https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/apt-on-ipfs
A Docker image that installs ubuntu packages via IPFS
https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/apt-on-ipfs
apt docker ipfs mirror
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A Docker image that installs ubuntu packages via IPFS
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/apt-on-ipfs
- Owner: ipfs-shipyard
- License: mit
- Created: 2019-03-21T17:44:14.000Z (about 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2019-03-27T15:44:41.000Z (about 6 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-13T13:06:27.999Z (20 days ago)
- Topics: apt, docker, ipfs, mirror
- Language: Dockerfile
- Homepage:
- Size: 6.84 KB
- Stars: 19
- Watchers: 10
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: Readme.md
- License: LICENSE
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# IPFS apt mirror
A docker image that installs ubuntu packages via IPFS rather than using http to talk to a mirror
Full credit to https://github.com/JaquerEspeis/apt-transport-ipfs for laying the ground work for this.
See the [Dockerfile](Dockerfile) for a breakdown of how it works, and [sources.list](sources.list) for the current IPFS hash of the mirror.
Run it with the following commands, may take a few minutes depending on how many nodes are connected
```shell
git clone https://github.com/andrew/apt-on-ipfs
cd apt-on-ipfs
docker build .
```
## Running your own mirror
Note: This requires ~2.5TB of free disk space and over 36 hours to complete the first time, subsequent runs take ~3 hours.
Initial setup commands, run once:
```shell
apt-get update
apt-get install -y git wget
wget https://dist.ipfs.io/go-ipfs/v0.4.19/go-ipfs_v0.4.19_linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar xvfz go-ipfs_v0.4.19_linux-amd64.tar.gz
mv go-ipfs/ipfs /usr/local/bin/ipfs
mkdir -p /data/apt
export IPFS_PATH=/data/.ipfs
ipfs init
```
Mirroring commands, can be ran repeatedly to keep up to date:
```shell
rsync -q --recursive --times --links --safe-links --hard-links --exclude "Packages*" --exclude "Sources*" --exclude "Release*" --exclude "InRelease" rsync://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu /data/apt/
rsync -q --recursive --times --links --safe-links --hard-links --delete --delete-after rsync://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu /data/apt/
export IPFS_PATH=/data/.ipfs
hash="$(ipfs add -r --quieter --raw-leaves /data/apt | tail -n1)"
ipfs name publish "$hash"
```
The first time you run the mirroring commands, a new [IPNS](https://docs.ipfs.io/guides/concepts/ipns/) will be output, update [sources.list](sources.list) with your IPNS and then after each sync that IPNS will be updated to point to the latest IPFS hash of the mirror.
You may wish to pick a different ubuntu mirror that is geographically closer to your server for faster rsyncing: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors