Remove arguments to set postmarketOS and Alpine mirrors. The current implementation is broken with the way the mirrors are now configured: The current implementation fills a list, but the mirror configuration code expects a string. It is not longer possible to set an arbitrary amount of mirrors for the postmarketOS mirror. The benefit is that we don't have comma separated values in the config file anymore but instead just simple strings. Now it is possible to have one proper mirror for aports, pmaports and pmaports_systemd, and one _custom one to override each of these. We already have too many options in "pmbootstrap -h", and changing a mirror is more of a base configuration that you do once and maybe change a few times, but don't need to be able to set it with each pmbootstrap run. Users are not going to write this out manually on their command-lines, it only makes sense in scripts and wrappers for pmbootstrap, and there you could as well use another method (as now described in docs/mirrors.md) to set the mirrors. Less important, but another reason is that using "-mp" (two letters as short argument) isn't really elegant.
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Mirror Configuration
A typical postmarketOS installation has one Alpine Linux mirror configured as well as one
postmarketOS mirror. As Alpine's CDN mirror is used by default, it should be suitable for most
users. The postmarketOS mirror can be configured interactively with pmbootstrap init
, under
"additional options".
Find the currently selected mirrors in the output of pmbootstrap status
, as well as in
/etc/apk/repositories
for initialized chroots and finished installations.
Advanced
Some advanced use cases are supported by configuring the mirrors directly, either by running the
non-interactive pmbootstrap config
command or by editing pmbootstrap_v3.cfg
. Find the lists of
mirrors at mirrors.alpinelinux.org and
mirrors.postmarketos.org.
Change the mirrors non-interactively
$ pmbootstrap config mirrors.alpine http://uk.alpinelinux.org/alpine/
$ pmbootstrap config mirrors.pmaports http://postmarketos.craftyguy.net/
Reset to default works as with all config options:
$ pmbootstrap config -r mirrors.alpine
$ pmbootstrap config -r mirrors.pmaports
Disable the postmarketOS mirror
This is useful to test bootstrapping from pure Alpine:
$ pmbootstrap config mirrors.pmaports none
$ pmbootstrap config mirrors.systemd none
Use _custom
mirrors
For all repositories, it is possible to add _custom
entries, for example
pmaports_custom
in addition to pmaports
. If these are set, then pmbootstrap
creates addition entries infront of the real mirrors in
/etc/apk/repositories
. This is used by BPO
to build packages with a WIP repository enabled in addition to the final
repository, but could also be used if you have another custom repository that
you want to use in addition to the postmarketOS binary package repository.
$ pmbootstrap config mirrors.pmaports_custom http://custom-repository-here