3 =head1 HOW TO MIRROR CPAN
5 As of this writing the single purpose for this distribution is to
6 provide a backbone for the CPAN.
8 The idea is to get a handful backbone nodes that mirror directly from
9 PAUSE and a second layer that mirrors from them. Targetting at a
10 mirroring interval of 20 seconds.
12 The rsync daemon on PAUSE runs on port 8732 and you need a password to
13 access it. There is a second rsync daemon running on the standard port
14 873 but it has very limited access policies to leave the bandwidth for
17 If you have username and password you can mirror directly from PAUSE.
18 If you haven't and maintain a public CPAN mirror, ask me for one.
19 Otherwise pick your best CPAN mirror with an rsync server and try the
20 same script below for getting the quickest update cycle possible.
22 You find a list of potential rsync servers at
23 http://cpan.perl.org/SITES.html#RSYNC
25 The first thing you should prepare is the CPAN tree itself on your
26 disk. The source where you take it from does not matter that much.
27 Take it from where you always took it. The setup I suggest is to
28 mirror authors/ and modules/ with this program. And once per day or
29 per week or so do a traditional rsync from that old school mirroring
30 host, maybe excluding authors/ and modules/.
32 The loop is something like this:
34 $ENV{USER}="sandy"; # fill in your name
35 $ENV{RSYNC_PASSWORD} = "secret"; # fill in you passwd
37 use File::Rsync::Mirror::Recent;
39 File::Rsync::Mirror::Recent->new
41 ignore_link_stat_errors => 1,
42 localroot => "/home/ftp/pub/PAUSE/$_", # your local path
43 remote => "pause.perl.org::PAUSE/$_/RECENT.recent", # your upstream
44 max_files_per_connection => 863,
45 tempdir => "/home/ftp/tmp", # optional tempdir to hide temporary files
49 port => 8732, # only for PAUSE
54 'omit-dir-times' => 1, # not available before rsync 3.0.3
57 verboselog => "/var/log/rmirror-pause.log",
58 )} "authors", "modules";
59 die "directory $_ doesn't exist, giving up" for grep { ! -d $_->localroot } @rrr;
61 my $ttgo = time + 1200; # pick less if you have a password and/or consent from the upstream
63 $rrr->rmirror ( "skip-deletes" => 1 );
65 my $sleep = $ttgo - time;
67 print STDERR "sleeping $sleep ... ";
74 Don't forget to fill in your user name and password.
76 You see the 'skip-deletes' and guess, this is mirroring without doing
77 deletes. You can do it with deletes or you can leave the deletion to
78 the other, the traditional rsync loop. Worry about that later.
80 You see the option 'max_files_per_connection' which I filled with 863
81 and you need to find your favorite number. The larger the number the
82 faster the whole download goes. As you already have a mirror, you
83 probably want to take 10 or 20 times times that much. CPAN is at the
84 moment (2009-03) consisting of 142000 files. This option chunks the
85 downloads into piecemeal units and between these units the process
86 takes a peek at the most recent files to download them with higher
89 The localroot parameter contains your target directory. Because only
90 the authors/ and the modules/ directory are hosted by the PAUSE, you
91 need the loop over two directories. The other directories of CPAN are
92 currently not available for downloading with
93 File::Rsync::Mirror::Recent.
95 The 'port' is only needed for users who have a password for PAUSE,
96 other rsync servers listen on the rsync server port and the option can
99 The timeslice in the while loop above needs to be large enough to let
100 the rsync server survive. If you choose a random rsync server and are
101 not an rsync server yourself please be modest and choose 1200. Choose
102 less if you're offering rsync yourself and have a fat pipe, and
103 especially if you know your upstream can manage it. If you have a
104 PAUSE password choose 20 seconds. We will watch how well this works
105 and will adjust this recommendation according to our findings.
107 Set the key 'verbose' to 0 if you have no debugging demands. In this
108 case you want to omit the 'sleeping $sleep ...' noise further down the
111 Set the key 'verboselog' to your favorite progress watcher file. This
112 option is underdeveloped and may later be replaced with something
113 better. Note that the program still sends error messages to STDERR.
115 You can leave everything else as it stands. Start experimenting and
116 let me know how it works out.