Universal package builder system

To develop the next generation software collection builder and packager that is also truly cross-platform. Think FreeBSD ports with several new cutting edge features and enhancements, but with equal support to Linux, Solaris(like), MacOS, and all BSD platforms.

It is not a reinvention of pkgsrc. The approach is new and not based on make.

There are three main components of Ravenports.

1. Source ports: This component, known as "ravensource" is not seen or utilized by regular users. It resembles the ports tree seen in FreeBSD and pkgsrc, but only at the individual port directory level. It is not arranged in categories. The contents of each port directory is used to generate a port buildsheet.

2. Conspiracy: The conspiracy repository contains all the buildsheets, separated into 256 bucket directories. These single files are the complete recipe for building the software for which they were created. These buildsheets are not meant to be viewed directly, as their information can be queried by the ravenadm tool. The conspiracy buildsheets are "compiled" from ravensource and getting the latest ports is accomplished by updating the repository. This README is contained within the Conspiracy repository.

3. Raven administration tool: The administration tool for Ravenports is "ravenadm". It can query the ports for many types of information like a database. It can build packages in parallel (think synth interface). It controls the build environment such that it is the same across users, even if those users are on different operating systems. Raven also plays a part in the development of ports and features inbuilt lint, sanity checks and compile checks. If somebody develops a buildsheet that passes all checks and builds, it likely can be incorporated in the source tree as submitted, especially if the submission process includes automated testing on all supported platforms.

Actually, not really. Make is pretty good at the actual building of the port. A significant chunk of FreeBSD's build logic will be retained (although improved upon). Raven will generate a makefile dynamically depending on options and variants requested for the purpose of building and packaging the software. The logic will be straight-forward without recursion or shell forking. Keeping this logic at ${RAVENBASE}/share/mk will ensure adaptability.

The options handling and other complex logic that affect package dependencies will be done by the ravenadm internally. This will enable speedups by magnitudes as compared to other ports systems.

Please visit http://www.ravenports.com for additional and current information.

The contents of this repository are available under the conditions defined by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) license:

Copyright (c) 2017-2019, The Ravenports Project.

Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR
ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

Currently the repositories are only available via HTTP. The SHA256 digests are listed before for confidence the bootstrap pkg(8) binaries are the ones we generated.

11f8493ebfc55b4c461065a883f26ee6f9ec52162785d08f2f8580db6235caaf raven-dragonfly-50-bootstrap.tar.gz
8e0a6b1fdedcc6f9c6ef89c98030d79bde52450b56e09aa51c7fbc9eefd134e6 raven-dragonfly-54-bootstrap.tar.gz
4589a6262d79f7111353bb68b49afe4d0fcdfa7b743413acaf3333de3a2da38b raven-freebsd64-bootstrap.tar.gz
77ee4ac0e3e3f09bc92bdd38a6bbb76689cdb32877e6ee4a3546cc5f3b0efd6f raven-linux-bootstrap.tar.gz
92b6c5d8dc4d5e0e419dfa16d35d88f6b2b31d705fd09bcc0a8e17cd0ec4dda8 raven-sunos-bootstrap.tar.gz

All Ravenports repositories are signed by the following key.

-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEA4rhIOkp+aJS04AOz/V0S
gKOg7Ol/rUTUeHUwzbE45vvGq+M7s00MKDhzdU6QBPnhRLaPdRf8jJNCcNIEIjQ4
fON43BNJfJX1q5T1jnT4Dd+pyyejPv3gOQdDARYt4risfeey3BBYQMuOghGoCNDt
DYPsWaBUPHUR+Um96U0CYHl3ZeAbovq466Wn3OuYX3gvg4QPaMPKmx1fgI3V9bDA
KuOBD5JEVzhJgtzv33e7C0murs4WWJpRv3eSinZsUKoFbt4F4To+YrIXnOQPrNdr
u25Z5hSBdNT5gM43JKWWqM57Zi60Poj5nG6p+GxGePWrraOQY68mgDEScTrJLIXj
UwIDAQAB
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----

An example of use is to save the contents to /raven/etc/pkg/keys/ravenports.key. The pkg repository configuration file might look like this:

> cat /raven/etc/pkg/repos/01_raven.conf
Raven: {
    url            : http://www.ravenports.com/repository/${ABI},
    pubkey         : /raven/etc/pkg/keys/ravenports.key,
    signature_type : PUBKEY,
    priority       : 0,
    enabled        : yes
}