The HaikuPorter tool is provided to ease the fetching, patching and building of source code. It can be compared to a slim version of Gentoo Portage. Each port contains the Haiku specific patches to the original source code. It fetches the original source code, applies the Haiku-specific patches, builds the software, and packages it.

Detailed information available on the wiki.

A single machine installation is for building individual packages.

HaikuPorts installation can be done via the following command sequence:

 $ git clone https://github.com/haikuports/haikuporter.git
 $ git clone https://github.com/haikuports/haikuports.git --depth=10
 $ cd haikuporter
 $ cp haikuports-sample.conf /boot/home/config/settings/haikuports.conf # Copy the config file
 $ lpe ~/config/settings/haikuports.conf # and edit it

• ./haikuporter mesa -j4

• ./haikuporter mesa --all-dependencies -j4

A multi-node cluster is for mass building large numbers of packages.

• docker pull ghcr.io/haikuports/haikuporter/buildmaster
• mkdir ~/buildmaster.x86
• docker run -v ~/buildmaster.x86:/data -it -e ARCH=x86 ghcr.io/haikuports/haikuporter/buildmaster
• Provision builders
  • createbuilder -n test01 -H 127.0.0.1
  • copy generated public key to builder
  • builderctl health
• exit
• Copy the packages from a nightly to ports/packages on the buildmaster
• docker run -v ~/buildmaster.x86:/data -it -e ARCH=x86 ghcr.io/haikuports/haikuporter/buildmaster
• buildmaster everything

buildmaster.x86 will persist between build runs. Feel free to exit, update, or erase the container without losing your work.

• Install requirements
  • pip install paramiko or dnf install python-paramiko
  • buildtools dependencies: autoconf, flex, bison, texinfo, zlib-devel
  • Haiku host tools dependencies: libstdc++-static, libcurl-devel
• Bootstrap the buildmaster instance
  • git clone https://github.com/haikuports/haikuporter.git
  • ./haikuporter/buildmaster/bin/bootstrap_buildmaster.sh ...
• Configure your builders within instance ports tree with createbuilder
  • cd buildmaster_<arch>/haikuports
  • example: ../haikuporter/buildmaster/bin/createbuilder -n mybuilder01 -H 127.0.0.1
• Validate and provision your builders
  • ../haikuporter/buildmaster/bin/builderctl health
  • ../haikuporter/buildmaster/bin/builderctl provision
• ../haikuporter/buildmaster/bin/buildmaster everything

• Checkout Haikuporter and Haikuports, matching the paths specified in createbuilder on buildmaster side
• Add the public key from the buildmaster to authorized_keys
• useradd sshd ; ssh-keygen -A
• Enable PermitRootLogin in /system/settings/ssh/sshd_config and make sure the path to the sftp server is correct
• install xz_utils_x86, lzip_x86 (required for extracting packages), patch, dos2unix (required for PATCH() function in some packages)