile and .Pa ${DISTFILES}/sha1/cksum2/distfile . .Pp Starting revision 1.281, if .Ev REFETCH is set to true, .Pa bsd.port.mk will try to retrieve files under that naming scheme as a last resort.