openpkg/lsync.8

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:30:05 +0200

author
Michael Schloh von Bennewitz <michael@schloh.com>
date
Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:30:05 +0200
changeset 715
c10fb90893b9
parent 13
cb59d6afeb61
permissions
-rw-r--r--

Correct out of date build configuration, porting to Solaris 11 network
link infrastructure and new libpcap logic. This additionally allows for
device drivers in subdirectories of /dev. Correct packaged nmap
personalities and signatures to work out of the box. Finally, hack
arpd logic to properly close sockets and quit on TERM by repeating
signaling in the run command script. Sadly, all this fails to correct
the run time behaviour of honeyd which fails to bind to the IP layer.

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michael@13 124 .\" ========================================================================
michael@13 125 .\"
michael@13 126 .IX Title "LSYNC 8"
michael@13 127 .TH LSYNC 8 "OpenPKG" "LSYNC(8)" "OpenPKG"
michael@428 128 .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
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michael@428 131 .nh
michael@13 132 .SH "NAME"
michael@428 133 openpkg lsync \- Access Layer Synchronization Tool
michael@13 134 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
michael@13 135 .IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
michael@13 136 \&\fBopenpkg lsync\fR
michael@13 137 [\fB\-\-version\fR|\fB\-v\fR]
michael@13 138 [\fB\-\-help\fR|\fB\-h\fR]
michael@13 139 [\fB\-\-init\fR|\fB\-i\fR]
michael@13 140 [\fB\-\-nop\fR|\fB\-n\fR]
michael@13 141 [\fB\-\-quiet\fR|\fB\-q\fR]
michael@13 142 [\fB\-\-trace\fR|\fB\-t\fR]
michael@13 143 [\fB\-\-local\fR|\fB\-l\fR]
michael@13 144 [\fB\-\-uninstall\fR|\fB\-u\fR]
michael@13 145 [\fB\-\-root=\fR\fIroot\fR]
michael@13 146 [\fB\-\-pkgdir=\fR\fIpkgdir\fR]
michael@13 147 [\fB\-\-subdirs=\fR\fIsubdir\fR[,\fIsubdir\fR,...]]
michael@13 148 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
michael@13 149 .IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
michael@13 150 This program activates software packages which were locally
michael@13 151 installed in a sub-directory of a package hierarchy (located under
michael@13 152 \&\fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/) by managing symbolic links in an access layer
michael@13 153 (located under \fIroot\fR/) corresponding to package installation
michael@13 154 files (found in \fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/pkgname/subdir/) which need to be
michael@13 155 collected in global directories (located under \fIroot\fR/subdir/).
michael@13 156 .PP
michael@13 157 The purpose of this is that individual packages can be installed and
michael@13 158 deinstalled seperately without interfering with other packages while
michael@13 159 all packages as a whole still can be treated like a single package
michael@13 160 (installed into the access layer).
michael@13 161 .PP
michael@13 162 The
michael@13 163 actual creation of symbolic links is as following (\*(L"foo\*(R" indicating an
michael@13 164 arbitrary file; \*(L"bar\*(R" indicating an arbitrary package name):
michael@13 165 .IP "\fIroot\fR\fB/bin/\fRfoo \-> \fB../\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/bin/\fRfoo" 4
michael@13 166 .IX Item "root/bin/foo -> ../pkgdir/bar/bin/foo"
michael@13 167 This activates the user executeable
michael@13 168 \&\fIroot\fR\fB/\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/bin\fR/foo as \fIroot\fR\fB/bin/\fRfoo. It can
michael@13 169 be found by the shell by placing \fIroot\fR\fB/bin\fR into the environment
michael@13 170 variable \f(CW\*(C`PATH\*(C'\fR (\fBPATH="..:\fR\fIroot\fR\fB/bin:.."\fR).
michael@13 171 .IP "\fIroot\fR\fB/sbin/\fRfoo \-> \fB../\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/sbin/\fRfoo" 4
michael@13 172 .IX Item "root/sbin/foo -> ../pkgdir/bar/sbin/foo"
michael@13 173 This activates the system executeable
michael@13 174 \&\fIroot\fR\fB/\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/sbin\fR/foo as \fIroot\fR\fB/sbin/\fRfoo. It can
michael@13 175 be found by the shell by placing \fIroot\fR\fB/sbin\fR into the environment
michael@13 176 variable \f(CW\*(C`PATH\*(C'\fR (\fBPATH="..:\fR\fIroot\fR\fB/sbin:.."\fR).
michael@13 177 .IP "\fIroot\fR\fB/man/man\fR\fIN\fR\fB/\fRfoo \-> \fB../\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/man/man\fR\fIN\fR\fB/\fRfoo" 4
michael@13 178 .IX Item "root/man/manN/foo -> ../pkgdir/bar/man/manN/foo"
michael@13 179 This activates the Unix manual page
michael@13 180 \&\fIroot\fR\fB/\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/man/man\fR\fIN\fR\fB/\fRfoo as
michael@13 181 \&\fIroot\fR\fB/man/man\fR\fIN\fR\fB/\fRfoo. It can be found by the \fIman\fR\|(1) tool
michael@13 182 by placing \fIroot\fR\fB/man\fR into the environment variable \f(CW\*(C`MANPATH\*(C'\fR
michael@13 183 (\fBMANPATH="..:\fR\fIroot\fR\fB/man:.."\fR). Keep in mind that \fBopenpkg lsync\fR
michael@13 184 activates any files found in the \fBman/man\f(BIN\fB\fR sub-directory of the
michael@13 185 package, but the \fIman\fR\|(1) tool usually requires the filename scheme
michael@13 186 foo\fB.\fR\fIN\fR before it can find the file.
michael@13 187 .IP "\fIroot\fR\fB/info/\fRfoo \-> \fB../\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/info/\fRfoo" 4
michael@13 188 .IX Item "root/info/foo -> ../pkgdir/bar/info/foo"
michael@13 189 This activates the \s-1GNU\s0 info page \fIroot\fR\fB/\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/info/\fRfoo
michael@13 190 as \fIroot\fR\fB/info/\fRfoo. It can be found by the \fIinfo\fR\|(1) and \fIpinfo\fR\|(1)
michael@13 191 tools by placing \fIroot\fR\fB/info\fR into the environment variable
michael@13 192 \&\f(CW\*(C`INFOPATH\*(C'\fR (\fBINFOPATH="..:\fR\fIroot\fR\fB/info:.."\fR). Keep in mind that
michael@13 193 \&\fBopenpkg lsync\fR activates any files found in the \fBinfo/\fR sub-directory of the
michael@13 194 package, but the \fIinfo\fR\|(1) and \fIpinfo\fR\|(1) tools usually require the filename
michael@13 195 scheme foo\fB.info\fR before it can find the file.
michael@13 196 .IP "\fIroot\fR\fB/include/\fRfoo \-> \fB../\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/include/\fRfoo" 4
michael@13 197 .IX Item "root/include/foo -> ../pkgdir/bar/include/foo"
michael@13 198 This activates the C header \fIroot\fR\fB/\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/include\fR/foo
michael@13 199 as \fIroot\fR\fB/include/\fRfoo. It can be found by the C/\*(C+ compilers
michael@13 200 by adding \fIroot\fR\fB/include\fR to their include search path (\fBcc ..
michael@13 201 \&\-I\fR\fIroot\fR\fB/include\fR \fB...\fR). Keep in mind that \fBopenpkg lsync\fR activates any
michael@13 202 files found in the \fBinclude/\fR sub-directory of the package, but the
michael@13 203 C/\*(C+ compiler usually by convention use the filename scheme foo\fB.h\fR.
michael@13 204 .IP "\fIroot\fR\fB/lib/\fRfoo \-> \fB../\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/lib/\fRfoo" 4
michael@13 205 .IX Item "root/lib/foo -> ../pkgdir/bar/lib/foo"
michael@13 206 This activates the C library \fIroot\fR\fB/\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/lib\fR/foo
michael@13 207 as \fIroot\fR\fB/lib/\fRfoo. It can be found by the C/\*(C+ compilers (and
michael@13 208 the linker they use) by adding \fIroot\fR\fB/lib\fR to their library search
michael@13 209 path (\fBcc .. \-L\fR\fIroot\fR\fB/lib\fR \fB...\fR). It can be found by the Unix
michael@13 210 Dynamic Loader by adding \fIroot\fR\fB/lib\fR to the environment variable
michael@13 211 \&\f(CW\*(C`LD_LIBRARY_PATH\*(C'\fR (\fBLD_LIBRARY_PATH="..:\fR\fIroot\fR\fB/lib:.."\fR).
michael@13 212 Keep in mind that \fBopenpkg lsync\fR activates any files found in the \fBlib/\fR
michael@13 213 sub-directory of the package, but the C/\*(C+ compiler usually require the
michael@13 214 filename scheme \fBlib\fRfoo\fB.a\fR and the Unix Dynamic Loader the filename
michael@13 215 scheme \fBlib\fRfoo\fB.so\fR before they actually can use the file.
michael@13 216 .PP
michael@13 217 It is obvious that more sub-directories in a package installation
michael@13 218 might exist \*(-- for instance \fBshare/\fR, \fBvar/\fR, \fBlibexec/\fR, etc. But
michael@13 219 \&\fBopenpkg lsync\fR intentionally does not link files in those directories into
michael@13 220 corresponding directories of the access layer, because those files do
michael@13 221 not require that they are located in a global area in order to be used.
michael@13 222 So \fBopenpkg lsync\fR only creates the access layer for files where a common area
michael@13 223 is required for (easy) use.
michael@13 224 .SH "SPECIAL FEATURES"
michael@13 225 .IX Header "SPECIAL FEATURES"
michael@13 226 There are two special features supported by \fBopenpkg lsync\fR:
michael@13 227 .IP "\fBRun-Command Files\fR" 4
michael@13 228 .IX Item "Run-Command Files"
michael@13 229 \&\fBopenpkg lsync\fR on startup implicitly reads command line options from
michael@13 230 \&\f(CW\*(C`.lsyncrc\*(C'\fR files. They are searched in all parent directories and in
michael@13 231 the callers home directory. Their contents is prepended to the list of
michael@13 232 given command line options.
michael@13 233 .IP "\fBMultiple Package Versions\fR" 4
michael@13 234 .IX Item "Multiple Package Versions"
michael@13 235 \&\fBopenpkg lsync\fR skips all directories under \fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/ which contain
michael@13 236 the pattern \*(L"\-[0\-9]\*(R" in their directory name. On the other hand,
michael@13 237 \&\fBopenpkg lsync\fR follows also symbolic links under \fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/.
michael@13 238 This can be used for installing multiple versions of a package and
michael@13 239 switching between them. For instance, if version 1.0 of package
michael@13 240 \&\*(L"foo\*(R" is installed into directory \fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/foo\-1.0,
michael@13 241 version 1.1 into \fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/foo\-1.1 and version 1.2 into
michael@13 242 \&\fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/foo\-1.2, \fBopenpkg lsync\fR does skip all three. To enable
michael@13 243 version 1.1 one just creates a symbolic link \fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/foo
michael@13 244 pointing to foo\-1.1. Then \fBopenpkg lsync\fR picks up the files in
michael@13 245 \&\fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/foo\-1.1. If you want to temporarily upgrade to
michael@13 246 foo\-1.2, all you have to do is to change the symlink pointing from
michael@13 247 foo\-1.1 to foo\-1.2.
michael@13 248 .IP "\fBTemporarily Deactivated Package\fR" 4
michael@13 249 .IX Item "Temporarily Deactivated Package"
michael@13 250 One can deactivate a package \*(L"foo\*(R" by going to \fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/foo/
michael@13 251 and running \*(L"openpkg lsync \-\-local \-\-uninstall\*(R", of course. Alternatively
michael@13 252 one can set the sticky bit on the directory \fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/foo.
michael@13 253 Then \fBopenpkg lsync\fR also skips the package. Alternatively, assume
michael@13 254 package \*(L"foo\*(R" as a whole should not be deactivated, but its
michael@13 255 \&\fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/foo/lib directory (usually because this directory
michael@13 256 unfortunately contains non-library files), one just sets the sticky bit
michael@13 257 on \fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/foo/lib.
michael@13 258 .SH "OPTIONS"
michael@13 259 .IX Header "OPTIONS"
michael@13 260 .IP "\fB\-\-version\fR, \fB\-v\fR" 4
michael@13 261 .IX Item "--version, -v"
michael@13 262 Display program version information only.
michael@13 263 .IP "\fB\-\-help\fR, \fB\-h\fR" 4
michael@13 264 .IX Item "--help, -h"
michael@13 265 Display program usage information only.
michael@13 266 .IP "\fB\-\-init\fR, \fB\-i\fR" 4
michael@13 267 .IX Item "--init, -i"
michael@13 268 Create an initial access layer hierarchy under \fIroot\fR.
michael@13 269 .IP "\fB\-\-nop\fR, \fB\-n\fR" 4
michael@13 270 .IX Item "--nop, -n"
michael@13 271 No Operation \*(-- causes \fBopenpkg lsync\fR to not perform any filesystem
michael@13 272 operations. In conjunction with \fB\-\-trace\fR you can at least see what
michael@13 273 would be executed.
michael@13 274 .IP "\fB\-\-quiet\fR, \fB\-q\fR" 4
michael@13 275 .IX Item "--quiet, -q"
michael@13 276 Forces \fBopenpkg lsync\fR to perform the operations quietly, i.e., without any
michael@13 277 verbose messages.
michael@13 278 .IP "\fB\-\-trace\fR, \fB\-t\fR" 4
michael@13 279 .IX Item "--trace, -t"
michael@13 280 Forces \fBopenpkg lsync\fR to show what filesystem operations are performed.
michael@13 281 .IP "\fB\-\-local\fR, \fB\-l\fR" 4
michael@13 282 .IX Item "--local, -l"
michael@13 283 This restricts the operations to a local package area. This option can
michael@13 284 only be used if you are physically staying below a package sub-directory
michael@13 285 under \fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/. For instance, when you are staying in
michael@13 286 \&\fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/bar or \fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/bar/bin and use \fB\-\-local\fR,
michael@13 287 all operations are restricted to the package \*(L"bar\*(R".
michael@13 288 .IP "\fB\-\-uninstall\fR, \fB\-u\fR" 4
michael@13 289 .IX Item "--uninstall, -u"
michael@13 290 This performs only package uninstallation operations, i.e., only
michael@13 291 symbolic links are removed. This can be used to completely empty the
michael@13 292 access layer. Additionally it is very useful in combination with
michael@13 293 \&\fB\-\-local\fR in order to uninstall a particular package without having to
michael@13 294 remove its files.
michael@13 295 .IP "\fB\-\-root=\fR\fIroot\fR" 4
michael@13 296 .IX Item "--root=root"
michael@13 297 Sets the root directory where the access layer and package subdirectory
michael@13 298 is located. The default can be determined by running \f(CW\*(C`openpkg lsync \-\-help\*(C'\fR
michael@13 299 (see section \*(L"Current configuration\*(R").
michael@13 300 .IP "\fB\-\-pkgdir=\fR\fIpkgdir\fR" 4
michael@13 301 .IX Item "--pkgdir=pkgdir"
michael@13 302 Sets the sub-directory under the root directory where packages are
michael@13 303 located. The default can be determined by running \f(CW\*(C`openpkg lsync \-\-help\*(C'\fR (see
michael@13 304 section \*(L"Current configuration\*(R").
michael@13 305 .IP "\fB\-\-subdirs=\fR\fIsubdirs\fR[,\fIsubdir\fR,...]" 4
michael@13 306 .IX Item "--subdirs=subdirs[,subdir,...]"
michael@13 307 Sets one or more sub-directories of the access layer on which \fBopenpkg lsync\fR
michael@13 308 should act. The default can be determined by running \f(CW\*(C`openpkg lsync \-\-help\*(C'\fR
michael@13 309 (see section \*(L"Current configuration\*(R").
michael@13 310 .SH "RESULTS"
michael@13 311 .IX Header "RESULTS"
michael@13 312 This program uses the following return codes on exit: 0 (operation
michael@13 313 successful), 1 (system error), 2 (command line error) and 3 (other user
michael@13 314 error).
michael@13 315 .SH "HISTORY"
michael@13 316 .IX Header "HISTORY"
michael@13 317 The idea of filesystem access layers consisting of symbolic links
michael@13 318 pointing to actual package installation areas is a rather old one. It
michael@13 319 dates back to the early days of Unix and was implemented many times over
michael@13 320 the last decades. One of many implementation was \fBGenOPT\fR, written by
michael@13 321 Ralf S. Engelschall for sd&m GmbH & Co \s-1KG\s0, Munich in 1992. The name
michael@13 322 indicates the programs purpose: to generate symbolic links in an access
michael@13 323 layer which was located under \f(CW\*(C`/opt\*(C'\fR. \fBGenOPT\fR was very flexible, but
michael@13 324 hence also very complex. Because of lack of documentation it was never
michael@13 325 released and so only used at sd&m and on all machines which were under
michael@13 326 control of Ralf S. Engelschall.
michael@13 327 .PP
michael@13 328 For Cable & Wireless, Munich, the old \fBGenOPT\fR principle was again
michael@13 329 needed to manage the \f(CW\*(C`/cw/local\*(C'\fR area on their servers. For this in
michael@13 330 November 2000 the functionality of \fBGenOPT\fR was revised, heavily
michael@13 331 stripped down and finally implemented from scratch. The result is the
michael@13 332 current \fBopenpkg lsync\fR.
michael@13 333 .SH "AUTHOR"
michael@13 334 .IX Header "AUTHOR"
michael@13 335 .Vb 3
michael@13 336 \& Ralf S. Engelschall
michael@13 337 \& rse@engelschall.com
michael@13 338 \& www.engelschall.com
michael@13 339 .Ve

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