Parabola GNU/Linux-libre mirror online

For the Parabola users among us – https://jeweet.net/repo/parabola

If you want to use the mirror, open /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and add the following line on top of the file to give it the highest priority:
Server = https://jeweet.net/repo/parabola/$repo/os/$arch

Currently the bandwidth is limited to 50mbit/s.

For a fresh Parabola installation you can pick one of the images from https://jeweet.net/repo/parabola/iso/. If you want to run your computer in complete freedom, take a look at https://libreboot.org for more info.

Creating a mirror – to Parabalo-wiki page >>
If you want to contribute by running your own mirror, you can use this bash script. Starting the script manually in a terminal will cause it to sync. When it detects no TTY, which means it’s probably running as a cron-job, it will only sync if the lastupdate file is changed.

#!/bin/bash

# Directory where the repo is stored locally. Example: /srv/repo
target="/srv/repo"

# Directory where files are downloaded to before being moved in place.
# This should be on the same filesystem as $target, but not a subdirectory of $target.
# Example: /srv/tmp
tmp="/srv/tmp"

# Lockfile path
lock="/var/lock/syncrepo.lck"

# If you want to limit the bandwidth used by rsync set this.
# Use 0 to disable the limit.
# The default unit is KiB (see man rsync /--bwlimit for more)
bwlimit=0

# The source URL of the mirror you want to sync from.
source_url='rsync://repo.parabola.nu:875/repos/'

# An HTTP(S) URL pointing to the 'lastupdate' file on your chosen mirror.
lastupdate_url='https://repo.parabola.nu/lastupdate'

#### END CONFIG

[ ! -d "${target}" ] && mkdir -p "${target}"
[ ! -d "${tmp}" ] && mkdir -p "${tmp}"

exec 9>"${lock}"
/usr/bin/flock -n 9 || exit

rsync_cmd() {
        local -a cmd=(/usr/bin/rsync -rtlH --safe-links --delete-after ${VERBOSE} "--timeout=600" "--contimeout=60" -p \
                --delay-updates --no-motd "--temp-dir=${tmp}")

        if /bin/stty &>/dev/null; then
                cmd+=(-h -v --progress)
        else
                cmd+=(--quiet)
        fi

        if ((bwlimit>0)); then
                cmd+=("--bwlimit=$bwlimit")
        fi

        "${cmd[@]}" "$@"
}


# if we are called without a tty (cronjob) only run when there are changes
if ! /usr/bin/tty -s && [[ -f "$target/lastupdate" ]] && /usr/bin/diff -b <(/usr/bin/curl -Ls "$lastupdate_url") "$target/lastupdate" >/dev/null; then
        # keep lastsync file in sync for statistics
        rsync_cmd "$source_url/lastsync" "$target/lastsync"
        exit 0
fi

rsync_cmd \
        --exclude='*.links.tar.gz*' \
        --exclude='/theme' \
        --exclude='/.htaccess' \
        --exclude='/update-mirror.sh' \
        "${source_url}" \
        "${target}"

You should run this script regularly to keep your mirror up to date by configuring a cron job to syncronise as a user with write permissions on $target and $temp. To run the above script every hour, create the file /etc/cron.d/parabola. Edit the file so the first number is a random number between 0-59, otherwise all mirrors will sync at the same time.

38 * * * * www-data [PATH_TO_YOUR_SCRIPT]/update-mirror.sh

Finally, you can set up a webserver such as Apache or nginx to serve files from $target to the public.

If you like to style your directory-listing, here is a small example: https://jeweet.net/repo/source/parabola-repo-style/.
Rename both htaccess-example files to .htaccess and theme-example folder to theme. Place all files in your $target dictory and make sure Apache doesn’t ignore the .htaccess file. Edit the files so they match your set-up.

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