Arch Linux Historical Archive

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_Archive#Historical_Archive for general documentation.

Usage

You need to configure the Internet Archive client first: https://archive.org/services/docs/api/internetarchive/quickstart.html#configuring

The script uploads all files for a given package name to archive.org:

./upload_pkg_internetarchive.py /srv/archive/packages/l/lucene++

To upload all packages or at least a large subset, combine find and parallel:

find /srv/archive/packages -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type d | parallel --bar -j16 ~/upload_pkg_internetarchive.py > result.txt

Or use:

find /srv/archive/packages -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type d -exec "/home/archive/archive-uploader/upload_pkg_internetarchive.py" {} +

The script outputs to stdout any package name it couldn't completely upload. This may be due to archive.org load issues or rate limiting. It also maintains a database so that you can run it again against all files. Files that have already been uploaded will be skipped automatically.

How it works

• for the given package name, walk the filesystem on orion to find all files (both *.pkg.tar.xz and *.sig)

• parse .PKGINFO from the most recent package in this list to extract the pkgdesc, license, and upstream url

• upload all files in this list to archive.org

• if one of the files fails to upload, report the package name to stdout. The script needs to be run again for this package name. The status is recorded in an sqlite database and used to skip successful uploads on the next run.