MSYS2 main server

Provides:

• nginx service for serving installers and packages (ports 80 and 443)
• rsync server for serving the same (port 873, and 874 with SSL)
• daemon and http server for staging repositories
• letsencrypt integration
• packages web interface and API
• redirects from non-canonical domains
• network statistics
• instant messaging bridge between Discord and Gitter / OFTC IRC

Setup

• Clone.
• The storage is pointed to /srv/msys2repo so /srv/msys2repo/mingw/x86_64/ should exist.
• Run docker compose up -d.
• Assign DNS records for:
  • repo.msys2.org
  • packages.msys2.org
  • mirror.msys2.org
  • autobuildcontroller.msys2.org
  • msys2.org
  • NOT www.msys2.org, that is on GitHub Pages.
  • msys2.com
  • www.msys2.com
  • msys2.net
  • www.msys2.net
  • mingw-w64.net
  • www.mingw-w64.net
  • mingw-w64.org
  • NOT www.mingw-w64.org, that is on GitHub Pages.

Test

Once everything is set up and running you can run python3 -m unittest tests/test_server.py which checks if all services are up and responding properly.

Staging repositories

Add to /etc/pacman.conf above the official repositories like this:

[staging]
Server = https://repo.msys2.org/staging/
SigLevel = Never

[mingw32]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.mingw32

[mingw64]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.mingw64

[msys]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.msys

Local Development

There is a docker-compose variant in docker-compose.dev.yml that only uses HTTP and contains a limited set of services for local testing.

It provides the following services:

• http://localhost:8080 - the traefik dashboard
• http://repo.localhost:9090/
• http://repo.localhost:9090/staging/
• http://mirror.localhost:9090/
• http://packages.localhost
• rsync://localhost/builds

Run it with docker compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml .... For example docker compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml run repo and then access http://repo.localhost:9090/